What a mess, and how does one change the direction of these kids? You don't; they're feral animals and should be treated as such.
But anyone who walks the streets without a gun, at night, anywhere within a hundred miles of young black males, is complicit in his own fate.
I see that area hasn't changed. Lived near there in the mid-70s, and even then that particular sub-set of the populace was known for their barbarity.