thanks so much thank you coming up next a documentary chicago survival in the shadows looks at the explosion of violence that has overtaken the us and then i'll be back at the top of the hour you're watching thanks for joining us. welcome to the what is the game here for d.w.i. . templates to talk about and. let's just coverage. 3 more. asshole we have. let's have a look at some of the other much illegal so you don't want to. get the w. i.

am pretty dang full of these a parent's worst nightmare that they live all over the world 7 those damn to stick so clear in chicago it happens every day are not. all that sometimes to the float like the river him on of the deadliest cities in the u.s. most victims are children who. came through here don't want to help the city to the other. this man builds crosses for each loss to the epidemic of gang violence here it's almost can do to just stay alive for you know 5 crosses here we have to they don't stop it's 7 people we've lost a 5 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 who 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 here. is north already here his word carries weight it takes a courageous person. chris got speak to the kids they see a group of kids in the study now going through all misspeak it to be a walk around. and that makes us

a difference in me and this person because i go to the class. 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 guy. that's a hard job to convince them to stop selling. and they go get a legitimate job the only thing that can tell them that there's a lot of tar i get try to get them to see the law which is not that it's deficient because it's to tack a bead on. a short life in the fast lane for most here that's all they've ever known. most of their fathers were absent in jail jarring their childhood their moms barely able to make ends meet. growing up here often means falling for the wrong

hero. he takes his several days on the streets before we meet gang members willing to talk to us. you want to be a part is like you see what we do and we hustle and we do it i was never. going to be a part so you see the reason that we were taken to every risk that we take it is to wait till you. get your job if you mess around out here. you have to read i'm choosing to take the risk because i like face 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 is to tuesday tell the stories of friends he lost by l.n.g.

who was killed in front of his school when he was just 16 like real bad times this cargo here by what they pay everybody like this is it doesn't it doesn't. hurt i don't my brother i'm a big brother no go get that for me. it's been a lot it's been a lot of is going no one no the best the best brothers i've ever put to it. me that the whole world will bless you know this is. a 57 bunia game watches over his streets but this time it's different he's no angel but life has made him wiser he still does manage to get through to everyone though some couldn't even imagine life without gangs gangbang in a cool is a life that you chose at the end of a because we had no choice you know close intimate feeling. no matter who it is a what if from a body had a choice in the life we go. pushed to the point we had no choice we had to get out

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 a child i. love this that would be like in his hometown this is looking good to see elegant house for this soon as well not going to be it's not but so what we gain by with it we really have family over why we all kill for each of the village by we don't do we not we'll do fine under their belief is that there's some stuff they gave a we will we lose we there's nothing to do i never know what you see home. he's the one who builds the cross and for chicago's lost children greg zanies is a retired carpenter for each life taken he sets up another cross together they form a growing memorial on the west side great himself suffered the tragic loss of 2

family members he knows what it's like to have a loved one stone and from him. who was not there. were never making the crosses is also a way for greg to be able to work through his own trauma. my nickname tribe. heard it's hard in my shop i cry a lot more show. 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 or notice their mother or that loved. her like just

say honor or. she loved him to a certain point something went wrong. or 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. this is just hard to talk about is this. you know we garfield the light. snow structure. there is no leadership so.

tyrone blake jr did not live to see his 26th birthday. i. call a points office fully rigged with than 10 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 work 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 them to collect footage and he also hits the road himself every night. it really. can be anywhere where people are shooting at each other you know i were. asked for added protection.

some nights seems a little more dangerous than others some nights i 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 so. classy downtown chicago with its imposing skyline is world removed from the chicago lapointe watson he covers stories from the tough assignment one that is really cool song camera he's been on the job for 20 years now and seldom sleeps more than 5 hours a day if that. promise of. a 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 as to what song 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 not going to lie to get a job. 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 and you were assigned to afghanistan or iraq this is the civil or assignment at the end of the day every day someone is being shot at my life. so it is not much different than being a combat journalist many times tonight it's 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 that is a couple of people shot. in his collar point 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 and a man was shot ninja his movements are routine he wastes no time setting up his camera. the police have already roach 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 wholly packs away his camera and continues on his journey the next crime scene is already waiting. for. his it gets warmer. bullets fly more violence as more the aggravation level is increased as you increase the temperatures people just get crazier and crazier.

