Think New Haven and Bridgeport Have a Violence [Derived Headline]

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Think New Haven and Bridgeport have a violence problem? Consider Chicago which, with one-third the population of New York, lost more children in 2009 to violence than the Big Apple -- 57 kids between the ages of 9 and 19. Lester Holt reports a heartbreaking hour at 7 p.m. Sunday on NBC called "America Now: Faces Against Violence."

Two Chicago parents, who lost a teen to a random shooting by a gang member on a city bus, are crusading now against the gangs and violence that make life so perilous to urban youth.

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Think New Haven and Bridgeport Have a Violence [Derived Headline]

"I think a lot of them have been psychologically damaged and brainwashed, if you ask me," says the father, "with the glamorization of guns in America."

A video shows another 16-year-old being beaten to death in a 2009 melee in broad dayli...

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