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(siren wails, gunfire)

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- He's going, he's going!

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Got no guns in there?

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- In this city,
our kids are dying.

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- Semi-automatic handgun
is probably

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the most common gun
used on the streets.

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- I get texts
at all hours of the day

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about shootings and homicides.

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- This has got to stop!

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- We have a public health
crisis.

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- There is a hopeless
generation,

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and it's my generation.

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- We gather with
far too many candles.

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(somber piano music)

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(fireworks pop and crackle)

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- Fourth of July fireworks
erupt into the night sky

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on Milwaukee's lakefront.

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While a mother
drives toward downtown

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to pick up her teenaged sons
as arranged,

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trying to reach them
along the way.

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- I was calling the phones,
calling the phones.

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Their phones wasn't answering.

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- She shoots video
out the window between calls.

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- The panic of every mother
rising in her throat,

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Arifah Akbar just kept dialing.

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- And I just kept calling back,

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maybe, at least,
about five or six times.

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Then I got another answer.

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And this time,
I heard screaming and yelling.

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- Because her youngest,
14-year-old Tariq,

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lay in the street.

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A gunshot wound to the head.

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- You know my son was too young.

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He was too young to die.

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- He just gets shot.

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And there were police
within 50 yards of that.

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Dozens of police
in the vicinity.

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- Boiling point anger
expressed in gunfire

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over simple disputes.

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In this case, police say
the shooting stemmed

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from a Facebook fight
over a girl.

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A dispute
that didn't involve Tariq.

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His mother says he was
walking away from the show

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when shots rang out.

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An unintended target.

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- I heard he was 14
or something like that.
15.

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- Another teenager,
a 15-year-old,

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was charged as an adult
in the shooting.

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The gun has not been recovered.

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- When you turn on the news
every day,

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they're seeing people their age
being shot, murdered

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in their communities.

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- As a middle school teacher,
Tamika Johnson

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knows the hurt children
in her classroom experience.

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She was Tariq's
8th grade teacher

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and says she took
special pleasure

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in guiding
his youthful exuberance.

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Always imagined him
a doctor or lawyer.

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- Tariq was a leader.

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But he was one
that I will always try to

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redirect his leadership skills
in a positive way

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because he was 14.

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Tariq was one that
I really wanted to reach.

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And I do that every year.

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One of my students
that begin off challenging.

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Usually at the end of the year,
they turn out to be my pet.

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Teacher's pet.
So that's what he was.

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- Johnson's own teenaged brother
was murdered in Milwaukee

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23 years ago.

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She can relate to her students

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who have grown up
with gun violence around them.

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- They probably
see death and dread.

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They probably see hopelessness.

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For them, that looks like
that's the only place for us.

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But, that's not true.

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There is life beyond
your current circumstances.

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- Johnson believed
Tariq would be one

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to live beyond
current circumstances.

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Instead, his neat twin bed,

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in a bedroom he shared
with his older brother,

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enshrines his death.

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Photos.

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Basketball trophies.

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And a letter to his family
from dear friends,

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also devastated
by his murder that night

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at the fireworks.

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- 15-year-olds
should not have guns.

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They should not be carrying them
in public places

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and losing their temper
and shooting into a crowd.

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- Sandy Brown
and her husband, Brian,

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were Tariq's
Big Brother and Sister.

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They had known him
since he was seven.

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Taking him out
on their boat,

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playing hoops

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- Double swish.

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- Going to Bucks games.

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- So who are you?
- Tariq!

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- Tell me about yourself, Tariq.

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- I like playing basketball.

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And I love Sandy and Brian.

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- Tariq was
just a joy to be with.

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He was a very smart kid.

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He just liked to laugh.

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He liked to be silly. He liked
to have fun.

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And he really liked people.

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- He was just a good kid.

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He liked to ride bikes,

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play basketball,

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and just hang out
with his friends around here.

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- Tariq's brothers
tried to help him

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as he lay dying that night.

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They could not save him

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and still cannot fully process
his loss.

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- There be times when I wake up,

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I'll be waking up
just to see if he--

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One day I'll wake up

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and he be playing a game
like he always usually do.

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- We'd go everywhere together.

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- The boys in this family
represent a group most likely

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to be victims or perpetrators
of gun violence in Milwaukee.

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Young, black, low income.

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Still, their mother
held her family close.

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- I think his mother, Arifah,

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has done a very good job

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in a tough situation
raising her kids.

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You know, it's certainly
in no way her fault.

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She's done all the right things.

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I think there's
a big segment of our population

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that wants to
somehow blame the victim

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when something like this
happens.

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They want to feel safe.

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They want to say,

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"That would never happen
to me or my family

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so Tariq must have
been a bad kid.

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It must be because he was
black and from the city."

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And it was not at all.

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This was a good kid with a good
family, a good support system,

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friends, plans, dreams.

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All those things
that all of our children have.

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And he was just in the
wrong place at the wrong time.

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It's not because he was bad.

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- I just believe now days that
anybody can get a hold to a gun.

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If it's a kid,
a grown-up, or whatever.

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- That leaves this mother
wondering

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how Milwaukee families
can keep their children safe.

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- I don't believe you can.

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Me personally,
I don't believe you can

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because if you in the house,

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you get a bullet
flying through the window.

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You know it ain't safe nowhere.

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- The fear of random deadly
violence is all too real

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in the city.

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- Almost a year ago
Laylah Petersen was sitting

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at her grandfather's lap
in what most people would assume

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would be the safest position
you could be in your life.

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Then her life ended.

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- Five-year-old Laylah Petersen
died after being struck

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by gunfire when bullets
came through the house

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where she was reading
with her grandfather.

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The crime left the city and the
Milwaukee police chief shaken.

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- This police department
took it hard.

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The officers that were there
took it hard.

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It was very difficult.

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I'll not soon forget

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the professionalism
of the officers

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who were
first responders

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and their sensitivity
to the family

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even as they processed a
brutal and gruesome crime scene.

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(camera shutters clicking)

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- Court records say
the shooting suspects

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were allegedly out for revenge

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in connection
with a separate homicide.

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One of them bragging,
according to court testimony,

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about spraying what
turned out to be the wrong house

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with bullets.

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- They were laughing and talking
about what they had just done.

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Did he recall
any specific statements

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from either of those actors?

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- Yes, he remembered
that he had emptied his clip

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and that he lit up
the whole mother####### thing.

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- It's no longer
to the point where

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if you don't hang out
at the wrong places

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or with the
wrong people,

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then you have nothing to
worry about.

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It's not there anymore.

08:40.167 --> 08:42.500 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- State Representative
La Tonya Johnson

08:42.600 --> 08:44.967 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
lives near this park
in Milwaukee.

08:45.067 --> 08:48.967 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
A park and playground named for
a child shot and killed here

08:49.067 --> 08:50.567 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
20 years ago.

08:50.667 --> 08:53.700 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
She says people promised then
it would never happen again.

08:54.767 --> 08:56.333 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
(basketball bouncing)

08:56.433 --> 08:58.767 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
But just in the past two years,

08:58.867 --> 09:03.233 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
18 children have been
shot and killed in Milwaukee.

09:03.333 --> 09:06.133 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
Their deaths prompting
peak outrage.

09:06.233 --> 09:08.800 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- In this city,
our kids are dying.

09:08.900 --> 09:13.267 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
They're literally dying
from gunshot wounds.

09:13.367 --> 09:16.733 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
And not enough people
seem to care.

09:16.833 --> 09:19.000 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
It makes me angry that

09:19.100 --> 09:23.500 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
we're forcing our kids
to live in communities where,

09:23.600 --> 09:27.233 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
you know, their only way
to show that they're hurting

09:27.333 --> 09:29.367 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
is to put up a memorial.

09:29.467 --> 09:31.833 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
When those kids walk to school,

09:31.933 --> 09:35.700 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
they're walking past
memorial after memorial

09:35.800 --> 09:37.600 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
and this community doesn't think

09:37.700 --> 09:39.700 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
that there's anything
wrong with that.

09:40.867 --> 09:44.067 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- Memorials like this one
that dot the sidewalks

09:44.167 --> 09:47.100 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
in a part of the city
hardest hit by gun violence.

