how the law can affect the lives and a number of national studies have looked at the fact that when you take a child away from their community you take them out of school you take them away from any support system they're often housed in humane or brutal conditions rarely get adequate education or treatment you're disrupting their lives without actually providing them with any positive interventions are positive supports and so what happens is that upon release they're even less prepared to deal with society too often time in jail in the criminal record many you find it hard to finish school or to find employers that will hire them. one block away from the prison is liberty's kitchen and organization dedicated to helping at risk youth right now a lot of various oh i'm sorry scream i pad but i'm going to do

a lot of the time i was on a gun charge i want it out for thought and bad police. dog and ization trained sixteen the twenty year olds in a working restaurant work often begins with a group discussion over a deli quote it's easier to build strong children than the paper of good men and easy to build strong children in the paper in many liberties kitchen aims to put you on a road to a self-sufficient life you know mongul school right now because of their money that you make a lot of the young people i work with don't have examples only miles of people get up go to work every day they young sixteen seventeen years old so naturally they don't have work experience a lot of folks don't want to because you have to make a commitment to trainees and that's that's of that everybody's will do for kids who don't have support it can be hard to live up to the requirements of a probationary period. so that means that the do check it

once a week drug court so they got to go to drug class once a week he would serve you have those three points that that will happen you still have fines and fees that hussle pay for the fees hustle does that mean that you're one of those of the league so that increases the likelihood of you've been picked up again same thing over and over for kids who need income selling drugs often seems like the only available job as i was thirteen i got in a game with twenty doubt it was a twenty dollar flipper rod it was a color flip was twenty dollars could you could break them a hair and make two twenty out of rocks so if i have twenty doubt that i'm going to flip around break and i have to make four take effort to get to know flippers. great i may have now i've got eight but i didn't make the five sales and i don't carry my twenty four hours and also the hundred up i mean i've been a money isn't more than what a fifteen year supposed to make you get out of school at three and if you from three to twelve at night you know i travel twenty dollars an hour left by twelve

o'clock you've got prizes under that. truck and i had a camaro i'm. just on avenue i had to make money my arms all work you might be on drugs my fears and i'm in a home where we may be alone exams oh yeah. but i always found as a ram in the all. our restaurant is made down well the for status on necessity the law of selling drugs lead to packing guns for protection it was like no i've got a gun too i don't know there was a gun maybe made a film asking us what he wanted to go so i'm a give me a gun that i don't want you started on me which oh god yeah i got a gun to welcome our a week i'm scared he had to have his dealing with that he really has specially with me because i didn't deal. i don't deal in my neighborhood because. in a good. knowledge of that ahead all the grass doesn't really step it if they had a beef between younger cats and really wants to be like maybe i'll need to stop

this i know i don't know which i went through whatever but there's been a fate any good thing has only more blood on sharon but as well now eight really don't have the old if it doesn't come in and says right now. the things they other people in my family have done because they contribute to you know like drugs and virus not just the fact there is the fear they just because what they do i think that someone is going to come and try to get me through ten decent heavens every day at this moment some matters for to somebody somehow most is that what we did i'm one big ome with you know street justice. who put you in a whole bunch or a tele that is family and their families are returning to this family in the wall of the game with them when i walk out the door and the first thing i go is in my

mind i live to the left and i wait for about ten seconds to make sure that nobody's coming they say in a car coming to my right it's not going to get to before you give me. the raise. it cost more so you got to be straight you got a gun. and we got the guy you can protect yourself. airboat milly's a youth organization which made a short film focus on retaliation we had hit in the family my son was one of six years old he was a joy a computer engineering and working for coca-cola bollen at night he got shot five times and he and we really knew it at a depth we had to do some bottle got involved because i had another son still to still live in and also we had community members and founded members there it was a set of bodies and we knew that we didn't need people retaliate in my son's murder if it's not you.

it's only live in son was cast as michael a boy who was pressured by friends to retaliate for his brother's murder every time you kill one black kid you a do a number he's citing his friends to take a keogh you. just.

never lost a child. you don't know what you know you hear stories about it so many people you used to feel the authority but you love but you really don't know how i feel into you. you. is an epidemic and you really have to understand on that day i lost my identity i was a mother and wife who had two children and now have one i don't believe and not answer the question when people ask me how many children i have they've it's death murder left a huge gaping hole in my life like half a meter i with him isn't great emptiness so i had to fill that up with something. when you tell someone it just child was murdered in the streets or you know it or

the ex how he died or he was shot to be he you know he was murdered ok did they automatically assume what he must was involved in some type of drug so he most you know was a big one of the streets or whatever person killed another person you are destroying this person whole family the whole family and then only did family your family also you know your families were your include two families. over for this generation you can't change this to parody made up a mouth i don't think there's hope to stop violence in new orleans i don't think violence but never stuck on really going no i don't think so and if the neck generation will be like degeneration then you know put them in jail that's not

