Frames upon frames

All the articles in our group's packet were mainly attempted to frame violence. Every article that we read discussed nothing but about the violence that exists in Chicago and how many offered some solutions to try to minimize it but nothing really seemed to work. Frames were built implying that especially teens were the reason for so much violence that has been happening. Poverty was also another frame that was portrayed because it was basically implied that poverty was the main cause of violence among teens, and that the development of new laws to prevent so much crime were needed. There was a lot mentioned about African American neighborhoods about being the worst when it comes to violence and that is kind of a stereotype because in Chicago every race is in a way involved with crime, not just African Americans. The way that both of these articles try to offer the truth in a different way is by attempting to come up with solutions to eliminate the violence in the city with no such luck, because if the reason for violence is poverty then that is what has to be changed. More availability on jobs is absolutely necessary, because the lack of good jobs is what is making teens turn the wrong way. Some of the articles however, spoke in resignation as if there was really nothing to do when it came to crime in Chicago and they try to develop their same truth by showing how the city is not really doing much to stop all these crimes happening. These articles actually make sense since violence is something of concern today, it also makes sense that crime in the city is a lot more overrated than it is in the suburbs and that's because violence is not as common in the suburbs so it's a lot more shocking when it happens in places that are not as busy as the city streets. These frames reflect differences in power in the way that the less power someone has the more dangerous that person can be to a society because they are those who are trying to seek a better life by making other mistakes. Whether someone that actually has a lot of power and should have the ability to make the city a better place doesn't really do it because it doesn't affect them directly since they aren't those that are going through the poverty that other's are going through and which is causing the outrage among youth.