Chicago mothers can feel powerless when investigators come close to solving their children's slayings but hit dead ends. Yet they have come to play a unique — and effective — role in fighting the city's violence. They are often detectives' link to the community and a crucial advocate for young men society may not have sympathy for. As much as they may feel it, they are not powerless. They search Facebook to find leads, they speak to neighbors and they even seek out key witnesses to move cases along.
They show up at vigils to remember the dead sons of other women. And they take to the streets to march, chanting, "We are mothers" and "We want justice," while using bullhorns to urge neighbors to come forward and talk to police.
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