Essay On Chicago Violence

3,839 people have been shot in Chicago from January to November of 2016. This makes Chicago’s most pressing issue violence. Violence has to be stopped in order for Chicago’s other problems to stop. As violence worsens, many other problems erupt such as poverty, lack of education, gang activity, child abuse, and police brutality. Gangs are one of the most common causes of violence in Chicago, and finding a way of reducing gang activity would be a great start to get rid of violence. With violence comes abandonment from homes, business places, and schools, increased incarceration rates, lack of education, and many more horrible problems. One of the most common causes of violence is gangs. Once a person who has committed violence gets abandoned,
Child abuse usually spreads from family to family as children learn from their parents and their habits. Adults who abuse their children need to get help as well as the children who have been abused to stop further abuse from spreading. Both of these problems include violence and continue violence’s chain reaction. Many people might think that violence isn’t Chicago’s most pressing issue, and some may believe that poverty is Chicago’s most concerning issue. Although this is a valid concern, violence takes a big part in poverty and therefore the problem of poverty itself is not the greatest issue. For example, in Englewood in 2004-2008, 42% of households were under the poverty line and because of that, the homicide rates were 48 per 100,000. Violence causes poverty and because of that, poverty is not Chicago’s roughest issue. Violence is Chicago’s most pressing issue as it is the root cause of many other problems. Violence has to be stopped in order to make Chicago a better place and to eliminate hundreds of other problems that the residents of Chicago suffer. With the help of certain political figures, we can get rid of the majority of the gang activity in Chicago and therefore decrease the rates of