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where britain full of these a parent's worst nightmare that they live all over the girls of them to sticks oakland chicago it happens every day not. all but sometime soon to float like the river in mont of the deadliest cities in the u.s. most victims are children and. can follow here what the fitting to the other. this man builds crosses for loss to the epidemic of gang violence here it's almost can do to just stay alive for you know 5 courses here we have to do things not to make it so 7 people we've lost a bike to a city of chicago. clifton

boonie mike founder is a loving grandfather back in the day he used to be a leading gang member he spent 27 years in jail for crimes ranging from assault to 1st degree murder after half a life behind bars others had filled his place and taken over the block once part of the problem moonie now spends his days as a gang intervention coordinator his porch is practically his office without him it would be too dangerous for us to film there. is no thora t. here his word carries weight it takes a courageous person. to stuff they speak to the kids they see a group of kids in the street don't you know going through all misspeak at 2 or they'll walk around. and that makes us a difference in me and the average person because i go to class but try to make an

honest living here it often takes holding down several underpaid jobs of once this man has been cleaning cars for 30 years 10 dollars each. but if you're looking for fast cash you sell drugs for the street gangs. that's the hard job for me to go visit them to stop selling drugs and to go get a legitimate job so today i can tell them that it's a lot. harder i did try to get them to see the low carb it's not that it's to 50 just guessed it it's not going to be the. short life in the fast lane for most here that's all they better know. most of their fathers are absent in jail showing their childhood their moms barely able to make ends meet. growing up here often means falling for the wrong heroes. it takes says several days on the

streets before we meet gang members willing to talk to us. if you want to be a part of it is like you seen what we're going to be hostile and we want to know is that is your choice going to be a part of so you see the reason that we take every risk that we take it is to wait . but did you get the choice if you mess around out if. you think you have the right i'm choosing to take the risk because of i like to fix my. car drives out they negotiate a price and hand over the drugs that's how it is here hustling instead of homework . what might look like just a couple of friends hanging out can quickly take a turn for the worse almost everyone here is armed jonathan started selling drugs at the age of 13 his to tuesday tell the stories of friends he lost mike allen g.

who was killed in front of his school when he was just 16 like real good times the chicago they paid. just doesn't. get hurt i love my brother i'm a big brother no go get back to me he is but there's been a lot of there's been a lot of reviews going no one no the best the best revis i've ever put to it was. me that the whole world go blank. at 57 boonie again watches over his streets but this time it's different he's knowing joe but life has made him wiser he still does manage to get through to everyone some couldn't even imagine life without gang bang bang in a cool is the life that we chose at the end of day because we had no choice you know choice in a matter of feeling love no matter who it is a what a film about he had a choice in his life we go. pushed to the point where we had no choice so we had to get out who do we here. and for many that means hanging around all day. young

people here have lost their faith in life having anything better to offer than the streets. in the gangs they try to be the family they never had for each other. was this that would be like in his hometown this is love to just see al your house for this music i'm not going to let the it's not but so what we gain by winning it we really have family over why we all kill for each other over the why we don't do we not we'll do for monday i believe is the day soon as the day game a we will we do is we there nothing to do i never know or you see oh yeah ok. he's the one who builds the crossroads for chicago's lost children greg zane asher is a retired carpenter for each life taken he sets up another cross together they form a growing memorial on the west side. greg himself suffered the tragic loss of 2

family members he knows what it's like to have a loved one stone and from here. with the times when you were there making the crosses is also a way for greg to be able to work through his own trauma. my nickname tried baby. heard it's hard in my shop i cry a lot marsha. oh. i've i feel like i'm bad to these people because i've had that loss. and. it all seems like nobody wants to talk about it to them i do. nobody wants to have a loss go unnoticed that mother that loved their game or like just say connor or. she loved him to a certain point something went wrong. but. once he's

finished making a cross greg leaves it behind for the family of the deceased to take with them like tyrone blake sr. even as a police officer he was unable to stop his own son from being drawn into the maelstrom of gang life and getting killed. they have no more or they have no you know. it's just hard to talk about is this. no regard for human life your. snow stretch out. they have no leadership so. it's just. not very nice to be. tyrone blake. junior did not live to see his 26th birthday.

