During a digestive walk, a friend of Lucie told me: «You know why there are those kind of architecture, there, with a small tower advanced on the street corner? It is to watch the street ! From up there you see everyone. So with a good gun, people could protect there place...» For the first time, I realize that an architecture can be thought to facilitate shooting.

Chicago is called «the crime capital» in the USA. Each year, there are more murders with a gun here than in New York and Los Angeles combined. There were 561 deaths in 2018, and 757 in 2017.

Of course, the accessibility of guns in the United States is the first and direct cause of these murders, but the violence in Chicago is related to its history and its social context. The very strong segregation, the racially motivated disinvestment, the redlining, the police brutality and the gang war are part of the ingredients making this explosive cocktail.

Better understand the violence problem in Chicago