There are stories behind every call, every arrest — every funeral.

In some parts of the city, residents are worried, not only about the increase in reports of drug trafficking and thefts in their neighborhoods, but about the number of times they read about a young life ended much too soon.

Law enforcement personnel answer the calls, but they don’t have the solution.

Neither do the prosecutors, who are faced with the same names, the same issues, the same unsolved mysteries.

So that leaves a problem that has many manifestations and many causes and effects, but no clear path forward.

This is the conundrum of violence.

And this is just a portion of its story.