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the tales of the golden gate city as we report on the struggles in the ghettos of san francisco. robbers so it's a time i was one of them a good size in the. first. three birth worth of my liver and that's why i have a liver liver draining. glad to get surgery to get the birth. and there would only be able to get. my liver. was gone before i go out of it. the way malaria is from bayview he was lucky he got out alive and he's twenty five years old. visible from the skyscrapers of san francisco's financial district they view is

a deadly gas will most of the young people here will live over twenty five behind the well painted facades of the public housing projects lies dire poverty here most of the residents are african-americans they live off public handouts underhand dealings and some of crying as the seemingly peaceful atmosphere can change at any moment. you go. down. one dead in a baby shooting not a single month goes by without fatalities rival gangs have been caught up in a senseless ongoing war for many years. these scenes were filmed by a local boy and exchanged as going for a camera. devin melvin a sixteen year old when he was twelve he carried a gun. i

think a lot. from people who were going to run from me robbing people and been seen a lot i spent so much in my neighborhood so what a point where i'm like family i want to do right. so frail names are well and waggle. today devon is looking for a way out of the ghetto he doesn't want to live for down low and senseless fighting is the law of the land when you go through way back when i came to the table i went to the ball and i thought beef it was just some i didn't like i'm in it i'm in for . just a few miles from here in downtown san francisco against a veterans trying to get support for his project against juvenile gang violence showing the rich are just talking to mayor gavin newsome he wants to set up

a civic behavior course for the toughest members of the city's gangs at city hall but he needs a room this old girls were going to help us try to figure out but no one today we're like stepped up the think it's about the exact role oh it was so i thought. it would take me ten seconds to know the fix but the reality is gang related activity islands generally. space like this people are impoverished people don't have opportunities to gauge in activities that are not constructive or destructive that feed on themselves every rich city in this country is exact same thing that we have a company. body of this country the likes of which we've not seen since the one nine hundred twenty s. and that's the big burden being mayor and a big burden challenge to live in a country that don't understand that there's more violence in the streets of this country than there are in the streets of afghanistan or baghdad but we tend to go

or file goes on there but we try to turn a blind eye to what goes on here. that's really a ten people ask is a first sector not. showing richard six solutions he's the founder and director of the ngo brothers against guns also known as bag the mission of a thirty six year old and a half dozen people working in the organization is to give the youth and ghettos some hope they're the only ones working to keep the kids out of prison one night of every three young african-americans in the united states ends up in prison before the age of twenty five. by works with the juvenile court it looks nothing young people have broken the law and helps them make it through parole board mention to take pictures on campus rules so she had no. need for brothers against combs can be seen on these walls but this poster is just

one example the list of poor young african-americans who have been killed in ghettos like bayview is almost endless. my. friend is in a way way. far with family. these kids are they are paying and they all errors like animals and this hardest here is her to see this fact is here the facts here. is more to this and it's like i gotta go. you know. i'm machines will have tough. if somebody give the despair you know i just wanna finish and they just want to be a part of it. and actually have kids that they don't think past twenty or twenty five years old so they're going to get all they can do on

a kid like why they can't bring that to. the part. where. the beginning you know being alive we're weird they're. like. leaves here to sign up for the redirection project for humans up to age twenty for this three month course trains the neighborhoods toughest kids for joins. the classes will be held in city hall and the reason one class will be able to see your monitors and you know you've been to a graduation so you know in saying the reason why are we doing it that way is because you in coming in your stretch. coming and sitting all stretched. that's model you know i'm saying he don't i'm saying that's why i started this program in the story the other reason whether. the university of the murder of his brother tracy shown visits is great but what we have is when my brother got back to

me in a major way. it opened my eyes really made me realize what i was doing and what i was becoming and that i was a part of the reason why is. because he was trying to look up to me patterned after me follow up. with some of the gear so violence and drugs were once his words were not personal and i was about nine years old coming home from school one day this is from school and. you know that these kids used to be right smack in the middle of. that i have a good shout and i am alive you know i had everything i wanted as a kid you know my mother and father was a but it gave me what they wanted when i want to move and that's are all biggie you know you start off. store. hustling and then you start off

making a few dollars at the store of making more dollars and then you start to get more and more you get greedy woody it becomes like. something you need is like it's like a drug which is now using a verb because you would think it's the money. right here. so i'm a swell girl bet. show me often visits the house where he was born now his mother lives here although. the mom. did. she was doing things that she wasn't supposed to do in our environment back and i didn't know it in her and i was very i was really hurt you know because i never want to hear again that you know that kind of environment or that kind of life and and. he really heard of me i'm

