Violence prevention advocates say they’d like to see the same support and resources given to Highland Park in their communities. BlackVoicesWTTW
“Part of it is what we are exposed to in the media,” said Rashawn Ray, a sociologist and senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. “Oftentimes, in terms of what is normalized in different sorts of communities, when you’re on one side of the city compared to the other side of the city. If you’re on the South Side or the West Side of Chicago compared to being in the suburbs of Highland Park, there are differences in expectations around that.
“We kind of had very intentional conversations about how he planned to cover the Highland Park shooting, especially as a paper that keeps most of its coverage within city limits,” said Mack Liederman, a reporter for Block Club Chicago.
“I feel sympathy for the losses that happened in Highland Park, but then secondarily, I think about the amount of resources that should have been applied to the South and West sides of Chicago during Fourth of July weekend and any other violent weekend where lives have been lost, and we don’t see the governor, we don’t see senators, we don’t see the vice president,” said Arthur Reed, executive director of the Second Chance Initiative, a violence intervention program in South Shore.
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