![]() I just fucking stood there when the car came past me, shooting. I remember the screech of the tyres, and I knew what was coming, and everyone was shouting, ‘get down, get down’, and I froze. “They went through a series of exercises with me,” he says, “breaking Coke bottles so I would get used to the popping sound and start bending my knees. Some of the residents, concerned or even embarrassed that this outsider could have been killed during one of his regular visits, began training Venkatesh in drive-by preparedness. ![]() He would have been even harder to miss back then, almost 20 years ago, when he was a hippyish middle-class sociology student with a long ponytail and a tie-dyed t-shirt, conducting field research in Chicago’s biggest, poorest housing project, the Robert Taylor Homes. “Like a tree.” Venkatesh is a tall man – a big target. ![]() THE first time that Sudhir Venkatesh witnessed a drive-by shooting, he remained upright while everyone around him dropped to the pavement. ![]()
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