going to solve nothing because when they get out they battle worth it and what they'll learn before it went so well life some people just bank in a row my banking killing is cool it gets you by gives you power so i don't know how you go will come know even though the. every thing that seems to be true to me in reviewing the murder board and reading the articles of virtually every murder victim. the one constant is in some way there is a connection to poverty when you live in poverty at some point in sun generation you'll move from poverty with almost to her a spirit of hard work and labor you will you will eventually shift to despondency. and hopelessness if you've got nothing and you've got

no opportunity what he did. you start to construct your own culture and society against the news that is glorified if you seal minute dogs in a big cause in a drawer is a glorified kid's theologist on t.v. you see it but they can't put their hand on a d. can you get how can i get this they make it look like. one is not real but they tend to not care because they're hungry they want to feed their family so much. they don't really you know pay attention to what they're actually were kind of monster to creating one of the people working to contradict those images of violence is kevin griffin he's a member of toussaint a media collective that combines entertainment with education like you're going to

talk to you when you're mad he's everything from fang to the future of hip hop. is like sesame street meets the most important. remember when everybody every. danger of every. every call. to send social commentary has gone at them several wars and a loyal following on you tube there's a lot of opportunities for negativity to just grow and you got to actually what kind of culture we have the negativity can grow so easy. to. mock it. and tell us your rap life and sweet life all of. the market being a powerful good play you know like. wealthy

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would rather i asked questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question lol. well you have that kind of following in famous site why would you you know do your thing and that's fine but why when you try to use that you know that power that mass for something positive you know because if it's the wind tomorrow say it you know what

i think macon always a school if you don't think every town hall will be you know books so hot but. one of two since most popular videos is every book in the world a parody of the way the song every girl in the world the video was created as part of a book giveaway. i mean you know. in this day and age you have so many more outlets that people didn't have years ago you had in a net and people come out on camera taking away all the things you know now you can sort of create the change you want to see you are gonna be so you know you can become that thing that you want to change and broadcasting for the world but to

have a kid to wonder about you know about cinema can you imagine what it would be can we do you get you to write you know like just like the trains i could care about those who. just want to show kids that it's a lot more to put them in that we do stand for money when you can be right you can really let your voice be heard. with a variety of problems facing new orleans you there isn't an easy solution but the efforts of two cents and the number of youth development programs across the city are planned in the seas of change. night war internationally known event producer called washington volunteers his time to coach kids here don't want to be bad give don't want to be gangsters they don't want to be drug dealers they don't want their

blood without a timely and they have a k.-k. maybe we can see when we first came discipline was a major because sorry we had to work on that we had to get that to be the number one thing and we won a battle was there so we had to stay he was going to be engaged in life on a daily basis you were serious about we want to go we would do it there we saw a change there not just respect the peer attention the more focus the more concern and eager to want to learn and grow and develop for the fifth patches and brought more part of the delhi commitment is helping kids to see a brighter future seventy five percent of the children i worked with couldn't write down their dreams and their hopes their aspirations we talked to one thousand year old who didn't who asked what he was going to do in five years and he said another be alive in five years. and so we realized we had to wipe that slate clean that that curriculum is not going to work here we had to start with the basics teach the kids how to imagine again one of our foster children that lived with us during this time came up to me very very worried he was not he thought that my seven year old

there was something wrong with him because the seven year old was sitting on the couch saying hey chris ok really spaceship we're going to go explore you sit here and i'll be the pilot and chris was trying to convince me that there was something wrong with my son because he didn't know where he was chris had lost at nine years old the ability to imagine while developing activities for youth the fist paget's realized that many of the children at the center were only getting fed in school. we so we did something one thursday night that's now turned to every thursday night we had some extra money and we had a donation come in that we were allowed order pizza with we had everybody come in and they had to sit down at a meal i rearranged all the tables into a family style meal and we served the pizza sitting down and having a meal together and they had to talk to each other. well those who are not from new

orleans may not know this but third wards are not supposed to talk to ten thwart their mamas and their grandmothers in their great grandmothers have told them that parkway in zion city no way but the power of pizza over that seems to be when. they have to sit down when they eat together and they have to speak to each other kids have found out they were related when they thought they were enemies kids and found out they have a common grandparent kids have found out their evacuation story was the same. and i find this common ground when they talk to each other like. this is a very good thing for the kids. to keep kids off the street to help you homework we have my fun time family nights make sure no one has a slight curve. going their pants down below but they teach us to do the

right bangs and life so we don't go in a bad direction we have fun and no no and then don't know what happened to them or all the kids cavities all the right ways the lot of they'll get the behind us and do the right thing. quartered central city you can palm a project helps young people from around the area by providing a variety of services they offer tutoring mentor and counseling as well as special assistance to those who are transitioning back home from detention centers by providing tents case management we could help them reconnect you know with family and community and make a healthy transition into young adulthood when they self esteem is now when they begin to feel that nobody is want to give them an opportunity but then they began to shut down and then they go back to the things that are in their community that they think is a way to get out of it or a nasty the struggle is like a revolving door i know christian won't kill us all right you bet i.