09:48.100 --> 09:50.400 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
This remembrance
marks the life and death

09:50.500 --> 09:53.300 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
of 19-year-old
Malik Williams-Weddle.

09:53.400 --> 09:56.500 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
The 102nd homicide of 2015.

09:56.600 --> 09:59.967 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
He was shot and killed
at home on a summer night.

10:00.067 --> 10:02.233 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
Family members
living in the same house

10:02.333 --> 10:03.733 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
say they don't know why.

10:03.833 --> 10:05.133 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
- I run downstairs

10:05.233 --> 10:07.200 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
and I just see my cousin
lying on the floor.

10:07.300 --> 10:09.067 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
He's bleeding out.

10:09.167 --> 10:10.400 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
His mom on the phone,

10:10.500 --> 10:12.367 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
I guess, with the police.

10:12.467 --> 10:17.133 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- Police say the case
is still under investigation.

10:17.233 --> 10:20.300 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- It's sad.
It's disturbing.

10:20.400 --> 10:22.933 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
It's hurtful.

10:23.033 --> 10:25.300 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
It's emotional...

10:25.400 --> 10:28.800 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
because Malik is, he's my--

10:28.900 --> 10:34.067 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
I have two other cousins
that were murdered.

10:34.167 --> 10:38.867 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
So he's the third cousin that
make murdered in my family.

10:38.967 --> 10:44.133 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
So it's not easy, you know,
dealing with the violence

10:44.233 --> 10:46.067 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
that's going on in Milwaukee.

10:46.167 --> 10:49.333 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- Because Tiffany Weddle
is raising young children here.

10:49.433 --> 10:50.700 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
Like her youngest,

10:50.800 --> 10:54.400 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
who plays amidst memorials
to the murdered.

10:54.500 --> 10:58.300 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- It always surprises
me when people say,

10:58.400 --> 11:01.567 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
"Well what's happening
to the kids these days?"

11:01.667 --> 11:03.433 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
They're living in situations

11:03.533 --> 11:06.633 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
where they're living
in virtual trauma.

11:06.733 --> 11:10.533 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
And we expect things
to be different.

11:10.633 --> 11:13.433 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
Kids who are exposed to violence

11:13.533 --> 11:16.133 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
are more likely
to become violent themselves.

11:16.233 --> 11:19.067 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
It's a repetitive cycle.

11:19.167 --> 11:20.700 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
And it's not going to break

11:20.800 --> 11:22.867 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
unless we do something
to prevent it.

11:26.633 --> 11:29.633 align:left position:37.5%,start line:93.33% size:62.5%
♪

11:31.633 --> 11:35.167 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
(siren wailing)

11:35.267 --> 11:36.667 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
- Right there, right there!

11:36.767 --> 11:38.167 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
- Yup, yup, yup.

11:38.267 --> 11:40.300 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
(engine revving
as it accelerates)

11:40.400 --> 11:42.200 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- He's going,
he's going!

11:44.733 --> 11:46.433 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
- It's called the "power shift."

11:46.533 --> 11:50.233 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
Milwaukee police officers
working a Saturday night

11:50.333 --> 11:53.200 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
responding to "shots fired"
calls all night long.

11:53.300 --> 11:54.767 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
- You got no guns in there?

11:54.867 --> 11:56.333 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- Open the door.
- Just open the door.

11:56.433 --> 11:58.367 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
We're making sure
you got no weapons on 'ya.

11:58.467 --> 12:01.100 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
(gunshots recorded)

12:01.200 --> 12:03.533 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- The calls come in
from central dispatch

12:03.633 --> 12:07.733 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
over a gunshot detection system
called "ShotSpotter."

12:07.833 --> 12:10.367 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- These are all
the "ShotSpotters" for today.

12:10.467 --> 12:14.133 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- The number of gunshots fired
and the exact address

12:14.233 --> 12:17.067 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
go directly
to squad car computers.

12:17.167 --> 12:19.300 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- Our use of it
is basically immediate.

12:19.400 --> 12:21.233 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
Shots fired goes off,
we go to it.

12:21.333 --> 12:23.800 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
- Somebody's in there.

12:23.900 --> 12:26.500 align:left position:25%,start line:80% size:75%
You don't mind
if we look through your car?
- That okay?

12:26.600 --> 12:28.900 align:left position:25%,start line:80% size:75%
- Go ahead.
- Sir, why don't you
come on over here?

12:29.000 --> 12:30.767 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- We're just
looking for guns man.

12:30.867 --> 12:32.200 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
- "ShotSpotter" detected

12:32.300 --> 12:36.900 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
28,311 gunshots fired
in Milwaukee last year.

12:37.000 --> 12:40.167 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
Most of them not
reported by residents.

12:40.267 --> 12:41.733 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- You hear the gunshots
out here?

12:41.833 --> 12:43.133 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- You hear them gunshots
out here?

12:43.233 --> 12:44.933 align:left position:37.5%,start line:86.67% size:62.5%
- No?
- No.

12:46.400 --> 12:49.600 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
- We get a "ShotSpotter"
with ten shots,

12:49.700 --> 12:51.233 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
you know, say on this block.

12:51.333 --> 12:52.967 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
This is a very
well-populated area

12:53.067 --> 12:56.033 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
and you don't get
one single call.

12:56.133 --> 12:59.433 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
And say it ends up
in a shooting.

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And we go knock on the doors
doing a canvas

13:02.367 --> 13:03.800 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
trying to find out
what happened.

13:03.900 --> 13:06.300 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
And the people go,
"Yeah, I heard the shots."

13:06.400 --> 13:07.700 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
And we go,
"Why didn't you call?"

13:07.800 --> 13:11.033 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
Well, they're always shooting
on this block.

13:11.133 --> 13:13.200 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- Gunfire serving
as background noise,

13:13.300 --> 13:15.833 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
leaving police
to rely on technology

13:15.933 --> 13:19.000 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
because people
don't want to get involved.

13:19.100 --> 13:23.533 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
- When we don't speak up, more
or less, we are encouraging it.

13:23.633 --> 13:25.633 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
More or less,
we are promoting it.

13:25.733 --> 13:27.633 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- Retired Milwaukee
police officer

13:27.733 --> 13:30.433 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
and current church elder,
Malcolm Hunt,

13:30.533 --> 13:32.200 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
says he believes
people don't speak up

13:32.300 --> 13:34.233 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
because they're either
afraid of police,

13:34.333 --> 13:36.800 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
or afraid of the criminals,
or both.

13:38.100 --> 13:40.067 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
- Gunfire in this city

13:40.167 --> 13:45.133 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
caused most
of the 145 homicides in 2015.

13:45.233 --> 13:48.867 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
That number represents
a 69% increase in homicides

13:48.967 --> 13:50.433 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
from the year before.

13:50.533 --> 13:54.933 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
Another 635 people in Milwaukee
were shot and wounded.

13:55.033 --> 13:58.800 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- That says we're in
public health crisis.

13:58.900 --> 14:01.300 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- Dr. Mallory O'Brien
is founding director

14:01.400 --> 14:04.400 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
of the Milwaukee Homicide
Review Commission...

14:04.500 --> 14:08.767 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- The largest increases have
really been seen in District 7.

14:08.867 --> 14:11.067 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
They have a 250% increase.

14:11.167 --> 14:14.900 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- ...which tracks crime
with the aim of preventing it.

14:15.000 --> 14:17.567 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- We know that our suspects
are African American males.

14:17.667 --> 14:20.167 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
We know that they tend
to have arrest histories.

14:20.267 --> 14:24.967 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
We know that they tend to have
some kind of drug arrest

14:25.067 --> 14:27.533 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
in their history.

14:27.633 --> 14:29.900 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
- In fact, O'Brien's 2015 data

14:30.000 --> 14:34.300 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
show that young black males
aged 15 to 24 in Milwaukee

14:34.400 --> 14:39.667 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
are homicide victims at a rate
of 187 per 100,000.

14:39.767 --> 14:43.700 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
For young white males,
it's four per 100,000.

14:43.800 --> 14:46.200 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
- This has got to stop.

14:46.300 --> 14:48.867 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- So I get texts
at all hours of the day

14:48.967 --> 14:51.133 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
about shootings and homicides.

