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I've seen the bodies on my block — and I know what really stops the killing

Rooftop Revelations: When people ask me what the solution to violence is, I know they want a quick solution, an easy fix of sorts. It's not that easy

By Corey Brooks Fox News

Published March 31, 2026 10:00am EDT

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Rooftop Revelations: Violent crime has a solution

Pastor and Project H.O.O.D. founder Corey Brooks says we to separate from 'the world of violence and government dependency' in order to be successful in America.

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I have seen what violence does to a community.

For over 20 years, I have pastored on the South Side of Chicago at my New Beginnings Church. I remember the first time I saw a dead body in the street, a pair of Air Jordans sticking out from beneath a white sheet. I have officiated at funerals for young men and women who should have had decades ahead of them. I have watched mothers bury their children and then walk back to the same block where the murder happened because they had nowhere else to go. I know what violence costs, not as a statistic or a public policy debate, but as a wound that never fully heals.

Even the name of my block is a homage to violence, notoriously named O Block after a gunned-down gangster.

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