run through. the we're just i think it was the thing about the supports that you care and if they were not there you know with choices which you have may feel should be reflected is that that you should be doing what you should be you to some this only. make you you know it's not something that's going to happen overnight it's a it's a process you know you have to get back to the things that we got away from and it's about understanding and allowing the kids. to to to know that you really care you know because if you take hope i mean if you don't you know him no no reason all of whom have raised the boy. when our. you know i was going to be.

in the bedroom you know some of the lads were why was it rude not going to question . those who are actually. doing the rounds goodness he used to just get up to go to the river they now want out if he can and will help. are really keen to see him. so yes if we see you in the least you know you're going for a change when we talk about. our. time and be helpful me ok you are losing control because you do what is the reason hey you follow the rules i've always been told that very good very good is really good but you raise a ball a. very. it's

a lot of people getting killed though to teens a really good in this heated life and imo see my like i am tired of people having children and hoping that they make it i would children are supposed to make it help me with my boys how much i don't come to miles which of potato salad in your words of condolence is help me while he is alive more park more. or you know what. i'm saying but i'm a better school and they have more active keep young teens off the streets best book courts could. organization groups in the district i'm talking about where you know somewhere else culture that is we remain known for everything being we because we had no choice but to be become no deaths we see you out of me get you know people come at us then you have to sort of i break you know it's like give them

back to the point where they should be you know when we talk about the future of louisiana and the future of our city we need to change around the dynamic we are first in incarceration and yet either last or next to last in education that is certainly not the way to produce a viable state in terms of economic opportunity in terms of investment but it's also throwing away an entire generation of young folks i think people finally agree that you can't are enough cops to make the city safe people say make the laws harsh harsh is harsh when you kin on a street with a man ten and some rock you don't care where the ng go away for wife or not whether a teenager is where his pants down to his knees cursing up a storm or brandishing a gun what they're really saying is look at i matter. i don't want to get caught up i don't want to get i don't want to die i just really

do not want to die young young age because whenever i see it on the news my kid dives for even turned eighteen that's a shock to me that makes me not want to live here anymore but still making a living because my friends are here you know like people that i can see myself actually growing up with you know stuff like that i feel like i'm just torn in the middle i want to stay here but i don't want to stay it is i don't want to die.

shellshock live in the. midst of these cars and all the stuff go to nothing in the city when you constantly hold in the cold to go golfing shellshocked live in the cold sold mentally so often all the people go to nothing in the city because when you constantly hold the phone it's an old guy me just blow shit on the sidewalk little pieces walk around with a prize go no go so we marry nation missing a single city problem this no nation when it pops out the next cage and live in the system big pussy mancipation reaching a dream to see believe in santa economic he's got a second life animal. and the little chap in normal plot with

a traffic ticket in the lot they keep it high. enough so him to get excited would be see him still want and that's a treat you can see it's a trap music going to come on a thing the boss may soften up and make a case twenty five the old when awesome job this law still shot livin in the coal sold me and some nice cars in all the stuff cold enough to get in the city young folks when they commonly hold in the cold till the toll guy shellshocked livin in the boss told me it's only soft and all the people go in not to get in this easy road when it comes to the whole good looks still don't got me. i've got a quote for you. it's pretty tough to. stay with substory. but if this guy like you would smear that guy stead of working for the people most

tissues in the mainstream media are working for each other right right was visited by. the dead rather by well. i'm the president and. the side that case i think corporation trying to convince. can do i'm the banker trying to get all that money all about money and i'm passionately sick for a politician writing the laws and regulations that. there is just too much. today's society. that.

that was a new alert animation scripts scare me a little believe me. there is breaking news tonight and they are continuing to follow the breaking news mayor mayor alexander's family cry tears and so why is it great things rather that there has to be adequate regard and of course a wall around. there's a story made for a movie is playing out in real life.

i think. everybody. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution which says that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy trick i'll fix. them again i'm sorry and i'm this show we reveal the picture of what's actually going on we go beyond identifying to try to fix rational debate real discussion critical issues facing a family member go ready to join the movement then welcome to the big picture. i am sam saxon for tom hartman in washington d.c. here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture.