This is one of the neighborhoods that I posted about - all the shootings going one a year or so ago & how the young kids were suffering from war stress disorders, much like war torn countries, where it seems most children knows someone who has been shot or killed in gang violence.
It seems like the only way out of the ghetto in the people's eyes is either drugs, rap or sports, not education. What I was amazed at is the gangs left the athletes alone from being forced to join.