Chicago wants to sue gang members for their assets. Criminal experts say it won’t quell gun violence. – NBC News

"Most of the violence is caused by interpersonal conflict, and the root of that is stress, poverty, desperation and hopelessness," said Lance Williams, a professor of urban community studies at Northeastern Illinois University, explaining that this approach will only tie up already disenfranchised people into the legal system, and drain people of the little resources that they have with no real effect on violence.