Is Fats on the Chicago Police Payroll?

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WB EZ's Patrick Smith spent a year following former gang members doing anti-violence work in Chicago. He says the people who do this work are like, I cannot talk to police. It's mostly nonprofit groups like grants from philanthropic groups and government funding.

Policymakers across the country are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on “violence interruptor” programs to try to stop shootings before they happen. WBEZ’s Patrick Smith spent a year with some Chicago-based interruptors for the podcast “Motive.”

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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