On the radio program “Marketplace” there was a piece — The economic costs of violence in Chicago
Excerpt from piece: The violence weighs heavily on the boys. And they’ve seen what living with violence does to people.
“People just don’t feel safe going anywhere,” he says. “They have to watch their backs. They feel like they have to carry a weapon on them. They just don’t trust anyone who walks by them. People don’t seem too nice these days.”
It’s hard for the boys to concentrate on the future when the present is so perilous.
But Khalil’s got an idea he thinks could solve a few of Englewood’s problems. “Like all these abandoned fields? They should make more libraries so that I could actually go somewhere in my neighborhood to concentrate,” he says.
It’s a small idea to help solve a giant problem. But maybe his generation is a good place to start.
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