14:51.233 --> 14:53.533 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
- The city's mayor, Tom Barrett.

14:53.633 --> 14:55.467 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- I usually expect
to see the same thing.

14:55.567 --> 14:58.500 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
I usually expect
to see a young person.

14:58.600 --> 15:01.167 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
Sadly, I usually expect to see
that the person is going to be

15:01.267 --> 15:03.933 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
a young African American,
and a male,

15:04.033 --> 15:06.000 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
and usually I'm right.

15:06.100 --> 15:08.833 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- Barrett says he literally
and figuratively

15:08.933 --> 15:11.533 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
carries these deaths with him.

15:11.633 --> 15:13.200 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
During his years
as Milwaukee mayor,

15:13.300 --> 15:17.533 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
he's never erased
a single one of the messages.

15:17.633 --> 15:18.967 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
There are hundreds.

15:19.067 --> 15:22.000 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
- Who is the only one

15:22.100 --> 15:25.467 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
or who is the one
qualified and capable

15:25.567 --> 15:29.633 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
of comforting those who mourn?

15:29.733 --> 15:32.100 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
Especially those who mourn

15:32.200 --> 15:36.000 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
because their loved one
has been murdered?

15:36.100 --> 15:38.533 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
- We gather...

15:38.633 --> 15:41.267 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
with far too many candles.

15:41.367 --> 15:43.767 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
- We gather here

15:43.867 --> 15:47.533 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
to acknowledge
our collective shame

15:47.633 --> 15:49.400 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
for these candles.

15:49.500 --> 15:52.700 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- Elected office holders
attend vigils and funerals

15:52.800 --> 15:55.467 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
to pay their respects
for the many victims.

15:55.567 --> 15:59.433 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- Shanice McClain
was 17 years old.

15:59.533 --> 16:02.033 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- Milwaukee State Representative
La Tonya Johnson

16:02.133 --> 16:05.333 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
remembers one
for a 17-year-old girl.

16:05.433 --> 16:08.333 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- I looked around
that funeral home

16:08.433 --> 16:12.500 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
and there were so many
young individuals there.

16:12.600 --> 16:14.667 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
And I did something
that I never do.

16:14.767 --> 16:17.300 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
I stood up and I apologized.

16:17.400 --> 16:22.000 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
I apologized for allowing them
to live in a city

16:22.100 --> 16:25.000 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
where a lot of them don't know

16:25.100 --> 16:27.700 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
if they're going to make it
to age 18.

16:27.800 --> 16:29.833 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
(car door opens)
- How 'ya doing, bud?

16:29.933 --> 16:33.300 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- Between violent crime calls,
officers ride the city...

16:33.400 --> 16:35.700 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- Ain't got no guns.
- Got no guns on you? Alright.

16:35.800 --> 16:37.200 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
- ...looking to preemptively

16:37.300 --> 16:40.167 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
take guns and shooters
off the streets.

16:40.267 --> 16:41.567 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
- You're 25?

16:41.667 --> 16:43.100 align:left position:37.5%,start line:93.33% size:62.5%
- I'm 25.

16:43.200 --> 16:46.133 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
- They interact with young men.

16:46.233 --> 16:48.033 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- I've talked to guys
where I've told them,

16:48.133 --> 16:51.367 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
"If you don't change
your way of life right now,

16:51.467 --> 16:55.200 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
you're going to wind up dead."

16:55.300 --> 16:57.467 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
And they don't care.

16:57.567 --> 17:01.400 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
They flat out told us,
"I don't care if I die."

17:01.500 --> 17:05.067 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- Upping the odds all-around
of danger and death.

17:05.167 --> 17:08.400 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
- Black male in his 20s, gray
hooded sweatshirt, red pants,

17:08.500 --> 17:11.300 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
standing in front of the bus

17:11.400 --> 17:13.233 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
and is still pointing the gun.

17:13.333 --> 17:15.033 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
- A report from a bus driver.

17:15.133 --> 17:16.833 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- Who said that?
- I don't know.

17:16.933 --> 17:18.500 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
Someone called in
and said you had a gun on him.

17:18.600 --> 17:20.200 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
- He goes around the corner.

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He just launched it
as far as he can.

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By the time
I'm around the corner,

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he's got his hands
in his pockets like,

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"What? What?
I didn't do nothing."

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- The gunman whipped the weapon
into the intersection

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as officers descended.

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No one was injured.

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- I just want to take
a close-up of this one.

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- This two-squad crew
in Milwaukee's
busiest police district...

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- It's loaded.

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- ...seized 120 guns
from arrests last year.

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- Able to unload it?

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- Semi-automatic handguns
would be

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probably the most common gun
used on the streets.

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- These are all
semi-automatic handguns.

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You have a Glock.

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You have a Hi-Point.

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- In total, Milwaukee police
have recovered

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12,780 guns since 2010.

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2,500 of them
last year alone.

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The highest number
in the past five years.

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They're kept at this police
repository in the city.

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- We just know
and we're prepared that,

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in every situation someone
could be carrying a firearm.

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- I think of our homicides,

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close to 90% were gun related.

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So it's a gun issue.

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There's no question
it's a gun issue.

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You can have Second Amendment
conversations all day long,

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but people are being killed
by guns.

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- There's an old bumper sticker
that the NRA had

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from many years ago that said,

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"If you outlaw guns,
only outlaws will have guns"

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and there's truth to that.

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That individuals who are
committing crimes with guns,

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they don't care about
legally possessing them.

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- Wisconsin Attorney General,
Brad Schimel,

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says rules like
universal background checks

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only make it more difficult
for law-abiding gun owners

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to purchase or transfer
a firearm

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and are not stopping
the criminals.

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- 90% of my crime guns
have been legally purchased.

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Legally purchased.

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- Milwaukee Police Chief
Ed Flynn

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describes how that's possible.

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- Girlfriend of criminal

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goes up to Gander Mountain
or Cabela's.

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Buys the gun
she's been asked to buy.

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She has no criminal record.

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Brings it home.
Gives it to her boyfriend.

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Maybe she buys two guns,
couple days apart.

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- So people have
this heightened urgency

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to feel safe.

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And I believe most people think
that that'll be accomplished

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if they have a gun.

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And in some areas of this city,

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I can understand the need to
have a gun more so, than not.

19:44.233 --> 19:46.633 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- The cops say they
hear that a lot.

19:46.733 --> 19:48.033 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
- "It's dangerous out here.

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I'm just carrying it
for protection."

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And, you know, honestly,
I don't blame them.

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I really don't.

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- But what we want to make sure

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is that those guns are not
falling into the wrong hands.

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And we've seen that over
and over again that is has.

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Milwaukee has a time-to-crime
of six months.

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And that's the time
from when a gun is purchased

20:11.433 --> 20:14.833 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
to the actual time it's used
in a violent act or a crime

20:14.933 --> 20:16.267 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
on the streets.

20:16.367 --> 20:18.533 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
- The Milwaukee streets where

20:18.633 --> 20:21.100 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
most of the crime
and gun violence happen

20:21.200 --> 20:22.800 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
are in the central part
of the city,

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often tracked by zip codes.

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- My feeling is

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that the Wisconsin residents
who happen to live in Milwaukee

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should not be relegated
to a life of crime

20:33.700 --> 20:38.033 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
because they live
in a particular zip code, okay?

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- And we've overlaid
the census data with...

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- Dr. O'Brien says when
demographic data is overlaid

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in the areas where shootings
occur, there's a common theme.

20:47.233 --> 20:49.067 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
- There's high poverty

20:49.167 --> 20:52.033 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
in the neighborhoods
where we see the violence.

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There's high unemployment.

20:53.767 --> 20:57.533 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
There is high female
head of household,

20:57.633 --> 20:59.900 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
low education attained.

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- The overall primary factor
was an argument-fight.

21:03.067 --> 21:04.700 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
It stemmed from a disagreement

21:04.800 --> 21:07.333 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
that some of the subjects
at the party had.

21:07.433 --> 21:09.267 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- The commission's
crime tracking shows

21:09.367 --> 21:12.933 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
emerging causes for
deadly violence in Milwaukee.

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In 2015, the city saw
a 127% increase in retaliation

21:19.700 --> 21:21.900 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
as the reason for a homicide

21:22.000 --> 21:25.600 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
and a 76% jump
in simple disputes.

