Getting 'tough on crime' hasn't stopped bloodshed in communities where police are distrusted. That's where 'violence interrupters' come in.
The New Orleans Police Department is investigating a shooting that injured five people on Bourbon Street early Sunday morning.NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- When Rasheedat Fetuga became a teacher, she worked hard to help protect her students, many of them poor and from a nearby housing project. When one of her favorites was shot and killed at 16, she stood at his funeral and vowed to do more.
“We’re the cure to the violence in real life. We know we are because we cured ourselves first,” he said. Minorities are heavily affected by community violence, said Paul Carrillo, the community violence initiative director at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, but it’s not unusual to see pushback surface at the grassroots level.
“There are a lot of efforts sprinkled around the U.S.,” Carrillo said, but he compared the situation to “way too many startups without significant investment. ... They’re doing good things, but they can never scale up.”
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