cause. i. was i. call a points office fully rigged with 110 i am radio scanners and monitors this is where he tracks police dispatches night by night. listening in on police radio is not only legal in the us for the point it's a crucial part of his watch he's a freelance photojournalist who specialized in police operations the material he gathers he sells to local television stations for their crime related news. he has a range of contacts across the city he can send out collect footage and he also hits the road himself every night. here in chicago just like you can be anywhere where people are shooting at each other you know i work. for added protection.

some nights seems a little more dangerous than others sometimes they don't wear it but it certainly helps make me feel a little bit safer when we're out there and the violence has ticked up in chicago itself. classic downtown chicago with its imposing skyline of his world removed from the chicago lapointe works and he covers stories from the tougher side of town one that is rarely court on camera he's been on the job for 20 years now and seldom sleeps more than 5 hours a day if that. plus a. good cup of coffee sounds good. local t.v. stations pay between $150.00 and $300.00 for the footage he delivers although there are plenty of cases to cover poorly as he's known by police and gang members alike has to work hard for his money he's the city's number one police reporter and after

all these years he's still passionate about his job. here. is that. if you have fear you can't you can't properly cover the city of chicago i don't know if you have fear it's like if you were a war correspondent if you were assigned to afghanistan or iraq. this is the similar assignment at the end of the day every day someone is being shot in my life . so it isn't that much different than being a combat journalist that many times tonight is a quiet night and we already have several people shot a quiet night in most cities around the world there's nobody shot but in chicago a quiet night is a couple of people shot. in his car lapointe has 7 scanners tuned in to all the different emergency services radio systems covering emergency services. 47 he's divorced with 2 grown up children of his own his son also works for him and like

him is on the road night after night. hallie's 1st stop of the evening a woman on a man was shot and injured his movements are routine he wastes no time setting up his camera. the police have already roped off the area but even though they've known paulie for ages they make sure to keep him out a distance. make sure i look good one officer calls out to him. once the police have wrapped up paulie packs away his camera and continues on his journey the next crime scene is already waiting. for you as it gets warmer. bullets fly more violence as more the aggravation level creased as you increase the temperatures people just get crazier and crazier. when the hottest summer days when you get the most shootings people

are just. that the numbers in chicago have been really bad at that time that we've had weekends where we had 50 people shot. doesn't kill that happens more frequently than people might think that it's unfortunate for pauli but night is far from over. a new day johnson chicago's west and south sides and reveals just how rundown these neighborhoods really are. people who grow up here a crammed into underfunded schools and have few opportunities for career development any welfare and education programs are quickly discontinued if they fail to deliver the expected results fast. crumbling buildings toxic landscape it's the exact opposite of the american dream. unemployment is

rife the middle class moved out years ago poverty here is self-perpetuating. st welcome to news one of the few people local youngsters respect he's disappointed with the me get funding being provided to tackle the overwhelming problem. facing the community. it's worse it is serious. and afghanistan every day it's shootings and killings in this community and it's not a house at force anymore it's in sad and because it's weapon to a source says a ball now in my community you can go get a god quicker than you can bat at bi-lo juice. chicago proud to be home to barack obama the country's 1st african-american president and. tourists flock to its magnificent glittering downtown area most children from the west side have never even had

a glimpse of this picture perfect part of the city the gulf between black and white rich and poor is deeper here than in most other places in america one more reason why chicago is plagued by so much violence. back on the west side boonie doesn't take his eyes off his granddaughter he couldn't see his own kids grow up he was in jail. on. the street corner where boonie by streets for a little rain is known as the most dangerous in the area. and when temperatures rise so does the violence and with it the death toll on just 2 days in july and 2800 over 100 people was shot 15 fatally many victims were innocent bystanders who had nothing to do with the gangs i'm up i bought my mother got her i got bob bob bob not. an old acquaintance from the neighborhood here every.

one i do you care to see you're the gotta go buy one he seems intimidating at 1st but soon it's clear he has mental health problems and needs help i wasn't rude i was a good show so good too good i have a very old how do you. going to shoot up luckily it's just a colorful water pistol. no no. here man. otherwise the guns people carry here a real loaded and lethal. but this is this is an issue with our good military man. he did drugs don't last as much so he met leo and he out in the street just that at all that normally a person he approached like that when he got physical the them up or how to daily violence is the sad norm here 3 blocks down there's been

a real shooting only the shell casings remain strewn across the street as silent witnesses the victims 3 teenagers the shots were fired from a moving car in the afternoon just as school ended and the students were going home i'm upstairs in my house and i heard the kinds of somalia my kids were trapped on the floor it was a very scary says he's always he's always there for a. saturday night. live saturday kid's got to stay in the house they can come outside and play is a very bad situation. christian and they would have no money now and would like to go somewhere where i have no money now. that some residents are paralyzed by fear for their children's lives others have become numb to it whoever lives here has learned to survive. you stay aware but you don't feel scared or you would never come out the house. but just around.

