{"id":966,"date":"2009-12-14T18:21:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T18:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=404"},"modified":"2009-12-14T18:21:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T18:21:24","slug":"gangs-and-armed-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"gangs and armed robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to a Catholic Worker social event Saturday night. \u00a0 Sitting next to me was a man I hadn’t seen before. \u00a0 I asked him where he was from. \u00a0 He said he’d just gotten out of prison, for armed robbery. \u00a0 He’d been in for 10 years, this time. \u00a0 Previously, he’d been in for three years for armed robbery. \u00a0 He told me he grew up in the projects of inner city Chicago. From an early age was involved with gangs. \u00a0 It was one of only a few ways to survive down there, he said. \u00a0 During these years, he’d been shot in the eye and lost his sight in it. \u00a0 He said violence was a way of life and it was unusual for him to go through a day in Chicago “without hearing gunshots.” \u00a0 This time out, he has hooked up with a non-profit group called Companions on the Journey<\/em> and he wants to start a mentoring program through the organization — to help kids who are in similar situations to what he was in as a youth. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 During an interview with the Bowling Green News<\/em> in Ohio during a campaign swing, I said in a “saner world” kids wouldn’t have to dodge hunger, needles and bullets growing up in these urban areas. \u00a0 But the only way to really systemmically shift this, is for some of the people in suburban and small town America to take a deep breath, roll up their sleeves, and move into these urban areas to live side by side with those trapped down there. \u00a0 That simple. \u00a0 That hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went to a Catholic Worker social event Saturday night. \u00a0 Sitting next to me was a man I hadn’t seen before. \u00a0 I asked him where he was from. \u00a0 He said he’d just gotten out of prison, for …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}