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Battlefield. that's what gary mccarthy said and that is what many citizens who live in the neighborhoods are also saying, these guns are illegal and coming into this area from other parts of the country and often purchased illegally or purchased legally and sold on down the line. soon enough they get into the hands of the wrong people in neighborhoods like this and those people are the gangs. you know, the school system here has already got a safe passage program in place to help kids get from school and home and back again without getting shot. that's the situation that exists in neighborhood...

>> on another side of this crime, the sister of one of the suspects, james edwards, spoke with this program and said that her brother was connected and affiliated in some way with gang activity. not suggesting he was part of a gang, but that he was certainly connected to gang members. duncan is such a small place and it has such a low crime rate. do you think perhaps there may be a gang issue if not a gang problem in your town? >> you know, i'm not naive enough to think there might not be any here, but i can say this that we've been real blessed to -- we've had real control of that. and we hav...

Dangerous place to be. i really don't think that is fair. i understand that is an international incident. it is an extremely unfortunate incident. but as greg points out, crime has been cut since 1992. it is important to see it is a gang problem. we see shootings like that happening in gangs, all over the country, mostly in bigger cities. but we do see these things happening in smaller communitying communityingcommunityi-- communities. why are gangs not the crips and the bloods not seen as hate groups? because they essentially hate each other, crips don't like bloods, and bloods don't like c...

>> clearly the gang problem is so large, no part of the prison is safe from the politics. before officer garcia and the igi staff consider putting former gang members together on the sny, they must be convinced dropouts are sincere in their desire to leave the gang lifestyle behind. after the debriefing interviews have been conducted and the inmates have been approved, they move into the integrated yard program. >> this is phase two. what they have to do, is come over to this yard. it's an integrated yard program. they're going out to the yard with everybody that they used to, you know, consid...

I don't necessarily agree this is a do-nothing congress. there have been plans put forward. the president gets engaged if you want to get things done. >> do things to the terms that you want to focus on economics. at the same time we have this pointed outreach. more people have with the change of demographics. here's the issue, you have unemployment rate at 13 percent for african-american males for a long time. yesterday the republican paint doesn't see a way to engage people of color, engage african-american males on that point. democrats aren't doing that either. >> here's an issue at your c...