Chicago crime spurt blamed on upbringing

Chicago’s rising crime rate is on the agenda of a meeting of community leaders this weekend. The city has more murders than New York.

But former gang members have a different take on the problem. They say that most of the violence is not caused by gangs, but rather a poor upbringing due to a serious lack of proper father figures among African Americans.

Al Jazeera’s John Hendren reports from Chicago.