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Thats how our system works. Youre not made of money, so dont overpay for boat insurance. Geico, see how much you could save. Stahl in the wars in iraq and afghanistan, our soldiers have been waging whats known as counterinsurgency. Theyre supposed to be both warriors and community builders, Going Village to village driving out insurgents while winning the hearts and minds of the population. But counterinsurgency has had mixed results at best. We met a green beret who is finding out in his job as a Police Officer that the strategy might actually have a better chance of working right here at home in the u. S. A. Call him and his fellow officers counterinsurgency cops. As we first reported in may, theyre not fighting al qaeda or the taliban, but street gangs and drug dealers in one of the most crimeridden cities in new england. Mike cutone turning now, turning now on orchard. Stahl mike cutone is a massachusetts state trooper, part of a special unit targeting gang crime in the city of springfield. Cutone put your hands behind your back stop resisting read him his rights in spanish. Get the gun . Stahl hes also a green beret, who, after returning from iraq, had an aha moment when he was talking to a gas station manager in springfield. Cutone gang members would come in there, pull out a weapon, point it at employees or patrons, take what they want and walk out. No one was calling the Springfield Police, and no one was calling the state police. Stahl what this community was dealing with were gangs. They are a criminal enterprise. How are they like insurgents in iraq . Cutone insurgents and gang members both want to operate in a failed area a failed community or a failed state. They know they can live off the passive support of the community where the community is not going to call or engage the local police. Stahl the similarities to the iraqi town he had lived in and defended were so striking that he sat down and wrote out an action plan for springfield. Cutone we had this concept of what we would call a pilot team where you would handpick select troopers, give them specific training and embed them in the community and start winning over the community. Stahl he proposed his plan, a counterinsurgency program, to springfields Deputy Police chief, john barbieri. But he was saying he was going to bring military tactics into an american city. I mean, you must have had some qualms about that. Barbieri well, once it became clear that he wasnt talking about checkpoints or fast roping from helicopters, that he was talking about going door to door, organizing the neighborhood into a collaboration to report crime, to get involved in solving their own problems, it became obvious to me that that was exactly the type of program i needed for this neighborhood. Stahl barbieri and trooper cutone took us to a Housing Project in that neighborhood known as the north end. I heard that there were gang members on motorcycles with ak 47s on their backs, right out here. Barbieri they were very well organized. They had lookouts. They disappeared when the sector cars came. Stahl they were just riding right up here in front . Barbieri they were establishing the fact that this was their territory, and they were willing to fight to keep it. Stahl Deputy Police chief barbieri was desperate for a way to break the gangs hold on the community, so three years ago, he agreed to let cutone and a small team of elite troopers most of them war veterans, too target the north end, which had become a violent marketplace for some of the cheapest heroin in the whole country. In addition to drug busts, they walked the streets, knocked on doors, hung out in neighborhood shops trying to woo the locals. Cutone here for pastries today, food . Woman yes. Cutone outstanding. This is the best place in springfield stahl but there was a lot of skepticism; not everyone welcomed the troopers. Cutone i could remember one door, the last knock of the day that i had. A grandmother comes out, and she just teed off on me. Wanted nothing to do with me, used colorful language, said the police were racist, et cetera, et cetera. Stahl but they kept at it, almost daily. Cutone trooper mike cutone. Nice to see you, sir. Stahl . And eventually began developing sources and tips. Cutone were not just using bad guys for information and getting information; were using the other 99 of the population that live there, winning them over. They become our eyes and ears. And the floodgates have opened for criminal information that we can go after now. Stahl the floodgates have opened . Cutone yes, they have. Stahl that much . Cutone yes, that much. Myself and the other troopers, my phone is ringing constantly every day, either text messages. Theyll send me pictures of where they located guns. Theyll send me emails of whos selling drugs. Stahl one of the keys to Building Trust in iraq, cutone says, was having his counterinsurgency team move into the town, sending a message were not going away. Yeah, but eventually you drive off. Cutone we do drive off, but when we drive off, weve given them a template on how to control their town independently and without fear. Stahl with the uncertainty about counterinsurgencys ultimate success overseas, the troopers and local police are determined to build something permanent in springfield. Cutone as always, remember why we are here. Stahl and essential to that is a regular thursday elders meeting. Local residents come together with politicians, police, health and housing organizations, educators, businessmen and latino leaders. So, how important are these meetings to the Overall Mission . Cutone theyre crucial. Theyre crucial. What we found out is, you had all these different groups that do good work for lowincome folks in troubled areas. None of them were talking with each other. So, the thursday meeting brought all these people together. Karen pullman, a nurse from baystate, raises her hand at one thursday eeting and says, hey, i want to create a Walking School bus. Were like, whats a Walking School bus . Thats great. Stahl fear of the gangs was so high that parents and kids were often afraid to walk the streets. Cutone carlos, miguel. Nice to meet you, carlos. Stahl now, big, burly troopers and teachers walk neighborhood kids to school. Its a strong visual message to the families there that the troopers and police are protecting their children and taking control of the streets back from the gangs. Cutone and thats the beauty of the thursday meeting. Its