WHY CHICAGO IS THE MURDER CAPITAL: Because teenagers enjoy violence. “Living in the mean streets makes you tough and tough is what 15-year-olds want to be seen as, especially by other 15-year-olds. Chicago is a bit like a real life horror movie where every moment could be your last. But people, especially teens, like horror movies.”

Gangs of young men strutting and killing people is the default state for humanity. Civilization is what puts that under control. Until it doesn’t.