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Ultimately backfired because it splintered gangs into more factions. for more on this, google the gulf war, iraq, al qaeda, and isis. ill wait. >> people grandstanding, this is what were going to do to fix chicago. get more police. really? yall been getting more police the last 40 years, dog. stop playing. that aint the solution. >> its not the number of police that solves the problem. there isnt a magic number, once we hit that number, all of a sudden -- suddenly the houses get nicer. the winte...

Right, as a kind of place that we can remove america from. and i wouldnt even say chicago. im thinking parts of chicago. the term hypersegregation was coined because of how segregated chicago as a major city is, which is somewhat different than a lot of other major cities. >> hypersegregation? >> yeah. >> what is that? i lived here. i think i get what that means. >> some cities are more progressive, somehow further along in the intellectual thought process of inclusiveness and diversity. chicago...

And social media. and in chicago, police brutality has been well documented. black lives matter chicago leader has invited me to the south side neighborhood of bronzeville so we can talk about it. and just as i got there, i find kofi filming cops arresting black people. black lives matter has just clocked in. >> yeah, i was just cop watching. i will not sit idly by when they commit a harm against a black person. not going to shoot nobody or beat nobody up on my watch. >> i hear you. think hes ov...

>> love is really -- to be accepted in a group, man, thats human, man. thats any -- >> everybody wants that. >> everybody wants that. >> i know somebody loves me and somebody has my back. >> yes, sir. >> youre still connected to the youth out here. >> oh, yeah, no question. i mean, these shorties is ebk. everybody kill them. theyre not really -- gang structure is different. >> dont be fooled. that structure change was by design. in 1992, chicago had an even higher murder rate of 943 people. as a...

But right now, but not right now. to many people -- because all lives dont really matter in the same way. and then all lives matter is like an aspirational goal. white people, learn from her. >> i love the black lives matter movement. i think its important. and i think -- i wish there was more a focus on education. >> well, lady who was such a big fan of the show she pulled her car over so she can talk, ask, and you shall receive. because my next stop is meeting with one of the leaders of black ...

Following the killing of trayvon martin in 2012, three activists started a hashtag, black lives matter. they had this crazy idea that, i dont know, maybe it shouldnt be cool to kill black people for no reason. their hashtag has turned into a movement and sparked a for some reason polarizing debate. polarizing for some people because for them, shouldnt it be all lives matter? have you heard the phrase black lives matter? >> yeah. >> what do you think about it? >> i dont know if its a color thing,...

Having grown up in chicago, i know that some neighborhoods, even on the south and west side, are as safe as any neighborhoods in this country. but for much of the young black population growing up in the dangerous parts of the south and west side, gang violence has become a way of life. and the violence gets all the headlines. whats life like in these neighborhoods for real? and whats life like in a gang? or as they are called in chicago by some, street organizations. im meeting with somebody wh...

>> outside of chicago people talk about gangs. they dont know who they are, what the names are, how many there are. >> yeah, youve definitely got the stones from right here, the gds, the vice lords, obviously the bds, which is the black disciples. black gangsters, gangster disciples, black p stones, the latin kings, spanish disciples, mickey cobras, spanish cobras, you got the popes, all these different factions. >> yeah, what gang were you? >> 12, blackstone. ever since i was 12 years old. grow...

>> a week ago, two killers out here, two sheetings. people die. it may look like it look now, but it aint sweet. this is one of the most infamous projects. >> i feel like you just invoked the thunder. >> that force. [ laughter ] >> that was verification. no validation needed. >> blue checkmark, you got verified. nationally, when people talk about chicago now, its like the most notorious city in the country. south side and west side gangs. do you think its worse than people think or is it worse? ...

.45 straight through. >> what do you think people need know about what is going on on the south side of chicago? >> its a lot going on. we just talk to about seven to eight youngsters, and it came across to me, as well as others, that were reaching out, but the younger generation is not reaching back out to us. theyre stuck into what theyre doing. somewhere we failed them. we failing -- that one that i failed, that be the [ bleep ] that kill me because i missed out. >> on some level, werent you ...