By Leonard SparksAFRO Staff Writer
Amid the clamor over Baltimore's alarming increase in homicides and non-fatal shootings, a small band of former convicts is quietly implementing an innovative violence-prevention initiative based on a Chicago program credited with double-digit reductions in violent crime.
Funded by two $382,000 grants from the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the city program, named Operation Safe Streets, takes a public health approach to violence and relies on teams of outreach workers to engage perpetrators and potential perpetrators of violence on the streets where they live.
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