21:25.700 --> 21:30.067 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
- We had a case
that we reviewed yesterday

21:30.167 --> 21:31.600 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
where there were two individuals

21:31.700 --> 21:33.367 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
and they were fighting over

21:33.467 --> 21:36.500 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
who had the prettier girlfriend.

21:36.600 --> 21:38.767 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
And we have someone dead.

21:39.933 --> 21:42.333 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- Not being able
to see him anymore.

21:44.333 --> 21:48.367 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- Tariq Akbar's mother
knows all too well.

21:48.467 --> 21:51.867 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
Her young son died over angry
words in a Facebook post

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that didn't even involve him.

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- It's not safe nowhere period.

21:56.067 --> 21:59.633 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
It's not like back then
when you can go have fun

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with your friends and
you know a fight will break out.

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But now it's just shooting
and it's just crazy.

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- Even if it's not
your own family,

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the city's violence and gunfire
leaves its mark.

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- I had a friend who ran
a daycare center in Milwaukee

22:18.933 --> 22:22.033 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
and she was taking the kids
on a walk around the block.

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And this is in a neighborhood
that I would not be

22:24.500 --> 22:27.400 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
at all concerned
about walking around the block.

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And there was
a car that backfired.

22:30.800 --> 22:32.300 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
And she said
half of the children

22:32.400 --> 22:35.200 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
ducked down and
laid under a tree.

22:35.300 --> 22:37.267 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
- Dr. Marlene Melzer-Lange works

22:37.367 --> 22:41.800 align:left position:0%,start line:80% size:100%
in Pediatric Emergency Medicine
at Children's Hospital
of Wisconsin,

22:41.900 --> 22:44.733 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
specializing in
violently injured youth.

22:44.833 --> 22:48.367 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
She says while trauma
and stress is worst

22:48.467 --> 22:52.000 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
for those injured themselves
or families of victims,

22:52.100 --> 22:55.533 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
entire communities
are taking cover.

22:55.633 --> 22:57.433 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- You become
much more protective.

22:57.533 --> 23:00.600 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
Parents become
much more protective

23:00.700 --> 23:03.033 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
and worried about letting
their child go to school,

23:03.133 --> 23:04.933 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
letting them go out
on playgrounds,

23:05.033 --> 23:07.300 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
letting them actually be a kid.

23:07.400 --> 23:11.133 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
- It is scary because
I have to catch the bus home.

23:11.233 --> 23:13.833 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
I could probably walk

23:13.933 --> 23:15.433 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
into somebody's getting
into an argument,

23:15.533 --> 23:17.067 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
they might start shooting.

23:17.167 --> 23:20.600 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
I could get hit
with an un-named bullet.

23:20.700 --> 23:22.533 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
- Then when you hear
that it's close to you

23:22.633 --> 23:24.967 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
or it's been in your backyard
or it's happening around you,

23:25.067 --> 23:27.267 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
you're scared and you
just want to stay in one place

23:27.367 --> 23:28.867 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
and nothing will happen to you.

23:28.967 --> 23:31.933 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- They don't know nobody
in the community.

23:32.033 --> 23:33.867 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
They don't socialize
with people.

23:33.967 --> 23:37.867 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
So there's a lot of things
within the inner city

23:37.967 --> 23:39.333 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
that is going on.

23:39.433 --> 23:42.133 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
People feel trapped
in the inner city because

23:42.233 --> 23:43.567 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
at nighttime,

23:43.667 --> 23:46.033 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
it's kind of like
you're living in a war zone.

23:46.133 --> 23:50.333 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
And a lot of times when the sun
go down, people in their house.

23:50.433 --> 23:53.000 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
They're afraid to come outside.

23:55.900 --> 23:58.900 align:left position:37.5%,start line:93.33% size:62.5%
♪

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- Welcome back.

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So, it's a complicated issue.

24:04.967 --> 24:08.400 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
And guns and gun violence...

24:08.500 --> 24:13.133 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- It's a frequent topic on
Milwaukee radio station W-N-O-V.

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The conversation: wide ranging.

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- Caller, good morning.
How are you?

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You're on the air.
Go ahead.

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- Thank you for taking my call,
Sherwin.

24:21.200 --> 24:25.300 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
When I see a black young man
walking down the street, I stop.

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And I give him a hug.

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And I say, "I'm so sorry,

24:28.867 --> 24:32.233 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
"as a black man, that you have
to go through this in America."

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And this is how
we start this conversation.

24:34.867 --> 24:39.433 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- From the perspective
of a law maker...

24:39.533 --> 24:41.600 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- Studio guest,
state Senator Lena Taylor,

24:41.700 --> 24:43.000 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
is a regular on the air.

24:43.100 --> 24:44.467 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
- We need to deal
with literacy.

24:44.567 --> 24:45.767 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
We need to deal
with opportunity.

24:45.867 --> 24:48.200 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
We need to deal with teaching
people to have a voice,

24:48.300 --> 24:51.800 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
so that people don't feel
that just, you know,

24:51.900 --> 24:55.367 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
shooting somebody, right,
is the first response.

24:55.467 --> 24:58.200 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
Or a response, right,

24:58.300 --> 25:00.700 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
to disagreements
and to issues that exist.

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- W-N-O-V 860 AM "The Voice."

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You're listening toThe Forum.
I'm your host Sherwin Hughes.

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Defense attorney Dan Adams
in the studio.

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So is the senator
from the 4th District.

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That is Lena Taylor.
Keep it locked.

25:10.567 --> 25:14.067 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- Listeners of this community
station are all too familiar

25:14.167 --> 25:16.233 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
with what's playing out
on the street.

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- You ain't never seen
a pee pee like this.

25:18.333 --> 25:19.633 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
- You know that.

25:19.733 --> 25:22.433 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
And you ain't never seen a 33...
- Mike, don't kick it at me.

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- Like the brandishing
of weapons in broad daylight.

25:25.633 --> 25:27.900 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
Depicted here
in a video shown in court

25:28.000 --> 25:29.833 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
at a defendant's sentencing.

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- These are generally
young men

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who've been miseducated
or uneducated.

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Their family's structures
are decimated.

25:37.733 --> 25:43.167 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
They have really very little
in terms of pride in themselves.

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Certainly, very little pride

25:45.033 --> 25:47.300 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
in their neighborhood
and their community.

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And so what do they do to build
up that pride

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and that feeling of self
and that feeling of identity

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of "I am a man.

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"I am consequential."

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They go and they get a gun.

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- Commentators note
lack of pride, loss of hope.

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But what led to that?

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Milwaukee's negative statistics
and the people living them

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may point the way.

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Starting with the 37% jobless
rate for African American men.

26:15.700 --> 26:17.733 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
- Milwaukee's employment
situation,

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particularly for black males,

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is as bad as it's ever been

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for black males "in their prime
age years" as economists call it

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between the ages of 25 and 54.

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- University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee professor,

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Marc Levine.

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- We know that segregation
plays a very important role.

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Milwaukee being the most, one of
the most segregated metropolitan

26:37.533 --> 26:40.067 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
areas in the county means
that African Americans are

26:40.167 --> 26:43.167 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
concentrated in the central city
here to a greater extent than

26:43.267 --> 26:45.333 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
almost any place in the country.

26:45.433 --> 26:46.833 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
- And he points to more.

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- There are big education gaps

26:48.267 --> 26:50.667 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
between blacks and whites
in Milwaukee.

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And that explains a big chunk of
the differences in employment.

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- Unemployment
results in poverty.

26:58.767 --> 27:03.500 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
The overall poverty rate
in Milwaukee is 29.4%.

27:03.600 --> 27:06.433 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
For its white population,
the rate is 18.7%.

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For African Americans
in the city, it's 40.4%.

27:11.733 --> 27:15.167 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
And all of these
negative statistics.

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These cumulative disadvantages

27:17.233 --> 27:21.467 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
have historical, multi-
generational underpinnings.

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- The period between 1970
and 1990 was the period where

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the bottom really dropped out of
Milwaukee's industrial economy.

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And that's where
the conditions that we see

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in Milwaukee's inner-city
affecting African Americans

27:31.933 --> 27:33.167 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
really took hold.

