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>> a problem that now has the attention of and funding from the white house. u.s. attorney andrew lugar is spearheading the effort in minneapolis. >> if you were to boil down the solution how you're attacking this how would you describe it? >> the way the community described it to me. they wanted more community engagement by law enforcement, more mentoring through more job opportunities, afterschool programs, in-school programs intervention teams that grow out of the community working together at the early signs of radicalization radicalization. it's precisely what cartoonist mohamed akman is ...

Engagement capacity. in cincinnati here we just had a recruit class graduate just this week. their first week is not in the cruisers not chasing bad guys. their first week is a week of service. we call it emersion week here. they're feeding the homeless reading in the after school programs here in this community and engaged with the elderly. the people of cincinnati that need us the most the people here that have the most lack our officers are getting to know from their first days on the streets of cincinnati. we hope that's a life lesson that stays with them their entire careers. >> that soun...

Something they can hold on to. change people can take in dosage so they say and sometimes i can even listen to that advice. you are the example of some of the great things happening. how many of you are going to college. i can tell you out there they don't think that. and they are wrong. they are full of it. you are doing great things and i want you to know about. >> what do you think of the importance of civic service in our communities? >> here's the deal. you all raised your hand you are going to graduate. you know you stand out. so run for local school board. take on an issue. do an after-...

Process of change, give people something they can hold on to. change people can take in dosage so they say and sometimes i can even listen to that advice. you are the example of some of the great things happening. how many of you are going to college. i can tell you out there they don't think that. and they are wrong. they are full of it. you are doing great things and i want you to know about. >> what do you think of the importance of civic service in our communities? >> here's the deechl you all raised your hand you are going to graduate. you know you stand out. so run for local school board...

Milwaukee, senator taylor. how would you turn around those -- how would you turn around those test scores and performance that you just talked about. >> i think we need to create a reading program across the board that is not only until our after school programs but in every component of the curriculum. we have to put -- >> that's money. >> you could argue that it's money, ed, but some of those things are not. some of those things is just getting a math teacher to engage reading differently. for everyone to engage things differently. and i think that that's key, number one. number two, i think...