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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 putting former gang members together on the sny, they must be convinced dropouts are sincere in their des...

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 we've got to make this city as great as it was for us, we've got to make it even t better for them. >> reporter: and at this park in little village a latino neighbor hood on chicago's 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 play. so the idea was as a community if we come out here, bring out some balls, hula-hoops, the ide...

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, that's 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 u.s. little village has a serious gang problem and strong ties to mexican drug cartels that supply ...

>> the so-called white man. the white man is the devil. it's absurd. you don't 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. it's about the benjamins to go to them and own what you know. if you're black or anything in america and you know rap music and an industry, own it, grow it -- >> wait a minute. we got to interpret -- >> don't be a hypocrite. >> we got to interpret this differently here because if he thinks that he's going t...

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 there's something in the water here. al capone's 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 prison, and most of chicago's notoriously violent public housing high-rises were torn to the ground. ...