"Heroin users all over Chicagoland," my good friend Victor Maggio spells out in his final Bloody Chicago installment of his Top Ten Most Violent Neighborhoods in Chicago series, "usually go to Austin first before anywhere else because it is so plentiful."
"The gangs in Austin have had decades of experience and have the most sophisticated drug operation in the entire city," he explains.
Austin, on the West Side adjacent to Oak Park, is Chicago's most violent neighborhood.
As he has done in his previous nine episodes, Maggio recounts the history of this neighborhood, its rise and its fall. He also explores the creation of the welfare state and how it has devastated America's inner cities and the black family.
Hollywood phonies who glorify violence and rap music that celebrate the killing of cops and the abasement of women play a role in this crisis too.
"When you put it all together," Maggio declares "all of this has contributed to the creation of a nihilistic generation of young people that are emerging because of the consequences of destructive liberal policies that have done massive damage to the minority communities of Chicago and across the country."
Racism of course is at the core of this problem, of course. And yes, there is some good news as many blacks and Hispanics are doing well. But America can do much better.
Maggio's work is citizen journalism at its best.
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