Survival Mode: Growing Up With Violence | Fault Lines

Life in Chicago's poorest neighbourhoods can sometimes feel like a war zone.
In 2015, an average of one person every three hours was shot in Chicago - more than in any other city in the US. Over the course of the calendar year, there were nearly 3,000 shooting victims in the so-called Windy City.
According to a recent American Academy of Pediatrics study, 14 million, or one in five, children in the US are exposed to violence involving a weapon between the ages of six and 17.
Chicago has struggled for years to stem the ongoing violence, but the impact goes far beyond the lives that are lost.
Children are growing up without a baseline of safety, so what are the longterm impact of this continuous exposure to violence and trauma? How will the ever-present violence affect their health and outlook on life?
Fault Lines went to Chicago to examine the psychological toll of violence on children growing up in Chicago's most dangerous and most neglected communities.
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[@FreakedHerOUT]

To Hear A Child Say They Don't Want To Be Killed.. Freakin' Heartbroken

[@diannh2894]

😭💯

[@rainmayhem4255]

The world's problems don't get fixed unless they affect the rich

[@noxvalhalla1369]

That little girl looks like she's trying not to lose her mind

[@konfyd110]

Role models required in these neighbourhoods, not just gangsters. Gangster life ain't cool, it kills.

[@farzarnafazli5123]

I would do whatever it takes to move my kids to a safe place to live.

[@ReddyReader]

You're right! We got together with ' like minded ' families from East NewYork and moved to a safer neighborhood. We shared resources ( not so easy for Us)but it had to be agreed before the move . It can and was done ... thanks to God Almighty.

[@JeanineH]

Deovante definitely has PTSD wow ... this is the saddest stories I have ever heard. These poor #kids growing up with #PTSD What is wrong with us? "Survival mode" is a real thing...Doctor says "the LEARNING Part of the BRAIN SHUTS DOWN--& the survival mode kicks in"!? ...

[@mariannevontrapp1063]

Deeply sad, I live in a village surrounded by farmers, many children here, who are safe everywhere, and peace.And then this little girl...breaks my heart

[@yannalenaa]

It's crazy how people don't think before they do. These family's go through this everyday. Right as I'm talking Someone just died😕

[@Exploretheearthh]

Fym. Rihanna 😐

[@bingmarshall6937]

The absolute BEST thing to happen to a little black child is to be placed into foster care where they’ll most likely wind up in a white home and be raised to be civil and we all rejoice.

[@va4519]

Happens mostly due to bad education system and lack of economic development (and lack of jobs)

[@dee468]

And poor parenting..it is a terrible cycle

[@bingmarshall6937]

There a shyte-load of videos on yt that show what it’s like teaching in a predominantly black school. Those kids will NOT do what is asked, very loud, disrespectful, and violent. Throwing chairs, tables, fist punching the teacher... it isn’t “bad schools” it’s bad kids. There are no economic opportunities because people with money don’t want to risk loosing it all to crime of some sort and could mean your life. And no jobs for the same reasons. It’s the way you are raising your bastards while acting a fool yourself. Men want you for ONE thing when you flaunt that ONE thing, then get angry when he doesn’t stay n you’ve got another baby....STOP! take a break for gods sake. Raise em quietly with love and attention. Help with their schooling, pay attention to them and stop the cycle. Your children will be raising our next generation. They can’t do it with PTSD or scars or ANY kind. Sorry so drawn out.

[@xxxxxx-br6ix]

There are millions of people that lack education and economic development but don't go around just killing each other.

[@johnnypham2850]

Bing Marshall STOP OUT OF WEDLOCK BIRTHS

[@damianstarks3338]

This is beyond sad and tragic.

[@mrsseasea]

do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. -Bruce Lee

[@Anywhooo]

Yes, I have this saying in a picture frame because it is so true.

[@koolguy9069]

its even worse now 849 murders last year...

[@Woke365]

I am going to Chicago to stop the bleeding.

[@robertbullock6259]

Genesis Real info Report. Good Luck with that

[@diannh2894]

If you care about your little brother or sister... Hear when they say the trauma affects them kids for life. Why would you want that... If we dont want cops killing.. We need to stop first

[@slowpoke96Z28]

4:55, well, at least she knew his birthday without having to think about it.

[@gallegossouth4331]

Where in a power struggle out here in chicago

[@adonisdiaz5121]

People a turning away from God that's why all this is happening God forgives us please 🙏🙏🙏

[@FreakedHerOUT]

adonis diaz Absolutely Right.