this that this weekend this watch is so wow moves i mean my model is always there are positive people say from negative people who have nothing going on in my life have nothing to live for. just keep it moving i really don't try to associate with a lot of people ask streets where. the target of the of the stick is so this would be it's. just going well but this is the work of a good house that's what it. small memorials for the dead a constant reminder of the ever present danger in chicago there's a shooting every 4 hours every 19 hours a fatal while there are more guns and fewer police officers here than in most other u.s. cities and the police have a long standing reputation for racism it's an explosive mix of factors here in the

rap of it i had a guy. i can see just a bit that a quick prayer before setting to work the police have asked boone and other social workers for their help the police still have boonie registered as a gang member and often treat him unfairly he says but here they work hand in hand the violence is too severe for anyone sign to solve on a time. have. you got her right here is exam. i think you want to get together make up about the great work you go all right then go through the people living in a trust the social workers more than they do the least. that we could go to be our brothers got shot one not the survivor 30 year old in a $68.00 you. know that we are here

for them to. convince other younger people to put their. when young kids and teenagers die in the neighborhood people are more open to the message to me and his colleagues friends. they work for a youth development organization called bill which has been working to help at risk youngsters in chicago since 969. is part of a small team of experienced thanks gang members street veterans he and his colleague carlos were both gang leaders in the past. like. in those days they could never have imagined working together with each other on the other side. not how did it not on a mentality that if you're going to make there are no big different you and i was a different mentality you know. when we would know we when it came together in our

lives that actually we would been a part of the problem you know when i was there with the kids this news already station you know has a lot to do with it and they know there were solid individual family are down there and i look up to us and we try to change their lives and give them jobs something yeah. i got. them i am from well i mean you know we're going to leave right but at the end of the day if a team meeting at the offices of bill mooney and his colleagues. change ideas on how to get through to those they worry about most days right. and carlos know all too well just how hard it can be to find a job after leaving jail that. let him go so i filled as workers from all walks of life from college graduates turn social workers to people

whose university was the street. moonee has his very own method he approaches everyone in the community including its youngest residents and talks to them. so well with mike it. was out so he didn't see it right. he did. it's important that the kids trust him so that they can talk to him with everyone here knows bernie and he knows this is the only way to reach some of them especially those who aren't ready yet for the other activities and programs build office. the organization also offers discussion groups for juveniles with criminal records they're not his strictly voluntarily attendance as one of their parole conditions carlos leads the group today they're talking about their mothers. is not easy was 1st thing.

is how so appreciate your mother my you know some feign disinterest others shift on comfortably in their chairs talking about their emotions is something they've never really learnt to do we can we can help you guide you but you guys got to get worse inside you know what is it that you need so that most carlos the former gang leader who spent 25 years in jail talks openly about his emotions and his mother she never failed to visit me she never feel the same commissary money she never failed sent me pictures you know a family event you know filled to you know collect. she was always there. my home. 6 months into my bit yeah they looked out after. it was gone my girlfriends it was go. and that's the reality and that's why we do this you know to

give respect to our moms you know to show that we love and care for you could have disagreements you can be strong but going to the guys know my. people you saw his openness against the boys thinking so you know find a way for me i see you know you know i see always put. first. this is my protector. they say because my mom was both my mother for. she told me even though she had it's so sad a reason for me for both of us is to see always. make sure you sort if you do go on for a while i mean now she just got out of prison that's more oh i've seen her for 234 years and every time our delusions every time i did she was all drugged up and i

was like she was in the right my. story is that they are reluctant to recall that many are reluctant to hear carlos does listen offers the boy's options but he's well aware that ultimately they will have to fend for themselves back on the street . for. the only protection greg zaniest needs is a helmet he saw as an hammers away so that others won't forget chicago's loss kids . it's a labor of love that requires him to work every single day. and we've got the worst kind of cancer or any country could ever have gotten gun violence it's just that. it escalating nobody said. there is no cure for cancer well there is no cure here i am going to be going with that. like i can't keep up

