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Approach doesnt work is there are two things. one, we need a better qualitative sense of whats going on in order to come up with the solutions that might work. obviously we dont need any kind of military presence or more police. the police are working hard. in fact, they have done effective work along the lines of managing some of the gang problem there is. this is not all gang related. there is common sense gun safety/gun control issues here. the issues here have are to do with access to jobs a...

More for economic reasons because you can see from where they are coming from, they are coming from the highlands, from the rural areas. those are very very dirt poor communities that the children are leaving. honduras and el salvador on the other hand, they are just having a terrible gang problem. deportation of gang members back in the 1990s. you dont see that in nicaragua. they didnt have that group of deportees resettle in that country and become organized crime as i understand cats. >> obvi...

These countries in honduras and guatemala and el salvador and we got to address that crisis. my former czar for dealing with prevention, intervention with gangs was working with u.s. aid to address the gang problem thats an epidemic there. >> you see the reason many of these kids are coming as legitimate? they are legitimately fearful for their lives in the countries they are living? they are not just coming to look for a better life? >> everything i understand, many of these kids are fleeing th...

Its concentrated in just part of chicago. part of that is a gang problem. then you look at the supply of the kind of guns theyre using in these shootings. that is an indiana problem. there is a gun factory essentially that is streaming guns from a low gun control state like indiana where its easy to go and buy a gun without a whole lot of wait time, without a lot of background check. then the guns are imported back into chicago. you have states that have strong gun laws like illinois that are ha...

We would see a huge amount of orel central american countries children like panama and nicaragua, but three quarters of these kids are from three countries, honduras, el salvador, and guatemala, all of which have seen surges recently in the gang problem. >> dan, 47,000, i think, went up to 60,000 that are expected to try to cross the border? that was not a small number by any means. we know the u.s. is in talks with the countries to try to get the children home faster. a lot of people are lookin...

It got heated. the next thing you know, the dorm filled up with south siders and whites. the cops saw what was going on. she called for yard staff to go over there. they ended up cuffing up the shock collar for the whites and for the south siders, and they ended up patting everybody down, sending everybody home and bunk status for the rest of the night. >> clearly the gang problem is so large, no part of the prison is safe from the politics. before officer garcia and the igi staff consider putti...

Grandparent. and the measure of this city, the measure of who we are will be whether we take care of the next generation and build a future or only worry about our past. and weve got to make this city as great as it was for us, weve got to make it even t better for them. >> reporter: and at this park in little village a latino neighbor hood on chicagos west side is exactly what rob and his wife amy are trying to do. >> hey, how are you? >> six years ago now we started a program called project pl...

We have to make this city as great as it was for us, we have to make it even better for them. >> at this park in little village, a latino neighborhood on the west side, thats what rob and his wife amy are trying to do. >> hey! how are you? >> six years ago we started a program called project play. the idea is as a community if we come out and bring out balls and hula hoops. the idea to get the neighborhood out here. >> for a lot of mexican immigrants it is the principal point of entry in to the ...

>> the so-called white man. the white man is the devil. its absurd. you dont take these people seriously. >> sean, all they want you to do and by the way, the 1 percenter which you stole from me. >> i gave him permission to use it. what they want you to do, the 99% is buy their products. its about the benjamins to go to them and own what you know. if youre black or anything in america and you know rap music and an industry, own it, grow it -- >> wait a minute. we got to interpret -- >> dont be a...

Any particular part of chicago? >> all of it. >> chicago has one of the worst, most difficult, most intractable gang violence problems in the country. >> maybe theres something in the water here. al capones prohibition era outfit put chicago on the map as gangster city. in the 60s, the latin kings ruled. then came larry hoover, the leader of the gangster disciples, and willie lloyd, king of the vice lords. that all fell apart in the 90s when federal indictments sent top gang lieutenants to priso...