“If you are out in the neighborhoods and you are talking to people in our city, you will discover that there is like a silent mass trauma of untold numbers of children that experience this …,” Hofeld said. “It’s been so normalized by Chicago policing over the decades, and it happens with such regularity, that many of the citizens on the South and West sides that I talk to do not even know that it’s illegal policing to point a gun at a child for no reason.”