“If you want to change violence in the ‘hood, you have to change the ‘hood”
Elizabeth Comack, Lawrence Deane, Larry Morrissette, and Jim Silver / March 1, 2010 / 6 min read
In the summer of 2009, at a funeral in Winnipeg’s North End following a gang-related drive-by shooting, two of us were approached by members of a street gang. They wanted to talk. Too often the voices of the people who have intimate knowledge of, and are integral to, the problems in Winnipeg’s inner city are not heard. Our report endeavours to give a voice to these six Aboriginal men.