[@wyyclef]

Right. This didnt happen way back when everyone followed god or a god.

[@oarabileramadwa9793]

can't believe this happens in a first world country

[@MsNooneinparticular]

...while our prez calls OTHER countries "shitholes" :|

[@uncannyconceptions7376]

Its simple. Because it is happening predominantly between third world human imports. How is this difficult for you to comprehend.

[@aimanahmad645]

@@uncannyconceptions7376 that doesn't even make sense you mong.

[@stacycarlton2056]

Easy to believe it's been happening sinces the 30s it never really stopped

[@winningtakescareofeverythi8438]

@@MsNooneinparticular he also said American cities were shitholes

[@slowpoke96Z28]

23:35 they understand. Most don't care. The ones that do, they pride themselves in causing that pain.

[@jaybaby9713]

No father in the house has a sick effect on the boys mind,so he becomes emotionally unstable and supercharged..men have to get back to running the neighborhood along with good women..

[@bookreaderson]

Blame it on this blame it on that . How bout deciding to not shoot.

[@bennyblanco9991]

bookreaderson Genius!!! Crazy how such a simple solution has never been implemented before. A mere KZbinr, solving the complex societal issues facing these people with just one comment, who would have thought it.

[@midnightvelvet8077]

4:58 the mother is relaxed. She doesn’t seemed bother or surprised by his death

[@thekaerichtexas]

I'm sure that's not the case....

[@wyntermccastle4025]

Hello how are u this is the girl in the blue coat that’s my auntie u talking about the reason she is relaxed that’s cuz our family is strong u don’t know what happen after the fact they stopped recording so whateva u gotta say keep it to ya self.!

[@marinicole3945]

It ain’t that she didn’t care she didn’t care enough

[@bennym5244]

If it was a whyte cop...

[@Dunning.Kruger]

But we have billionaires.

[@araiatzeggai3224]

America, land of the free, were all man are equal, smh,😥😢

[@uncannyconceptions7376]

Alll men are equal. But our racial biology is waaaay different. Deal with that and we might get somewhere.

[@smokefast90606]

Take the guns away and becomes any other thing csn be be weaponry gas,bat,car,knife all the way down to a stone

[@paulystp]

I can’t understand gun shop owners , do they watch the news, I’m not talking about the constitution but the mind of a seller to open day after day without remorse just thinking about profit, not thinking about the victim or the convicted, one family gos to a funeral ,and the other family visits the prison, while the gun shop counts the money

[@bennym5244]

Same for the drug dealer!

[@slowpoke96Z28]

Fam, these dudes out here shooting other mfers have probably never even SEEN a gun store in real life. Almost ALL these are black market weapons. I thought that would be common knowledge, but I guess not.

[@bgirl8565]

Not "Unconsciously', Subconsciously!! Sorry, pet peeve..

[@paulystp]

3rd world country status just around the corner

[@claireopolot5676]

No no we not this violent. Poor yes but civilians are not violent. We not gun crazy

[@demarcos69]

Kilt🙄

[@wyntermccastle4025]

First off that’s how we talk an yea I’m dat lil girl dat said “kilt” move around wit allat ofn

[@winningtakescareofeverythi8438]

This is exactly what Trump was talking about

[@larrysmith2636]

Sorry precious. I do not have the power of God. i think that that is not necessarily a good thing.

[@KeithsTVHD1]

One said part about this is that most black people still think there is some god that is gonna save them, THERE IS NO GOD! Save ur selves!

[@MrJackydragon]

Kruff39 And who introduced God to them? White people!

[@Anywhooo]

There is a God who loves ALL his children, we are given free will to choose for ourselves.

[@slowpoke96Z28]

Save yourselves from what?

[@slowpoke96Z28]

@@MrJackydragon interesting, considering Christianity made it to Africa before it reached non-Roman Europeans.

[@MrJackydragon]

@@slowpoke96Z28 But it came from Roman empire right? Judea?

[@VT1119]

He had a good life for a thug, he made it to 20......

[@danniaddams5502]

Yeah, but just think of how long he could've lived had he gotten out of that life. That happens sometimes.

[@charlesj9502]

Who? The thug cop?

[@jadajohnson9741]

first of all thats my couzin im that little girl u can not call him a thug cause he wasnt he was a young man trying to survive out their if u dont know wat u talking bout keep ya mouth closed period

[@slowpoke96Z28]

@@jadajohnson9741 there are other ways to survive. Dancing at the corner store with no shirt and your skivvies showing is not one of them. Base non-violent culture has to change before the crime changes.