Violence intervention has become an important part of crime fighting in Chicago, with organizations sprouting up to employ people living in tough neighborhoods to try to steer vulnerable young people away from making choices that lead to violence and lawlessness.

Many of Chicago’s leading business figures, as well as the city’s top philanthropic organizations, have contributed hundreds of millions to the cause. State taxpayers are helping foot the bill as well.

But voices from the right are growing louder as they portray these efforts as, in essence, paying gang members and would-be gang members not to commit crimes. With taxpayer dollars no less.

The issue now is front and center after the news that one of the so-called peacekeepers posed for a smiling picture with Gov. JB Pritzker and

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