not and i put him out and i found out you know you have to go well i mean you know obviously you know. anybody to get put out the way they house where they grew up and you know it will be angry about it but i mean she didn't want me you know so i decided i said ok if i go i mean i slept in my cloth all couple days then i think that means when i graduated from high school you know i was hustling and carrying a gun on the streets and stuff and so basically you know that wasn't what she wanted in our in our household you know when i just pray and ask these kids that think tries before they pull a gun on anybody's gravies think about it when i just heard and not heard in that car you're hurting apparently written one had it been left agree even killed that i just think about it for you. and god bless them.

devon melville who works in the museum in san francisco on saturdays his girlfriend there comes to pick him up devon was impressed by juno court for belonging to it getting. to where i am today for i was. stressed and i still was. but when i got how it was really when it happened and i got out it really got. a lot of. i feel. i don't really see this part of town so much as. used to be i don't really get around. my neighborhood. there are just a few miles between white some francisco the city visited by tourists and bayview but there are two completely different worlds here devon and the scene account live

a peaceful life there from different neighborhood turfs by enemy gangs. you know when you're transportation when they're around out of the neighborhood it's welcoming living. when i'm in a neighborhood there's no fires no laughing it could be on the outside but deep down inside i know i can get shot or killed or something happens to me any day when i'm up on that oh it's like i don't hear from them i think the first thing i simply . i'm on the line and. people like one i'm. like i'm always here now from have been in a car to take in my neighborhood is young that's carrying pistols as young teenagers fourteen and under forty going from twelve on up is how it was in my neighborhood i thought this before but that's what i'm seeing every day. devon is named geo where generation a video he made from guns in his neighborhood here young people from san

francisco's guesses are given the chance to do something creative i'm trying to make some out of my community like i'm trying to do some rest will help me and my community basically telling my story. but from these friends david shows us the life anyone slept. all the time i was there the kids with laughing and all my chest and i let me. go places i got the feel. places but now i'm just not i think about the life now back then i will think twice about i just didn't get out on the segway me going to where i had to go i was full of you know and then i got something i want to do now. shawn also has to leave the office sometimes to talk to some of his old pals who are still associated with the harbor road going about three hundred yards from west point his reputation as a former gangster in his new role as mediator and a friend had given him protection from the violence in this area.

a trace. in west point you but i go first there are two streets where the local youths hang out the kids in the harbor roadside meet here in the square outside the gym this is where they chant sometimes smoke are just hanging out. and they. were right problem row marker. me big film. again and we grew up in war always. i mean i'm off obviously i'm sure home with my best playing with my god. these girls don't eat they go to the movies they go to other places just like all the other people do off with susan but when they come out they area they just. more

recent time meet again banks the drug dealers they just why why do you everybody have a tag on we not day so take the tag off motto is very few people like us to talk to the youngsters now it's like they are here with a hey kind of like know. what to do to school they go to juvenile back in for that's my brothers like see our race steady go until now i mean if you are here you know you're in the street. you know it's here you were you spinning around you . mall. for those i can make you. stay down. that's won't try me. brothers against guns is committed to

a long list of projects like the basketball tournament organized by the housing institute but perhaps the most ambitious of its projects is the redirection project which tries to change the course of the lives of those who sign up selection must be strict account that's coming from a war zone that's was on the back of the flood brothers there's. the redirection project will start on the fifteenth. as you see no voice come down today and fill out the application we've got about some coming down here we don't know nobody to be popping up any happy for somebody yes. in. america there are just me. me and we are we have questions we have course we have like three and if it's a question guy we ask them are you game related give the go team up to the major be still smoking marijuana in the last question really only are you willing are you ready to make a change because if you're not then we direction is not what you say and just like

most that call out and one of the city jobs because they still smoke a week you know since the you know eleven take a piss test and what's wanted to take a piss test and it wasn't a fair play and not go take a piss test existing beggary really want to say. listen you're a coalition we're live in this thing it's only select. the redirection project is about to start classes will be held in a room in sydney hold on the last for three months in neutral territory for the war zone these kids are told a little of everything i will look for a job how to get my id card or simply how to fill out forms. and they learn civic behavior in the end what they really want is to find a job. sunday

