Shots ring out in the middle of the night -- two bullets, two victims, and a neighborhood in Kenosha is so consumed with fear that they won't talk to anyone, not the police and certainly not the press. After the shooting, I walked up to the neighbors house and was chased off by a woman telling me, "You don't know what they'll do to me if I talk to you! You need to leave now. I wondered how a woman became so fearful, who made her that way and why.
I learned more about this neighborhood by turning my camera off. One woman said she doesn't let her children play outside after 6 p.m. because she's afraid her children will get hurt or worse yet get recruited into a gang. She tried to start a neighborhood watch program, but her neighbors told her she would get hurt -- snitches get stitches, they said. Another woman who lives in the same neighborhood, saw a girl beaten by a large group of people. The woman stood outside and called the police, one of the men hit her in the nose. One man told the police he's tired of the cocaine and heroin dealing in his neighborhood and he begged a gang unit officer to clean it up. But when the gang officers asked why people in the neighborhood don't talk to him, the man replied: "Because they think they'll get beat up or killed" because nobody likes a snitch.
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