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(loud crashing sound)

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- But certain conditions
took hold even earlier.

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- A man got eight kids
and he makes pretty good money.

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And he can't
get into decent housing

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because he's a Negro or
because you got too many kids.

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That just don't seem right.

27:53.667 --> 27:56.067 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
- This 1968 film

27:56.167 --> 27:59.333 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
documented urban renewal
programs in Milwaukee.

27:59.433 --> 28:02.667 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
Programs that tore down
dilapidated houses

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that many African American
families called home.

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Families like
Homer and Delores Sheridan,
and their eight children,

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struggling to make it.

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There's no feeling,
no happiness there.

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There's a feeling of just gloom,
nothing but gloom.

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- Gloom and despair,
compounded by segregation.

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Only to be followed
over the next two decades

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by the bottom dropping out
of the manufacturing economy.

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So what happened to
the Sheridan family,

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the children of Delores and
Homer, seen in this film?

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How did the changing landscape
of Milwaukee through the years

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treat that younger generation?

28:42.300 --> 28:45.600 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
- I had this ideal that

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we all were going to grow up
and go to college.

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Dad was going to buy us
our first car.

28:50.567 --> 28:55.167 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
And we'd become successful
teachers, doctors, lawyers.

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- That is not what happened
for Nora and Kim Sheridan

28:59.233 --> 29:04.000 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
or their siblings, whose father,
Homer, was a welder in 1968.

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- Feel like you're
just working in vain.

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Then they wanna, like, they
say, "Well why does this man--"

29:10.633 --> 29:14.067 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
They'll say, "He's not hisself
no more, he's drinking."

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He done start to drinking.

29:15.533 --> 29:19.333 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- There was a lot of truth
to what my dad was saying about

29:19.433 --> 29:22.633 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
he's working
an honest-paying job.

29:22.733 --> 29:26.233 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
And he can't go out and find
a decent home for his family,

29:26.333 --> 29:28.267 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
which causes him--

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which caused men like that

29:30.400 --> 29:35.533 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
to become alcoholics
or drug-abusers

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or abandoning their family.

29:39.100 --> 29:41.167 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
And that's exactly what happened
to our family.

29:41.267 --> 29:42.867 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
- It's just nerve-racking.

29:42.967 --> 29:45.300 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
You ain't got
no peace in the home now.

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- The women say first
their father left.

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- That's all I got
to say about it right now.

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- And he's not in proper order.

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And his wife is always angry.

29:54.233 --> 29:56.133 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
- Then, their mother.

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- It's nice.

29:57.600 --> 29:59.400 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
They have a really nice garden
over here.

29:59.500 --> 30:02.700 align:left position:25%,start line:80% size:75%
- As they walk
the old neighborhood
in the central city...

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- Oh, just think.

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How long ago was that, 1968?
1968?

30:07.833 --> 30:10.000 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- They describe
how the nine children,

30:10.100 --> 30:12.500 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
ranging from toddlers
to teenagers,

30:12.600 --> 30:14.733 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
fended for themselves

30:14.833 --> 30:18.233 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
in a house where the city
eventually placed the family.

30:18.333 --> 30:20.833 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
- And it was rat-infested.

30:20.933 --> 30:23.467 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
So we used to
all jump in the bed together

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because we were scared
of a rat, you know.

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- Too afraid to ask for help
for fear of being separated.

30:29.933 --> 30:32.700 align:left position:12.5%,start line:80% size:87.5%
- It's really hard
to concentrate when you're
starving to death.

30:32.800 --> 30:37.733 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
Many a days, you know,
just being ridiculed in school

30:37.833 --> 30:40.800 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
about your stomach
growling so loud

30:40.900 --> 30:43.000 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
because you hadn't eaten
in days.

30:43.100 --> 30:45.400 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
And you're dirty
and you're going to school.

30:47.467 --> 30:51.400 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- Even so, Kim Sheridan stayed
in school and attended college.

30:51.500 --> 30:54.133 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
Employed today in
a doctor's office.

30:54.233 --> 30:56.800 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- This house used
to be huge, too.

30:56.900 --> 31:01.100 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
Her sister Nora has had long
stretches of unemployment.

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They say many of their siblings

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got caught up
in crime and drugs.

31:06.533 --> 31:10.067 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
The scars of their upbringing,
they say, run deep.

31:10.167 --> 31:11.633 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
(Homer Sheridan:)
- Because he's so disgusted.

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And then he got a job.
They want you to have a job.

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- The sisters saw the film.

31:17.233 --> 31:20.033 align:left position:25%,start line:80% size:75%
(Homer Sheridan:)
- You got a place for me to go?
"No, I'm sorry."

31:20.133 --> 31:22.600 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- Hearing their father speak
in it for the first time

31:22.700 --> 31:24.833 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
just days before this interview.

31:24.933 --> 31:28.167 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- And when he left, and under
the circumstances that he left,

31:28.267 --> 31:30.200 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
I began to hate him.

31:30.300 --> 31:33.067 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
And I didn't
understand his plight.

31:33.167 --> 31:35.700 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
I really didn't
until I saw that film

31:35.800 --> 31:37.700 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
'cuz it gave me
a whole perspective

31:37.800 --> 31:40.000 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
on what it's like
to be a black man

31:40.100 --> 31:44.167 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
raising a large family
in the inner city.

31:44.267 --> 31:48.800 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- Nora Sheridan says she gained
perspective and finally forgave.

31:48.900 --> 31:52.000 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
But still she says,
she is bitter.

31:52.100 --> 31:55.400 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- It all falls back to the same
thing, going back to 1960--

31:55.500 --> 32:00.100 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
is that society doesn't care
about the black community.

32:00.200 --> 32:03.133 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- The sisters say
they are angry

32:03.233 --> 32:05.767 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
about generation
after generation

32:05.867 --> 32:09.000 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
living in pockets of grinding
poverty in Milwaukee,

32:09.100 --> 32:10.967 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
and all that it brings.

32:11.067 --> 32:14.767 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
Including, as in their case,
the loss of family role models.

32:14.867 --> 32:17.200 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- And a lot of times what
happens in their neighborhood

32:17.300 --> 32:21.433 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
when the sun goes down is
shootings, drugs, prostitution

32:21.533 --> 32:23.933 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
and that's all they know.

32:24.033 --> 32:26.933 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
Unfortunately, there's
no one else to educate them

32:27.033 --> 32:28.933 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
and show them
something different.

32:29.033 --> 32:33.133 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- The black family
is being destroyed.

32:33.233 --> 32:35.933 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
The majority of the black
family does not have a father.

32:37.400 --> 32:39.900 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- The Sheridan children watched
their parents leave home

32:40.000 --> 32:41.900 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
in the early 1970s.

32:42.000 --> 32:45.400 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
Nearly 50 years later,
the trend continues for

32:45.500 --> 32:49.400 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
disadvantaged or dysfunctional
families in the city.

32:49.500 --> 32:53.967 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
For many, stable home lives can
be split apart by razor wire.

32:54.067 --> 32:57.133 align:left position:25%,start line:80% size:75%
- That means all
of the social conditions
associated with poverty,

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such as higher rates of crime.

32:59.700 --> 33:01.367 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
Ultimately, higher
rates of crime

33:01.467 --> 33:04.100 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
leading to the epidemic
of mass incarceration.

33:04.200 --> 33:06.300 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
Again, we're standing
in a neighborhood here

33:06.400 --> 33:09.633 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
that's the epicenter
for mass incarceration.

33:09.733 --> 33:13.833 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- As a state, Wisconsin ranks
among the highest in the nation

33:13.933 --> 33:16.733 align:left position:37.5%,start line:86.67% size:62.5%
for rates
of black incarceration.

33:16.833 --> 33:19.367 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
Most of that population
coming from Milwaukee.

33:19.467 --> 33:23.067 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
- My father did
15 years in prison

33:23.167 --> 33:25.167 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
from the time I was three to 18.

33:25.267 --> 33:28.933 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- 22-year-old Brandon Burks
is now serving a short sentence

33:29.033 --> 33:31.767 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
at the Milwaukee
House of Correction himself,

33:31.867 --> 33:34.367 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
but vows not to
repeat the cycle.