morning in america neighborhood but here nothing is typical of the harbor kids come here because it could mean risking their lives. a rap singer is very committed to his community to peace to promote his latest cd. everybody. you don't. know that. you. are. going to. work for the. rapper j.t. promotes peace with his music the neighborhood association organizes the game but this is nothing but a brief time out public festivals with the surveillance are

a far cry from daily life in the neighborhood for the young people who live here daily life is going to help their job so feature no hope their only choice is for the future of prison. devon films everything with this camera this footage reveals work life is really like in baby. nobody. any day any second so i. know. i mean it brings out a crowd but they. are back and i'm always talking i'm always thinking about how we need to give money before all the rules. a little to like. the we use and. people capable. role here. here at any moment fun and

games can turn into tragedy. for. tonight there's been another murder in the streets of a view a car drives by shots ring out once again a family races into the street to cry over a young man's dead body. it's good to hear drive by gang shootings are common in san francisco about fifty people are murdered every year mostly and they've been in this. world for. us all. of the snow. like for its. life. cycle this is how the kids remember their dead friends and specter tony champ and then bro brief from the special brigade against youth gangs tell us about it. these guys get caught up in things that they don't know why they're doing it they just remember the last shooting that they need to have been for the last killing that

they need to send a message about. right. so go forwards i mean a lot of go folks that are just literally been held hostage in here you know i mean . they know their lies everybody knows we're trying to cut. according to the inspectors the presence of gangs here is evidence they inspect an empty house and west point which according to what they've heard has become a new meeting place. is almost like really gang newspaper yeah who their enemies are yeah. big block and kirkwood. corsi that assess we're on earlier then do you have the allies you have the home gang you're west madhu's turf this this actually is then you have sonny deal. was a group where on the other side of the city who was mobs click dealt with or ally

with. the officers comb the neighborhood street by street they disagreed with most people who think that the violence only stem from personal rightful rinse. we have a lot of photos of these guys they're wearing rags and it looks you know if you don't know any better you get yourself in south central los angeles and they're wearing rags and it's one of the gang signs you got photos of guys blowing up a w. and they got their rag. they've got tattoos all over them it's a big black alive for we all we got i mean at some point they take a leap from just being a neighborhood or curb people are saying hey these are neighborhoods or these are sets because they don't really want to recognize that their kids belong to a gang at the gangs are present because that brings up negative connotations and

why the kids end up getting into it there's a lot of reasons a lot of these families are broken so kids are joining gangs because they want to feel like they belong to something they're looking for that sense of family that they're not getting at home. it's sad to see these. a really nice views for of all the shootings and killings up here. the situation is so extreme that a senseless concrete barrier has been put up dividing the neighborhood and two for the kids here crossing it can be fatal. they're at a point now where their backs are against the wall and they're like you know what i want out and it's mainly the older guys the younger guys they're still kind of caught up in it but the older guys are when i say older we're talking twenty three and up those guys are stand we want out we want jobs we want to do something better with our lives because this is taking us nowhere except to the cemetery.

the city's black community has got a done ten big celebration the first san francisco bay area route festival music's key to the success with many of the young people in ghettos one of them is a big surprise j.t. has brought kids from his neighborhood with them from both harbor road and west point. out in oxford street right now it is just. bringing the two factions together is risky as one belief shows. the singer has a tough time but he manages to keep the peace perhaps this festival will serve to give some hope to the district's hopeless youth but the ghetto and crime are always

a part of grow up and use it. it's time for the awards winning groups take over the stage. j. . he is getting ready to appear with his boy his latest cd has also won a prize. winning . play. here.

it's time for the redirection project graduation salman it san francisco's city hall your teachers and brothers against guns give speeches full of hope they've given these youngsters an opportunity and there's nothing more that they can do. one by one the graduates are given their diplomas by sean richard this is the second try seven hundred twenty one people in last year's course still have jobs with sean managed to increase the rate this year. they are where mel is to keep the streets said he disagrees play the game was too much like it was no more with me we could have more but i know it was too much when it was enough basic enough to help us get through what we got to do and to just about life when the right of way bay or our success. would be successful right now and it's

determination in your willpower words full of optimism six months later three of these young men were in jail lost his job four months later. doing his twelve bullets in his body. the quickest he couldn't appear in the last photograph because he was killed before it was taken that you. would go. to kill people and you got to. think. for the for the sake make. it part of the thing. like a. closure

is that so much as i can which are right on. the brink of bankruptcy time is running out for the american budget deficit failure to raise the debt ceiling would have catastrophic concert.

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