This is a tough one. Without parents who give a crap, kids are pretty well screwed. You can't lay it on counselors or teachers or coaches
to some how shepherd youths. IF they try and fail then they get blamed or sued. Gang violence has to be met with overwhelming force. That is the bottom line, I think. I would mobilize the National Guard in Chicago to patrol the streets and have them have loaded weapons. Cops cannot do it alone. Not when the enemy guns are better and more lethal then their own.
I go on the Chicago Trib and Suntimes websites almost every day. It really sickens me to read how bad things are in Chicago and 90+ % of it is gang related. It also sickens me when I see ignorant assholes talking about that the solution is to take guns away from citizens. They've done that, haven't they? Last that I heard, it isn't homeowners who are killing innocent people but rather those pukes who have an evil mind-set and don't give a shit. In reality, they are even worse than terrorists because there is no base cause for them. They are worms. The scum of the earth. Mobilize the guard to protect the streets and have the cops raid the shit of the gangs and bring total shit on them.