33:34.467 --> 33:36.667 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
He knows the mark
an absent father leaves.

33:36.767 --> 33:38.900 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- I think if a lot
of fathers were there,

33:39.000 --> 33:42.200 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
that it would be
a lot less violence

33:42.300 --> 33:44.000 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
and a lot less anger
within the child.

33:44.100 --> 33:45.933 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
- How many of you

33:46.033 --> 33:48.700 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
would do anything in the world
for your children?

33:48.800 --> 33:51.467 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- Helping inmates
understand that anger

33:51.567 --> 33:53.433 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
and reconnect
with their families,

33:53.533 --> 33:55.133 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
the director of an organization

33:55.233 --> 33:58.200 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
called the
Milwaukee Fatherhood Initiative:

33:58.300 --> 33:59.567 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
Dennis Walton.

33:59.667 --> 34:02.800 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
- We try to get men to really
just do a reflection on

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when you look at the fact
that you're incarcerated

34:06.533 --> 34:09.633 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
and you're absent
from the life of your child.

34:09.733 --> 34:13.000 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
Let's talk about your father.
Was your father incarcerated?

34:13.100 --> 34:16.167 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
And was your father absent
from you in that same manner?

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And a lot of times,
there's a direct correlation.

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So the behavior becomes
perpetuated generationally.

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- I got like 120 days left.

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Got two kids: two boys.

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- Burks hopes for a different
future for his children.

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- I want to give them
everything I didn't have

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and a lot more.

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And I don't want them to end up
in a place like this at all,

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'cause it's not a place
for anyone.

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- The men in our community
that have had setbacks

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can really change
their lives around

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by going back into communities
they've been a part of,

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destroying or hurting,

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and making sure that the
generations coming behind them

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don't repeat those same things.

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- Repeating those same things
like committing crimes,

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(clank)
being put behind bars.

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- Open the ####### door

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or I'm going to break
the ####### window.

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- Open the door, man.

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(glass shattering)

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- And doing it all over again
for lack of opportunity.

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- Everybody keep your hands up!

35:16.867 --> 35:19.833 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- Or lack of hope
or just sheer anger.

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- Now your gun can
be economic activity.

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- Back on the radio,

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the discussion
takes up the same points.

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Loss of family, loss of jobs,
poverty.

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- Now you can get a gun

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and your gun can be your
means to an end to get income.

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You can rob someone.

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You can use it
to intimidate someone,

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but if there is
economic opportunity,

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people don't look around
for other tools, especially
dangerous ones.

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- Brandon Methu
is a Milwaukee millennial

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who has found economic success

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by way of a college degree
and good job.

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But he speaks out

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on an additional barrier to
opportunity for young black men.

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- I grew up with police officers
in my school.

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I grew up with suspensions

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turned into
battery and assault charges.

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In a school-to-prison pipeline
that was very real,
(applause)

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and it took the lives
of many of my peers.

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- And Methu says
he knows all too well

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the generational mind-set of
young black males in Milwaukee.

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The demographic
overly represented

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as victims and suspects
in gun crimes.

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- Happy people don't
shoot people.

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Happy people don't kill people.
Happy people don't rob people.

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These folks, I would consider
them having PTSD

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with all the gun violence,
with all the violence in general

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that they see growing up
in these neighborhoods

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with the lack of opportunity.

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There is a hopeless generation
and it's my generation.

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(piano music)

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- We're the largest city
in the state,

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and you can't write off
the largest city in the state.

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- If we can fix some of
the problems in Milwaukee,

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it definitely will make
things better for Wisconsin.

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- This really has to be
"All hands on deck."

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- Already, so many hands
work on so many fronts.

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- We're up actually 77%
right now for homicides.

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- To cure the despair

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that blows up at the end
of a gun barrel in Milwaukee,

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hoping against hope
for the right prescription.

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- I want this to be a city where
in every single neighborhood...

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- Yes!

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- ...a grandma can
sit on her front porch

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and watch her grandkids play
safely in their front yard.

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- Milwaukee's mayor
calls it a simple vision.

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- And that means having
adequate police presence.

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That means having
an engaged citizenry

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that are going to
work with the police.

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So you have to build that trust

37:48.300 --> 37:51.033 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
between the community
and the police department.

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It means having jobs.

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Particularly, getting
the young people in jobs.

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- Young people in jobs, like
17-year-old Dealonte Ragsdale.

37:59.667 --> 38:03.700 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
He says he's building a resume
and wants one day to be a chef.

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- I learn how to not be messy
when I make food.

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I learn manners.

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I learn how to be respectful.

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(hot grease bubbles)

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- He makes fried chicken and
French fries

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for the in-house café

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at an organization
called "Running Rebels."

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Ragsdale has been going to the
non-profit after school program

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most days since he was nine.

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(billiard balls clanking)

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- He joins hundreds of
grade-schoolers and teens

38:34.933 --> 38:38.600 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
who live difficult, stressful,
even traumatic lives

38:38.700 --> 38:40.333 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
outside these walls.

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- It's comfortable here
and it's secure.

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When people come here,

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they don't even think about the
negative things that affect them

38:46.500 --> 38:48.533 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
because they come here
to have a good time,

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to get better at something,
to learn.

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Even if they want to
just come up here and like,

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"You know what, I need help
with my math homework.

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Really, honestly,
that's all I need."

38:56.500 --> 38:58.633 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
- Davonte Hill came as a child

38:58.733 --> 39:00.733 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
and now works
for the organization.

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That's true
for many adults on staff.

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- We probably have
over 10 young men

39:08.500 --> 39:10.100 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
that work at this agency.

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And they were part of
this agency when they were kids.

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So, to me, that's definitely
success because they learned.

39:16.100 --> 39:19.400 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
One of the main things
that I wanted them to learn

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was giving back.

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So they get it and go away to
college and then they come back

39:24.267 --> 39:27.033 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
and then they help us with the
next generation of young people.

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- I told people that
they would have a chance to

39:29.667 --> 39:31.933 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
get exposure and perform.

39:32.033 --> 39:36.433 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- Victor Barnett started
Running Rebels 35 years ago.

39:36.533 --> 39:39.567 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
His wife joined as co-director
when they married.

39:39.667 --> 39:43.600 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- So the computers going to
scan until somebody does what?

39:43.700 --> 39:47.733 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- Programs range from computer
training to team sports.

39:47.833 --> 39:52.000 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
From chef skills to in-house
music recording and performance.

39:52.100 --> 39:54.300 align:left position:37.5%,start line:86.67% size:62.5%
(singing)
♪ Let's put our hands up

39:54.400 --> 39:55.733 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
♪ And put your guns down

39:55.833 --> 39:57.533 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
♪ 'Cause there's
too much bloodshed

39:57.633 --> 39:59.933 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
♪ In the streets now

40:00.033 --> 40:03.733 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- Davonte Hill mentors students
in Milwaukee Public Schools,

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and here after school,
on conflict resolution.

40:07.667 --> 40:10.233 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
How to peacefully
resolve disputes,

40:10.333 --> 40:14.067 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
a growing cause of gun
violence according to experts.

40:14.167 --> 40:19.167 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
He says he can relate to that
violence and the fear it brings.

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As a six-year-old,

40:20.800 --> 40:23.867 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
he was shot and wounded
while playing outside.

40:23.967 --> 40:26.767 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- I think for them just hearing
my story, and knowing that

40:26.867 --> 40:29.900 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
I'm connected, and
I can relate to their stories.

40:30.000 --> 40:31.767 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
They feel more comfortable
telling me

40:31.867 --> 40:33.800 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
a little bit more
about their background

40:33.900 --> 40:36.000 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
and why they make decisions
that they make.

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They may be able to say like,

40:37.500 --> 40:39.433 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
this tragedy I experienced
in my life

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has kind of led me
to be the way that I am

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and the reason why I handle
things the way I handle them.

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- So when young people
come here,

40:47.267 --> 40:49.233 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
they really feel like
they're surrounded by a family.

40:49.333 --> 40:50.667 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
Like multiple people,

40:50.767 --> 40:54.700 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
got their back and are looking
out for their best interest.

40:54.800 --> 40:57.200 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
And that's a good feeling
for them to have.