with it. it's about a nation that's walked away from. it's about and i'm showing. of coming soon i'm going there not just with a cross and a heart and i got to get a hug that's my paycheck. 22 years ago greg found his father in law shot dead in front of his home since that day he's not only been a carpenter but also a chronicler of those chicago has lost your researches their stories keeps lists and tries to push his own pain away just 2 months ago one of his daughters died suddenly of an overdose. it's difficult for him to talk about it. i guess a root think that may daughter not me i must have a lot more work to do how right you are old i think this country will quickly go

into hell. in the 10 years the last 10 years of and especially the last 2 years. greg is inconsolable yet he tries to console others with his crosses. the boy with a gentle smile was tyree wives he lived to be 16. even young children can fall victim to chicago's violence there to protect them a crossing guards from the safe passage program. these women in bright yellow vests patrol the streets to try to keep kids safe not from cars but from bullets. they're armed with nothing but walkie talkie to call the police. violence on the way to school has dropped by one 3rd. since they started. still

whoever grows ampera could always be at the wrong place at the wrong time and get killed. police departments like this one and district 7 in englewood are places that most residents associate with problems problems with the police. randall lacey wants to change that everyone here knows her as miss ray well you know just for the 3 years after her daughter was stunned to death she was left to raise her grandkids on her own 2 years ago one of them was also killed. miss ray wanted to do her part to combat violence on the streets sun she founded the chess club.

i built my 1st mission and the one selling kids meet at the police station to play chess against members of the community and police officers for years. didn't quite so allow the families every time you. think about this if this all could drag the day at wrigley brother with greg name all the way to the rest of. yourself you know the find the side of the police. and the same thing go for the police officer also what the answer is to sit down without you or do. you. hear children do out what you're not. plus whoever is playing chess is not out on the street says miss wright she also thinks the playing chance teaches the. kids

to solve their problems with reason and not by pulling a gun and resorting to violence. well my dad told me it's over but it's way too new for life so like if there was like blackie we chose to go the other way to shoo away to go over to there's a good bed and head into it as you go that way or that. i think that. the officers aren't allowed to talk to journalists chicago's police have avoided any kind of coverage since the escalation in violence. in the rough and tough west side playing chess here is like an oasis of calm the kids say they feel safe even the youngest ones outside it's a different story and try. to make like military families have this was true he. should be here now like his wife

she didn't need to be like that i decided that we like to have planted trees. nor did i feel. a lot of mothers in the neighborhood have lost children miss ray tells us they can all sympathize with one another they know how it feels. still she's determined not to let life get her down if only for the sake of the children. my daughter was killed i just love all of my friends that are in this is always good. to have to say. that there is so i could miss they focus on my walls i was too good. it's night time and boony is at home his eyes aren't really following the t.v.

that they're glued to his farm he's always on call in case one of the kids wants to reach him sometimes in the middle of the night. 27 years of jail couldn't break his spirit he married his wife patricia after he was released this above the couch is a picture of his idols iraq and michelle obama martin luther king bob marley muhammad ali but african-americans are far from being at the reins they're still being systematically disadvantaged his work on the streets is also the fight for equal opportunities. the schools are afraid that you. the polies is scared of the you the parents are scared of the you and you for a scared nobody. and this is the most courageous generation of young black and brown people that this world will ever see is right here so it

might take in their back and read directing their courage to a real fight a fight that's going to help us as a people. just think of the what could be accomplished. bernie trying to keep his own son orlando out of the gang life but he was in jail when he finally got out orlando was already in at the age of 17 sentenced to 55 years for mada if there's one thing bernie regrets and it's losing his son to the streets. he grew up in the community that i was part of the destruction my reputation so all he grew up all his life was. it means to portray. it thinking he was living up to my. so when he had a conflict instead of bizarre. he resolved it in a way. and that was the light and it calls him 55 years of his life.

with a street is open for business 247 cars drive up a door opens drugs are exchanged and the car drives off again maybe dooney is trying to help these kids because his own son is so out of reach. orlando now a grown man is calling from prison boonie hasn't seen him you know for 25 years as a former convict he isn't allowed to visit his son in prison but he has plans for orlando once he gets sacked. well i want to get bad and you've got the budget you got your projects you got the perfect storm just like me . but for now all he can do is watch from his front porch because the kids on the

street make the same mistakes he did. mistakes that really come with the 2nd child . patrol cars emergency lines show the way for paul the point he's reached his 2nd crime scene of the night. a few hours ago 2 young men in their early twenty's were shot. out of a moving car on a street full of traffic. that could easily have been more victims says paul of. innocent people who just happened to be passing by. which. there is no time of day in chicago when it doesn't happen like i said you

