Drugs, gangs, prostitution, and shootings were daily occurrences, often unreported. According to The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, the police wouldn't even bother with calls to Pruitt-Igoe; residents on the upper stories sometimes lobbed bricks at the cop cars that did show up. In the film, one man tells of how, as a nine-year-old, he watched his mother hysterically shoving his brother’s guts back into his stomach after being shot by a sawn-off shotgun. "[Pruitt-Igoe] would be here today if it had been maintained like it was when it opened up," says one former residents in the film, "but it went down and down and down and down."