empowering the residents and the people that come to it. Kit parker lesley, theyre just like the village elder meetings i was doing in every village i patrolled in in afghanistan. Stahl major kit parker is a professor of engineering at harvard. He also led counterinsurgency operations in afghanistan. Parker the key thing with counterinsurgency, based on my experience is make a friend. Make a friend. I dont have to find the enemy, i have to find a friend. If you find your friends, theyre going to take you to your enemy. Stahl he was on National Guard training one weekend two years ago, telling a group from his unit that he wanted to find a Police Department to test out using counterinsurgency against gangs. Believe it or not, mike cutone was in his unit. Cutone and then i shared with him, hey, were doing this in springfield, and his eyes lit up. Stahl his eyes lit up . His jaw dropped, is what he told us. Cutone yeah. Parker he said he had a bad gang problem in the north end of springfield. He said people were riding around on motorcycles with assault rifles slung over their back. And i got this vision of mogadishu. I got this vision of kandahar province where i saw this all the time two guys on a motorcycle, ones got a ak47 on his back. And then i told mike, i said, i teach a class at harvard. Let me see if i can bring this class in on this. Stahl and so, last spring, parker turned his junior engineering class into a counterinsurgency lab. Parker help me understand what kind of intelligence i need to collect when i am in the field, whether it is in the north end, im on main street standing by the taco truck, or if i am in kandahar city. Thats the kind of data i need. Stahl parker had his students, with their computer smarts, develop software for intelligence collection. With it, the troopers are building a database of gang members similar to what special forces are doing overseas. You have two tattoos. Stahl the troopers collect data as they book suspects, like criminal histories and tattoos. Two tear drops. Stahl . And use the information to make maps of the gangs social networks who they know and who they associate with. Once a gangs key figures are identified, the troopers try and remove them from the streets in hopes of fracturing the entire network. Cutone hi, maam. How you doing today . Stahl cutone brought parker and his students onto the streets of springfield so the class could survey the residents to see if any of the symptoms of that failed community had been alleviated. Parker they took a look at everything from s. T. D. Rates in neighborhoods where you have gang activity, litter, graffiti, school attendance, all of these things. Stahl they found that since the counterinsurgency operation started, north end schools have seen fewer discipline problems and drug offenses, and that litter and gang graffiti is no longer everywhere in sight important indicators, parker says, that the community is no longer totally under the gangs control. Parker what were seeing is that the number of calls for service is going up in the north end. So, that means. Stahl theyre reporting crime. Parker thats right. Theyre reporting crime. And i see that means the legitimacy of the Mass State Police and the springfield p. D. Has increased, and the residents of the north end realize they are their instrument to clean up their neighborhood. Teddy cupak ive been robbed 55 times that the police know about, but not lately. Stahl at the thursday Community Meeting we attended, residents like teddy cupak said this is the first time the police have really made a difference in the north end. Cupak this is what i want to get across this concept does work. It sort of flushes them out. I dont know where they go. I hope they get help. Cutone well, hey, teddy, some of them are going to work, and some are going to jail and some leave. Cupak thats right. Cutone thats my cell number. Dont give my cell number out. I dont want to get prank phone calls at 3 00 in the morning. If you are really looking for a job, we know a guy that hires kids and puts them to work doing construction work. Stahl let me ask you something. Those functions that you are performing, that sounds to me like a social service job instead of a police job. Cutone if the government is not going to do it, or individuals arent going to do it, why cant the Police Provide leadership or partner up with the community and say, hey, heres a plan. This is what we want to do to help . Because the status quo of traditional policing, it aint just going to work. Its not going to work. Stahl but you are still making drug arrests. Cutone but, see, you are misconstruing it like youre going to eliminate drugs completely. Youre not. What you want to do is reduce it to a level where you can manage it and then single them out one by one, versus having it rampant throughout the city. Stahl Springfield Police say they are managing it in their target neighborhood of the north end. They say Violent Crime fell last year by 25 ; drug offenses dropped nearly 50 . Cutone how long ago did that happen, sir . Stahl to show us how theyre using the tips theyre getting to fracture the gang networks, cutone took us on a nighttime drug raid. Police radio targets out, targets out. Stahl it was like a military operation adapted in interesting ways for an american city. Cutone they are in what looks a bread truck, an unmarked bread truck. Stahl but the bread truck was filled with a swat team looking like soldiers riding into battle. State police, search warrant state police, search warrant stahl as they burst in, someone on the second floor hurled something out the window. What do they got . Looks like a glock. Stahl a semiautomatic pistol. They also found around five grams of heroin and arrested three young men the police say are drug dealers, members of a local gang one of them just 15 years old. But that wasnt the most important thing the team did that night. Very quickly, cutone and the troopers turned their attention to the neighbors. Cutone im sorry, what is your name . Carlos carlos. Cutone carlos, nice to meet you. I like your rosary. I got one in my pocket. Stahl even on these kinds of operations, they put on the charm offensive. Cutone we want to engage these other folks and let them know whats going on and why were here. Stahl and that was part of the operation. Cutone absolutely. Stahl this summer, mike cutone and his army unit are being deployed to teach counterinsurgency to the afghan forces. 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