I think we’ve failed our young people and we’ve failed our young people because graduation rates are so anemic, particularly for young men of color … and … I think as a society, we have to focus more on our public education system and devote frankly more resources to it. We live in a country, unfortunately, in which we’re much more willing to spend money on keeping people in prison than we are educating them in our public schools, and that’s disgraceful.
Cook County Board President, Toni Preckwinkle, speaks out for a more holistic approach to the problem of crime in Chicago
FILM: The Interrupters
Source: suntimes.com
