Chicago has adopted a programme to reduce gang violence that was pioneered in Liberia
van, suspicious as hell. I keep walking. They just pull up, get to shooting. I was just trying to get to my man’s crib, four houses away. My mother say I died. I still got a bullet lodged in my liver right now. That shit was painful; worst feeling ever. I died and they brought me back.”
He also describes exhausting efforts to evade the rivals who hunt him. He rises at 3am, walks long and circuitous routes, avoids public transport , or remains locked indoors. Devon, a physically imposing man with close-cropped hair and a blue hoodie, says he is changing. “I came too far, I did too much. You want to wake up in peace, but you going to sleep with it [a gun] on you. What the fuck, two guns. You went to bed. Now you going to wake up.
Both men talk of growing into different people. Damien, having said, “It ain’t nothing to do it”, after describing his readiness to shoot people before, adds, “I’ve been controlling myself lately”. The two are among 700 participants in an 18-month, $25m experimental programme, called, which tries to change individuals’ behaviour in the most violent districts of Chicago.
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