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The Metropolitan Peace Academy and its street outreach workers carry out direct and intense work in neighborhoods, especially with young people who are part of gangs or have committed crimes, to help both victims and perpetrators break the cycle of violence. The work of Ricardo Estrada and Jesús Salazar, among others, at this institution is based on having themselves experienced and overcome violence, and then projecting their commitment, knowledge, and empathy to help others, especially young people, and to prevent violence in Latino neighborhoods of Chicago ....
A 50% decline in murders from last year would put the city at fewer than 400 a total the city last saw in 1965, when there were 395 slayings, according to the Chicago Police Department. ....
Phillips is a former Black Disciples leader featured in an Emmy Award-winning “violence interrupters” documentary. He struck out twice. Plenty of people are backing him to make it this time. ....
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