Million-Dollar Blocks

The million-dollar block is where CVLS David Gotzh said was an up and coming block that would give Zion the life that he needed and deserved. Judge Susan Kennedy-Sullivan, under the supervision of Chief Judge Evans has spent years making sure that young black boys like Zion help to make sure that more million-dollar blocks are made.

What is a million-dollar block? Millions allocated to incarcerate residents on individual city blocks. In Chicago, over five years from 2005-2009, there were: 851 blocks with over $1 million committed to prison sentences 121 blocks with over $1 million committed to prison sentences for non-violent drug offenses.

79th and Essex are one, and this is where they sent Zion to live. I know that for many of you, this is something that is hard to understand as you feel that this issue does not affect you. That is until you are looking down the other end of a gun, and you ask yourself how? We have a court system in place in cook County that has one purpose; that is to lock up and send as many young black males downstate. 

If these were not black boys, something would be done; if you took the time out of your day to go and spend one hour in a courtroom, you would see that judges like Susan Kennedy-Sullivan are not trying to help as these same judges have stock in the prison system.

Nowhere is this nation is the schoolyard to prison pipeline clearer than in Chicago:

Not only are the highest incarceration rates concentrated on the city’s west and south sides, but this spatial unevenness has held constant for more than two decades. 1 As a result, most urban residents with felony convictions come from and return to a small number of neighborhoods. The impact on residents is dramatic. In parts of Chicago’s West Side, nearly 70 percent of men between ages 18 and 54 are likely to have been subject to the criminal justice system

What does Chief Judge Evans has to say about this; nothing; as he has for over one-year, refuse to talk with me about this; and since no one in the so-called media cares enough to ask the critical question this goes unchecked.

Slaver has not ended as these young men of color are sent back down to the southern part of the state as these small towns make they're living off the backs of young blackbucks.

The reason we have a probate court for minor was to help keep these young people out of DCFS and out of the systems. However, under Judges like Susan Kennedy-Sullivan, over 80 percent of black males that go through the probate court end up at some point in their life going into DCFS and the DOC system. Over 80 percent, that is a system that is and will keep on failing as it was never set out to succeed. 

If you want to read more about this and if you think this is not real check out the https://chicagosmilliondollarblocks.com/

As you will see that when a young man pulls up in a car and unload 20 rounds into a store; these young men are a product of cook county probate court; under Chief Judge Evans; and highly unqualify judges such as Susan Kennedy-Sullivan and lawyer like CVLS David Gotzh are tools used to keep the constant cycling of black men in and out of prison in neighborhoods like the block were Zion was sent to live.