In Chicago, there are many pastors that want to help "clean up the violence problem".
A female that defies the norms brings a shame to families so corrosive, that it can only be washed clean by spectacular violence -- the kind that not only delivers a punishment, but leaves an enduring message.
Most exciting are not just the initiatives themselves - whether aimed at violence, clean energy, or education - but the ways in which cities are developing them, leveraging the enormous creativity of citizens, entrepreneurs, and other partners to transform the ways we solve problems.
In just a few years, this subtropical city has clamped down on violence, cleaned up its act and emerged as the trendy capital of Colombian cool, safe enough to visit but still seedy enough to feel far from home.
The serfs, who made up a third of the empire, are conveyed here as a handful of ragged, spectral presences with dirty clothes and clean fingernails, and the violence meted out to them is only notionally acknowledged.
But keep our country clean of drugs and violence".
They remind us, once again, that the humanitarian dream of "clean warfare" -- military violence that is smoothly regulated by laws that spare civilians -- is usually a sick joke.
Manhunt, with its arterial sprays and gouged eyeballs, is a game that doesn't shy away from or try to clean up how disgusting violence is, which makes it a good sight more honest than most violent media.
Some leading hip-hop labels altered their names recently to clean up their misogynist, violence-prone reputations.
