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On how we save our young people and save our community. [ applause ] >> anthony: the city is the place where all the bad stuff was supposed to happen, it was not suppose to be nice towns like greenfield. >> man: it isn't the image that people used to have 20 years ago that it's a junkie in an alley somewhere using a needle. it's not. it's your kids, it's your neighbors. >> chris: the worst i think is when you have these young people who break a leg and they go to the doctor and get a prescription for oxy and become addicted to it. these are any kid who plays a high school sport. it's a horribl...

>> anthony: otherwise, we still wouldn't be here. well, you know, many of our friends from those days didn't make it. >> john: many of my friends are dead, yeah. [ applause ] >> anthony: as you were. keep drinking, keep drinking. thank you. >> server: thank you, tony. >> anthony: this place has been here forever. that used to be the back room. >> john: back room's still there. >> anthony: see, it's all falling into place again. >> john: yeah. it's not that much different. >> anthony: it's early spring now, but come memorial day, it gets crazy around here and doesn't stop until labor day. provi...

I'm wicked proud of my heritage. and i would never do anything else. this is my office man, look at it. i'm going to do this until i can't move anymore. >> bo: we were all on the town like clockwork, 2:30, 3:00 in the morning. it's quiet, the town's been ripped up all night long. we come down here, hit the water. what could be better? >> anthony: good time to be here, and niceeather today. >> bo: yeah, pretty nice day. >> man: a little breezy. >> bo: might be a little nautical. a little bit. >> anthony: i'm sure i'll be fine, i've watched "the deadliest catch." >> bo: are you ready? >> anthony...

Life. where i am from, it's who i am. but it used to be like two out of three families in this town, this community, were fishing families. most of them are now gone. and we're really like a minority. used to be a fishing community with a homosexual problem. now it's a homosexual community with a fishing problem. >> anthony: the first portuguese fishermen arrived here in 1840. the main families created a community built around fishing, and this town lived off that industry well into the 20th century. it persisted even when i was here, keeping up old catholic fishing traditions like the blessin...

Sheriff, myself, the police department are all united. this task force has grown to over a hundred people in a matter of six months. and that's what we're committed to doing. and you know, we will do it until the day i die. >> woman: i lost one daughr to drugs. you know, whatever itake >> anthony: let's start by being honest with ourselves. as a nation, for decades, we were perfectly happy to write off whole neighborhoods, whole cities, whole generations of young men and women. as long as it was an inner city problem, an urban problem. which is to say, a black people problem, a brown people pr...