We see it in the headlines week after week after week—another 30 to 40 people shot in Chicago over the weekend, with a dozen or so fatalities. The numbers seem so mind-boggling that we can sometimes forget that they represent real people, not just statistics quoted by politicians to call for more—and more restrictive—gun control laws. What’s really going on in Chicago? Are the streets as mean as local newspapers would have you believe? And can we have a legitimate opinion concerning the violence on the Windy City’s South Side simply by listening to debates over proposed anti-gun laws? In truth, the violence problem plaguing many Chicago neighborhoods is much more complex than most of us think.

Enter Colion Noir.

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