know really there's a shooting every 4 hours in chicago so you know it's rare i don't know that we've gone to sea without it shooting for 2 years now i think it's been 2 years and not a day without a shooting or a 24 hour period without a shooting so you know again crime is down homicides and shootings have have brought down about 25 percent but we still have 75 percent that is still happening so it's going to take a little more work i think at this pizza i would say for. tonight is fairly quiet he says to 3 am fully has time to swing by his office here it's safe to take off his bulletproof vest. in his very own headquarters continues listening to the police radio and directing his staff here remain alert and ready to return to the streets until morning. hallie has lived with this inverted shadow for the past 20 years. and he still gets

upset by the events he covers. the 14 or 13 year olds 12 year olds the reason why they're brought into a gang life because they can't get in trouble as an adult so they're recruiting young kids into these gangs so they can commit the shootings and then they get out of the you know like a youth camp when they're 18 years old so they're not there at the spend the rest of their life in jail for killing someone so you find yourself we had one time we had a child who is 12 years old 12 and the gang was looking for him to kill him because he shot someone else it was one of the biggest stories we had in the beginning of my career was horrible to think that 1st of all that they recruited in years this child in the way they did and then they killed them which is why foley says he won't quit not tonight not any time soon. the same goes for bernie he's attending yet another funeral but here too he finds time to speak to

troubled youngsters timeless in his efforts to get them back on track. he finds them and they find him for boonie his job and private life inseparable. the funeral parlor and grounds at least a gun free here the community can gather and mold in peace. but today's funeral is not for someone rich far too soon from their beloved. the neighborhood has congregated today to say its final farewells to a man who lived to the ripe old age of 86 7. not many his survived that long this is a community that has become tragically accustomed to burying their loved ones at an

early age. it's awful when it really is it takes a lot. to see the agony suffer and the pain. in young people and then the other thing is a lot of the young people that are dying are leaving children behind which makes the situation even worse so it's challenging it really is. a challenging situation that when circumstances like these seems insurmountable in theory the people born into these conditions have the same and equal rights as anyone else in the country but they certainly do not have the same opportunity and with next to no outside assistance or viable role models providing inspirational guidance the chances of breaking the vicious cycle of violence and poverty are sadly low. to some who need is the turning point in their lives. they view him as

a teen and wants to be a nice to earn some extra money he works night shifts until 6 in the morning and then heads off to school. money used to come easier when he was a drug runner on the corner. and his mother couldn't support him and his siblings. he was just a teenager but he felt responsible to be the provider. was the one who got him out of the gang. i was there. i looked at his dad and not sell me at that age and at that age when i met him i was already in the streets and prison i had been in jail the joy of my life well spent in jail and i didn't want to have to go through what i went through actually like a father to me that i know in a because i never had a person well i always it all goes

a relative tear me with don't do this i don't do that but they would never show me a diff. wait how do you do if they were not to do well how could i not do if you don't give me a different route to years of boony believing in him ok davey in the courage to turn his life around. tony doesn't give up on anyone easily he wants to be their emergency exit to get them off the wrong track and convince them there is a better life waiting for them. that's hard to believe when all you know are the few blocks around you and affluent downtown chicago remains a shimmering skyline on the horizon. i know how you think you. know that for me today rooney is hosting a family reunion on his front porch a short reprieve in the rough neighborhood. boonie is the patriarch of west lot is of a new low key persistent not

a out they get right davey and made it to the other side bernie and patricia have practically taken him in will there ever be equal opportunities for the children surviving in the shadows of chicago downs his granddaughter will never get to see that day and yet he keeps on fighting every day for the kids here to come around he's always ready whenever they are. and you know that they will let you know when it was ok maybe 1 o'clock in the morning you know come up with the bad boy could you take me in the morning the family or job could you take me in a more you put me in the program would you take me the morning families from school so a car is there no prescribed time of night or so you just got to be there when a car there might they be as long as god keep up with me and keep me healthy enough work to get up from point a to point b. i won't be up for. as long as

mooney waits for them on his porch the door to. different life remains cracked open . for all of chicago's children who have lost their way. to god's. happy days will receive a mention defending them position at the top of the bundesliga win at home against i'm tom franks. the mood is not so great a bias after an unconvincing win against underdogs known doesn't it is this more true champions look like. a. double.

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