Until the community starts cooperating with the police and expecting their own to be law-abiding, nothing will change.
Absolutely spot-on - there are loads of problems that lead to the disastrous murder rate in Chicago - fatherlessness, gun control that only weakens the law-abiding, poverty and joblessness, abysmal schools, a caustic rap culture and the like - but none of those is the main problem.
The main problem is too many folks in the black community are more worried about the cops disrespecting them and their kids than they are worried about the chances their kids will get ventilated by a stray bullet. And consequently there’s not only a hostility to the police, but with too many of those folks, an unofficial policy of “omerta” (the mafia code of silence) that shields the worst of these thugs. The picture in reply 32 says it all.
Until the community and church leaders in the ghetto convince their followers that even though the cops will inevitably make some mistakes (and yes, some may even be racist), if they’re not given community support, their communities will continue to be killing fields.