where the hottest summer days when you get the most shootings people are just. that the numbers in chicago have been really bad at the time that we've had weekends where we had 50 people shot a dozen killed that happens more frequently than people might think that it's unfortunate for pauli the night is far from over. a new day dawns in chicago's west and south sides and reveals just how rundown these neighborhoods really are. people who grow up here are 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. street worker is one of the few people local youngsters respect he's disappointed with the meager 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 his community and it's not al's that force in the more that any because this weapon tree is so assessable now in my community you can go get a god quicker than you can buy a barlow juice. chicago proud to be home to barack obama the country's 1st african-american president. 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 playing 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 bernie 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 were 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 my bob i was not. an old acquaintance from the neighborhood here every.

one i do you didn't see her like that ago barbara starr he seems intimidating at 1st but soon it's clear he has mental health problems and needs help i was going through nancy good to go some good see good i have a very old he. is going to shoot. luckily it's just a colorful water pistol but. no known. to man. otherwise the guns people carry here a real loaded and lethal. but this is it this is it's you and i could well imagine he's seriously mentally ill he did drugs don't last as much so he is mentally ill and he out in the street just that at the above that normally a person he approached like that when it got physical see them up on holiday daily

violence is the sad norm and 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 a school ended and the students were going house up the stairs on my house and i heard gunshots and i knew my kids were trapped on the floor it was very scary says he's always been with them for a. good saturday night. live the saturday kids got to stay in the house they can come outside and play as their benches away so. this is in a neighborhood the top hat my mind. would like to go somewhere where i have no money. 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 the. place that this would fit into this watch just so while. i mean my model is always there while positive people say from negative people who have nothing going on in my life have nothing to live for. this keep it moving i really don't try to associate with a lot of people our spouse streets where. we targeted or the state so that's what they. just thought well this is the work they feel that helps this well is. 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

a map of it i had a guy by. a teacher. that's 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 all of. them. i think of her right here in his exam. i think. what you're going to make up these days about the great work you know all right even though the people living in a trust the social workers more than they do the police. that we could go to not about this got shot one not the supply would go to you know in

a 68 you. know that we are you know there are. some vince other younger people to put the gun. 7 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 experience 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 many not i'm in town that we're going to make there are no big deal for

next year and i was a different mentality in all of it when we were no we when it came together in our lives that actually we would been a part of the problem you know with us it was the kids as it was already station you know there has a doctor who would say no there were sobbing in the region when we were down there and i look up to us and we try to change their lives and give them jobs something yeah. i gotta think of. them i am not feeling well i mean you know what they don't need the 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 every day right. and carlos know all too well just how hard it can be to find a job after leaving jail. that will go well i build 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. you know well with mike it. was out so he didn't see it right. it's important that the kids trust him so that they can talk to him 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 there not his strictly voluntarily attendance as one of their parole conditions carlos leads the group today they're

talking about their mothers this. is not easy was the 1st thing. is hard so appreciate your mother. some feign disinterest others shift on comfortably in that chance talking about their emotions is something they'd never really learn to do we can we can help you guide you but you guys go in the woods and say you know what is it that you saw in the carlos the former gang leader who spent 25 years in jail talks openly about his emotions and his mother she never failed to visit she never feel december commissary money she never was there for the 70 pictures you know of family events she never go to you know a separate collector. she was always. my homey. 6 months into my yeah i looked out at the. it was gone

my girlfriend's day was gone. and that's the reality of it and that's why we do you know to give out respect to our moms you know to show them that we love and we care because you can have disagreements if you can be strong but going to the guys know my. people inside his openness gets the boys thinking she'll find a way to make stuff nice you know is no why she always put it. first so. this is my protector. you say because my mom was both my mother never. seen know me even though she had a tough time raising me for both of us is to see always the way the initial thought she would go for a while i may not she just got out of prison last more oh i have seen or felt like

234 years no change every time a delusion was every time i did she was all drugged up you know say she was in the right my. story is that they are reluctant to recall that many are reluctant to hear carlos does listen and offers the boy's options but he's well aware that ultimately they will have to fend for themselves back on the street. sure thank. the only protection greg zaniest needs is the helmet the soles and 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 got gun violence it just it just showed it. yes well laving nobody told us. there is no cure for cancer. there is no cure here i am going to be doing the things that you know like

i can't keep up with it. it's about a nation that's walked away from. this about and i'm showing an act of kindness you know i'm going there not just with a cross in my heart 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 he 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 it's

a daughter not me and most of all at work how are you i think this country will quickly go into hell with the look of 10 years the last 10 years has been special the last 2 years. greg he's 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 come full 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 up here could always be at the wrong place at the wrong time and get killed. police departments like this one in 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 rain you will hear differently 3 years after her daughter was stabbed to death she was left to raise her grandkids on her own 2 years ago one of them was also killing. miss ray wanted to do her part to combat violence on the streets so she founded the chess club.