40:57.300 --> 41:00.800 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
(rap/dance music)

41:00.900 --> 41:03.533 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- Running Rebels
has been practicing its version

41:03.633 --> 41:07.733 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
of trauma-informed programming
for more than three decades.

41:07.833 --> 41:09.867 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
Programming that
others serving children

41:09.967 --> 41:13.100 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
only more recently
have come to embrace.

41:13.200 --> 41:15.167 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
The Milwaukee Public
School District

41:15.267 --> 41:17.433 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
is training teachers system-wide

41:17.533 --> 41:21.300 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
toward what they're calling
trauma-sensitive schools.

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Educating the educators
on the effect

41:23.667 --> 41:27.433 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
of adverse or traumatic
experiences in childhood

41:27.533 --> 41:32.000 align:left position:12.5%,start line:80% size:87.5%
including things like
incarceration, neglect,
or violence.

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The district's recent
training materials

41:34.167 --> 41:37.800 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
included a TED talk by
a pediatric expert who explains

41:37.900 --> 41:42.700 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
how toxic stress and traumatic
experiences impede learning by,

41:42.800 --> 41:45.667 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
very literally,
causing brain injury.

41:45.767 --> 41:48.500 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
- It inhibits
the prefrontal cortex

41:48.600 --> 41:52.367 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
which is necessary for impulse
control and executive function,

41:52.467 --> 41:54.600 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
a critical area for learning.

41:54.700 --> 41:56.500 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
And on MRI scans,

41:56.600 --> 42:00.533 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
we see measurable differences
in the amygdala,

42:00.633 --> 42:03.633 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
the brain's
fear response center.

42:03.733 --> 42:06.800 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
So there are
real neurologic reasons

42:06.900 --> 42:09.833 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
why folks exposed
to high doses of adversity

42:09.933 --> 42:13.133 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
are more likely to engage
in high risk behavior.

42:15.267 --> 42:18.767 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- Studies show 70%
of inner-city populations

42:18.867 --> 42:21.367 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
are exposed to traumatic events

42:21.467 --> 42:25.200 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
that could trigger the need
for special interventions.

42:25.300 --> 42:27.700 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
Milwaukee schools
are taking notice.

42:27.800 --> 42:30.900 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
Especially as they grapple
with achievement gaps.

42:31.000 --> 42:33.567 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
- If I have a student in my
class and the student's hungry,

42:33.667 --> 42:35.400 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
the ability
for that student to learn

42:35.500 --> 42:38.867 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
is not really at the highest
possible level it could be

42:38.967 --> 42:41.367 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
because they have some
basic needs that aren't met.

42:41.467 --> 42:44.167 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
If we have a student
who has experienced some trauma

42:44.267 --> 42:46.200 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
and they don't necessarily
have the coping skills

42:46.300 --> 42:48.567 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
at that particular point
to deal with it well,

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the first thing
that they're focused on

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is probably not literacy,

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or probably not the math problem
that's expected of them,

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or science class.

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And so there is
this appreciation of

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we have to really make sure that
people's basic needs are met,

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that they feel safe

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and then we can really get to
the learning component of it.

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(child giggles)

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- Come on T.J.!

43:10.867 --> 43:14.000 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- Ruth McClinton plays with
her great grandchildren

43:14.100 --> 43:17.033 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
at a park near her home
on the north side of Milwaukee

43:17.133 --> 43:19.533 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
feeling safe with them here.

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- You climb!

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- I climb?
You climb up there!

43:22.867 --> 43:24.233 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- Even though
the neighborhood borders

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the lowest income/
highest crime area in the city

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and sits smack in the epicenter
of manufacturing job loss.

43:31.367 --> 43:35.067 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
The former A.O. Smith building
across the street.

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(swings squeak)

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- McClinton moved here
34 years ago.

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Her friend Yvonne McCaskill

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bought her house down the block
42 years ago.

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Then young mothers
in a thriving community.

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- We had many people
who worked at A.O. Smith

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and lived here so
they were able to walk to work.

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Capital Drive.
We had many businesses.

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Along Hopkins, this area,

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there were many family-owned
businesses.

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There were bakeries
and small shops.

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- That all changed
over the decades

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as jobs left,
along with homeowners.

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But these friends and
neighbors refused to retreat.

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- We really like being here.

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We like living here.

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And we want to reclaim it.

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We want something
to happen here.

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I don't know if I want to say
that we want to go back

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to the old days because
that's not coming back.

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Manufacturing jobs
aren't coming back.

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As we knew it then.

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But, however, I think that
we can create

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an environment
for future generations

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to enjoy what we enjoyed
raising families here.

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- McCaskill leads her
neighborhood association

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with its watch zones and motto:

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"Building neighborhoods
block by block."

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That includes
working with police

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to keep an eye out for crime.

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She's lent her
community-building experience

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to the bricks and mortar
re-build

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of the A.O. Smith site
across the street.

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The Century City business park.

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- Over my left shoulder,

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you may be able to see the first
building that has gone up,

45:13.200 --> 45:14.600 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
which is an investment

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through the Capital Group City
of Milwaukee.

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And we couldn't be
more happy and pleased

45:20.333 --> 45:23.333 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
that across the street from us
something is happening.

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Jobs, jobs, jobs.

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That's the hope and expectation.

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- When I moved here, it was
beautiful and it's coming back.

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It's coming back.

45:35.867 --> 45:38.800 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- Farther downtown
another sign of comeback.

45:38.900 --> 45:40.600 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
The city, county, and state,

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along with
the Milwaukee Bucks owners

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are joining together

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to build a new arena that
has all-important jobs attached.

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- I look at it, in part,

45:50.867 --> 45:54.300 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
as a $500 million
public works project

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paid for by $250 million
in private money

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that's going to create jobs.

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And part of our term sheet
with the Bucks has been

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they hire people
from the city of Milwaukee.

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- They're building
a new Bradley Center

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so they might need
a couple workers.

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- Inmates like Brandon Burks

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at the Milwaukee
House of Correction

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now have better job prospects
upon release.

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(engine running)

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- For example,
ahead of getting out,

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Burks signed up for welding
and forklift training.

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The institution re-instated
programming for inmates

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in recent years

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under the direction
of the county executive.

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(rubbing squeak)

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Programming like this training
in the print shop.

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- I don't want to be
a statistic anymore.

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Do you know what
that feels like?

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Especially for somebody
not to believe in me.

46:50.400 --> 46:53.533 align:left position:37.5%,start line:93.33% size:62.5%
(crying)

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I think
it's the hardest thing ever.

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(mechanical clanking)

46:59.000 --> 47:00.733 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- Inmates taking part
in the programs

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say they have new hope
for their futures.

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- When we get out
from being incarcerated,

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we can get a job doing this.

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Working in a print shop.

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- You watch them grow
over months

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and through some of the
partnering employment agencies,

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we watch them
go to work every day.

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And a lot of them,
it's their first job ever.

47:21.333 --> 47:25.167 align:left position:12.5%,start line:80% size:87.5%
- The goal, according to
Assistant Superintendent
Jose Hernandez,

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is to stop the cycle
of incarceration.

47:28.533 --> 47:30.733 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
Incarceration that
is so damaging

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to communities
and families.

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And the costs of which
cut a deep swath

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not just in Milwaukee,
but across Wisconsin.

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- Taxpayers statewide
are footing the bill

47:41.533 --> 47:44.100 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
for individuals
that are being put in prison.

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They're footing the bill for
all the social services costs

47:46.667 --> 47:49.467 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
that are resulting from

47:49.567 --> 47:52.000 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
either somebody being killed
or being incarcerated,

47:52.100 --> 47:54.933 align:left position:37.5%,start line:0% size:62.5%
and now,
the state's gonna have to
step in and help raise a child.

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Everybody in the state's
footing the bill for that.

47:58.100 --> 48:00.400 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
While the state
Department of Justice

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can't sweep in
and just fix this problem,

48:03.800 --> 48:07.300 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
we can help
on the criminal justice side.

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- New help on
the criminal justice side

48:10.933 --> 48:13.067 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
includes state money
in Milwaukee

48:13.167 --> 48:16.033 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
for additional prosecutors
to try gun cases

48:16.133 --> 48:18.900 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
and to help cover
homicide detectives' overtime

48:19.000 --> 48:22.567 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
when making cases
against violent shooters.

