there was a beating heart at the center of sandtown winchester. so that was very positive andrea shurg. and then i attended yesterday a one baltimore meeting of fill anti-pea and state and city to see how does baltimore react to this. basically they surveyed everything that had been touched by the riots and the looting and there were 350 different businesses, a half of them were broken window or something on the exterior. the serious ones you saw on that clips over and over again, a very large shoe store, the cvs, one senior center that burnt to the ground if you take those 350 and look at the cost that is estimated on it, it's about $12.5 million from just initial preliminary estimates, a third of them have full insurance a third of hem have partial and a third have none and the city and philanthropists and others banks and community financial institutions are getting together a pool to try and put everybody back into business. is so it's a lot more hopeful situation than you might see from what you watch. and i'm sure jennifer had the same thing

sandtown- winchester has a prison u connection. it has a large number of ex-offenders and we ran into one problem after -- they're an automatic exclude as you know, by maryland law. we had to go all the way back into the parole and prison system, et cetera, to try to find a job, and mentor on that very expensive, very long term it was one of our biggest issues, it remains a huge issue. getting it changed, which we attempted for many years, is very difficult. it is a soundbite for any politician. >> i would jump on two quick issues. on the crime, what i do want to say that there's another issue that's prevalent. i didn't know that much about it, you are made. the cook county president. she was an alderman in the city of chicago for 20 years. when she got there she looked at -- a third of their budget in jails. she looked at the data and it showed that, first, the vast majority of the offenses were nonviolent. what was more surprising was 80% or something like that of the people in jail had not been convicted. they were awaiting tria

our focus is sandtown/winchester-- the impoverished neighborhood where there was rioting this past weekollowing the death of freddie gray. he grew up and was arrested there. so let's begin “sandtown by the numbers.” it's a community of 14,000 thousand people on baltimore's west side that like so many others was hard hit by the loss of manufacturing jobs after big companies like bethlehem steel left town. the latest available numbers put the unemployment rate in sandtown at more than 21%-- about four times the national average. almost a third of the residents there live in poverty-- that's twice the national average. we begin by looking at health care in sandtown. for more about this we are joined by dr. robert blum, the director of johns hopkins urban health institute. the institute is less than 5 miles from sandtown. so, there's this phrase about this genetic lottery. we don't choose who we're born to. but the infant tortality rate in sandtown is more than three and a half times the national average, 21 per,000 births compared to six per thousand births. from the very outset of life we

they have their houses, the cost to the government would be more than it is in sandtown winchester if you do the math over the same period of time. so you have these houses almost 700 if you count ours and habitat's together that are there, are effective, they are a heartbeat. what didn't happen? the connection to jobs was incredibly difficult. there is a large number of ex offenders in the area, they are an automatic exclude by law. we went round and round on that. that was a failure. economic development did not occur. so you can see where sandtown's investment begins and ends. where freddie gray lived was on the outskirts of the area that had been improved dramatically and had the strongest home ownership portion of all of sandtown winchester. and what didn't happen was there wasn't an economic driver that kept that redevelopment going past where the homeowners and were and past where the stability in sandtown winchester was. the employment did not occur. the healthcare systems we -- and i'm sorry i'm probably taking too long -- the healthcare systems, we organized all of the vario

swaths of the city are disconnected from the life of the other baltimore and in that baltimore, sandtown winchesterwhere freddie gray is from is one of the poorest neighborhood really in the country. every socioeconomic indicator there is down. gwen: you've lived there for 30 years. you and i used to cover baltimore together. what you wrote in your piece this week was this was something that's that was going to happen. michael: because you had these two worlds that bumped up against each other onle on occasion. you had fights at the harbor. the drug scene in the ports community. and the police's role was to come in, clear everybody out. arrest people, not sort of be part of the community so you always had this tension and there was a lot of police interaction so you could just feel this coming. >> michael was this different from what we saw in ferguson or north charleston? is there something unique about this situation? michael: it was similar but different in the racial dynamic. baltimore has a police force that's half black and a lot of people who have sort of had this antipathy toward the police

we repeatedly visited penn and north, sandtown winchester and many other communities on both the east and west sides of the city. we worked from the baltimore city police headquarters. we visited injured officers at shock trauma. we had a meal with members of the national guard at the armory and with officers at the state police command center. we met with and thanked as many state troopers and allied police officers soldiers and firefighters as we possibly could. our entire team was working 16 to 20 hours a day in addition to managing managing we're literally making hundreds of decisions and managing the 4,000 people we brought with us. we also talked with business owners religious leaders commune community leaders in order to provide reassurances and to understand their immediate concerns. we touched every corner of the city we could reach and in doing so i saw things that i will never forget. we saw devastation and destruction, but we also saw incredible acts of kindness we saw neighbors helping neighbors. we saw a community that cares about each other. i'm extremely proud of our e

according to a breakdown of the rouse sandtown winchester project there were plans to build or renovate 1,000 homes. eight years later 900 homes were added. a success - no. this is what that success story looks like in real life. we have houses next to houses still boarded up. there was money for job training, but too few jobs once the training was over. in one programme jobs plus, of 244 eligible households 180 received job playing. by 1988 only 50 were placed in full-time jobs. >> right now a politician is screaming - why can't those people get a job? >> if the politician is screaming at me it's probably a white politician. if it's a black, i don't have bootstraps. >> reporter: also included in the $130 million money to fix schools forced to close because more people were moving out than moving in. even today no one seems to know where all of that money went. how do you spend $130 million and wind up with what you have. >> it's not enough money. business development, investment. >> reporter: how can it not be enough? >> absolutely is not enough. you do the maths. when you drill it dow

according to the breakdown of the sandtown reece winchester project there was a plan to build thousands of new homes. 900 were added. a success? no. this is what that success story looks like. we have houses next to houses boarded up. there was also money set aside for job training but too few jobs once the training was over. in one programme, jobs plus of 244 eligible households. 180 received job place. training. of that many only 50 were placed in full-time jobs. >> reporter: right now there's a politician screaming saying "why can't the people get the jobs?" >> if it's a politician screaming ot me it's probably a white politician if it's a black politician it's someone not in touch with the world. i don't have bootstraps. >> reporter: also including money to fix schools forced to close because more moved out than moving in. even today no one seals to know where all of that money went. how do you spend $100 million and wind up with what you have? >> it's not enough money. business development. >> reporter: how can it not be enough? >> all you do is the maths. when you drill it down to