to. see michael my 1st question and the long suffering kids meet at the police station to play chess against members of the community and police officers as we are. introduced. here white still allow the police to every time you stop to think about this you insult the dragon a day at a dragon a brother with great glee on the way the rest of what yourself you know the kind this side of the. same thing go for the peace although we also want to sit down without your men. here children who. now with your thought. plus whoever is playing chess is not out on the street says miss wright she also thinks that playing chess teaches the kids to solve their

problems with reason and not by pulling a gun and resulting to violence. well my dad told me it says the right way to do it life so like if there was like blackie we chose to go the other way to actually do the good if there's a good dad headed we told you to 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 was outside it's a different story in time i prefer to think like they were to suddenly have that is what. he was. here now like he was like

you can be me choosing me like that i did satisfy that we like happy and. i know. 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 the phone me for the sake of the children that. my daughter you know who was killed the 2 just love all of law that it was my friends that was murdered this is always good to have to protect the other. we have to support them so i could do this they focus all right i would like to write to you that. it's night time and boone 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 not. 27 years of jail couldn't break his spirit. he married his wife patricia after he was released above the catch 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. afraid. the polies says. that paris is scared you. know bad. and this is the most courageous generation of young black and brown people in this

world. right. so. direct their courage to a real fight a fight that's going to help us as a people. just think of 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 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. you grew up in the camilla's he did i was part of the destruction reputation so although he grew up all his life was. to portray day and. thinking he was living up to my image so when he had a conflict and started resign. he resolved it in

a way. and that was right and it cost him 55 years of his life. the street is open for business 24. cars drive up a door opens drugs are exchanged and the contracts off again maybe boonies 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 you to get jail bad and you got the boy. you got your privates you got the perfect storm just like me. but

for now all he can do is watch from his front porch as the kids on the street make the same mistakes he did. mistakes that rarely come with the 2nd child. patrol cars emergency lights 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.

there is no time of day in chicago when it doesn't happen like i said you know it really there's a shooting every 4 hours in chicago so you know it's rare i don't know that we've got a day without it shooting for 2 years now i think it's my juniors and not a day without a shooting or a 24 hour period without a shooting so you know again crime is down the homicides in shootings have had no doubt about 25 percent but we still have 75 percent that is still happening so it's going to take a little more work to try to get these streets a little safer. tonight his family quiet he says. 3 am pauley has time to swing by his office here it's safe to take off his bullet proof 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 years. 13 year olds 12 year olds the reason why they're brought into a gang life is 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 him years this child in the way they did and then they killed him which is why foley says he one 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 tieless 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 moan 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 'd 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 the hurt and the pain. in young people and then the other thing you 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 with circumstances like these seems insurmountable inferi 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 macside assistance or viable role models providing inspirational guidance the chances of breaking the vicious cycle of violence and poverty are sadly lost.

to some who need is the turning point in their lives. davey and his 18 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. 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 as a not so me at that age and act days when i met him i was already in the streets and prison i had been in jail joy that my life was spent in jail and i didn't want to have to go through what i went to actually like a father to me there are no in there because i never had the person who are always

it all goes a relative to me when i don't do this i don't do it but they would never show me a good. wait the how to do it they were to not to do but how could i not do if you don't give me a different route to years of boony believing in him ok davey and the courage to turn his life around. bernie 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. 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 now. that. today bernie is hosting a family reunion on his front porch a short reprieve in the rough neighborhood. boonie is the patriarch of west lot is

have a new low key persistent out again right davey and made it to the other side bernie and patricia have practically taken him in with the ever be equal opportunities for the children surviving in the shadows of chicago downs his granddaughter will ever 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 the danger they will let you know when they will get maybe 1 o'clock in the morning to come up with the bad boy can 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 and school so a car is there no prescribed time at night or so you just got to be there with a car there my thinking is now it's god keep up with me and keep me healthy and up walk and get up from point a to point b. i'll be up for. as long as

pruning waits for them on his porch the dog. a different life remains cracked open . for all of chicago's children who have lost their black. op. a defector from east germany who was caught and arrested. the garion border guard who did his duty. 30 years later the to meet again. a defector and the border guard. 30 minutes w.

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