48:22.667 --> 48:24.667 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- We're coming after them
with better tools

48:24.767 --> 48:28.067 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
and a stronger commitment
and better partnership.

48:28.167 --> 48:30.900 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- As we sit here
and we debate this bill,

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people are continuing to die.

48:33.100 --> 48:36.433 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- New tools include a bill
passed into state law

48:36.533 --> 48:40.667 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
that removes sentencing
discretion in certain cases.

48:40.767 --> 48:42.567 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
- You're a violent felon
and then you're caught

48:42.667 --> 48:45.467 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
in possession
of an illegal handgun.

48:45.567 --> 48:46.967 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
Being caught with
that illegal handgun

48:47.067 --> 48:50.433 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
is going to get you three years
mandatory minimum sentence.

48:50.533 --> 48:54.267 align:left position:12.5%,start line:80% size:87.5%
If you're using that gun
in the commission
of another violent crime,

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that's going to get you
an additional five years

48:56.633 --> 48:58.600 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
for a total of eight years.

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- Despite the many costs
of locking people up,

49:04.067 --> 49:07.533 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
the bill's author, Milwaukee
Representative La Tonya Johnson,

49:07.633 --> 49:11.467 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
says violent felons
must be taken off the streets.

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- And to basically say,

49:13.567 --> 49:15.367 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
"We're not going to
tolerate it anymore."

49:15.467 --> 49:17.767 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
- The best way to avoid

49:17.867 --> 49:21.667 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
the human, societal and taxpayer
costs of gun violence

49:21.767 --> 49:24.000 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75%
is to prevent it.

49:24.100 --> 49:26.833 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- Alright,
let's get into the numbers.

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- That's the goal
of the Milwaukee
Homicide Review Commission,

49:29.867 --> 49:33.433 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
which meets several times
a month to review cases.

49:33.533 --> 49:36.133 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- The initial fight
started next door to me.

49:36.233 --> 49:38.467 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- In this meeting,
community partners

49:38.567 --> 49:43.167 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
learn everything known
about suspects, victims, motive.

49:43.267 --> 49:45.500 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- The folks in the zip code
are making

49:45.600 --> 49:48.700 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
between about $15,000
to $25,000 a year.

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- The task then is to make
recommendations and take action

49:53.333 --> 49:57.167 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
about how similar homicides
could be thwarted in the future.

49:57.267 --> 49:59.867 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- I think it should get the word
out more so into the schools.

49:59.967 --> 50:02.700 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- We've really been
encouraging the residents

50:02.800 --> 50:04.933 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
to start reporting
a lot of this activity.

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- In addition, I think
we need to build upon that

50:07.733 --> 50:09.967 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
idea about the block watches.

50:10.067 --> 50:14.633 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
- At some level, we could have
prevented these homicides.

50:14.733 --> 50:16.133 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
It might not have been something

50:16.233 --> 50:17.967 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
that we could have done
yesterday

50:18.067 --> 50:20.600 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75%
or something that
we could have done last week.

50:20.700 --> 50:23.167 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
But at some point,
we could have changed

50:23.267 --> 50:26.700 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
the trajectory of an individual
that's been involved,

50:26.800 --> 50:28.467 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5%
whether it's the victim,
the suspect,

50:28.567 --> 50:31.600 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100%
or whether it's the location
in which these occurred.

50:31.700 --> 50:35.367 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- And now the Commission
is onto something new.

50:35.467 --> 50:38.467 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- We started looking at who are
the individuals that

50:38.567 --> 50:42.400 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
we've seen as victims, witnesses
or suspects multiple times.

50:44.400 --> 50:47.100 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
- Working with the
Milwaukee Police Department,

50:47.200 --> 50:49.633 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
Homicide Review Commission
analysts looked at

50:49.733 --> 50:53.300 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5%
these so-called "frequent
fliers" in its databases.

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The people showing up as
victims, suspects or witnesses

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three or more times.

50:58.867 --> 51:02.133 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
- Mr. Harris' prior arrests
involved

51:02.233 --> 51:03.800 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
reckless endangerment of safety

51:03.900 --> 51:05.400 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
which would involve a handgun.

51:05.500 --> 51:08.600 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75%
- Just 27 people
and their social networks

51:08.700 --> 51:10.233 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5%
have been identified.

51:10.333 --> 51:11.667 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100%
People believed by authorities

51:11.767 --> 51:15.100 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100%
to be the cause of most of
Milwaukee's gun violence.

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The chronic offenders.

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- We're really talking about
a small group of people

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who have chosen gun violence as
a way to solve their problems.

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- I'm tired of
our young people dying.

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I'm tired of our children dying.

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- That small group of people,

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causing so much
tragedy and trouble,

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is getting fresh focus
from the law.

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The U.S. Justice department
has awarded Milwaukee

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a nearly $300,000 grant
to support intelligence

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to help target, arrest and
prosecute the "frequent fliers."

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- To the extent that

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our addressing
the violent crime problem

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is going to mean that
the Milwaukee Police department

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has an increased presence
in certain neighborhoods

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where these
violent offenders live,

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where these violent crimes
are committed,

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it's important
that those communities

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also have trust
in law enforcement.

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- Gregory Haanstad, the United
States Attorney in Milwaukee,

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says the federal government's
newly launched reform initiative

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assessing the Milwaukee
Police Department

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(chambers clicking)

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is important toward building
that trust and curbing crime.

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- Now "ShotSpotter"-- I mean
exact address where it happened.

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- Because, when technology

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must replace citizen involvement
in reporting gunshots,

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what role does
lack of trust play?

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- We are all fearful for
the treatment of our children

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when it comes to interactions
with the police department.

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- Federal Justice officials
came in from Washington

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this year to listen
to community members

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as a first step
toward recommendations
for police reform.

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- We don't need police
who are praying on us.

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- Hundreds turned out to be
heard in the wake of events

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like the 2014 death
of Dontre Hamilton.

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- I'm Dontre Hamilton's mother.

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- Shot and killed by a white
Milwaukee police officer

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after a confrontation
in a city park.

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The officer was
not criminally charged.

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- This is not
an overnight thing.

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This is decades long

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that this distrust has developed

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out of real concerns
and real issues.

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- Stepped up enforcement
in high crime areas

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can leave residents feeling
racially targeted.

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- We just need
to be treated fairly and equally

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where we live.

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- Now Milwaukee has
a lot of criminals

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but because you're black,
that doesn't make you one.

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- Right!

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- The Milwaukee Police Chief

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was not invited to this
listening session, but he says

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he feels the tension of policing
in troubled neighborhoods.

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- This dual reality of

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"Do something about crime and
get cops into my neighborhood,"

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and "Oh, my God.
What are all the cops doing?"

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is injuring the neighborhoods
and the police

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at the same time.

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- Not only do we need to talk
about what the police are doing,

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but we also need to address
what we're doing.

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And with all the shooting,
it's always been us killing us--

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killing one another.

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- Malcolm Hunt is connected
to the city and its people.

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First, as a Milwaukee
police officer for 25 years.

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- So we have to go back
and thank God!

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- And now, at this inner-city
church, Hunt is an elder.

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- It seems to me an alarming
number of men and women

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have failed miserably

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to understand the spirit
and the nature of murder.

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- He believes the religious
community in Milwaukee should

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take a broader healing role.

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- We have to get out here
and start talking

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with these young men,
especially with these young men.

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Us older men,
we got to get out here

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and start talking
with these young people.

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(singing Gospel)

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- Hunt says his next step is
to expand his street ministry.

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Reaching out to young people
block by block.

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- Say, "Hey listen.

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Let's stop this, all this
violence" cause the children.

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The children are the ones
that suffering.

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- We need children
to dream again.

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I need them to see that
there is something more.

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♪

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- And so, the hands on deck in
Milwaukee work to heal and help.

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Realizing they need to bring
change and hope

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to a city despairing over too
many candles for its victims.

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(somber piano music)

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Most especially,
its young victims.

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Like the boy whose
friends and family say,

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"Loved basketball, loved people,
was just a good kid."

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- Tariq!

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- He was only 14.

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My son had
a long life ahead of him.

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(somber piano music)