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Give us some insight into exactly what it is you have been doing so that we can better understand it. >> so i work in some of the most desperate neighborhoods in the country. they are largely very historically damaged african-american neighborhoods. they have all kinds of issues and problems we need to pay attention to. there are a couple of things that are not part of the usual historical fabric that we've been dealing with that are doing tremendous damage. these are neighborhoods where if you are a young black man, one in 200 of you in these communities are killed by gunshot every year. they...

Diseased. some grew out of it. some were in prison. most grew out of it. some were in prison. the ones who went to prison diseased came home criminal. and the cycle of these people going in and out created criminal culture in the streets. and it damaged wholeç communities. so we took diseased people and we put them back into communities as criminals and changed community's fabrics. that's an ongoing problem. that cycle of in and out of jail. we found that it's not helpful in terms of eliminating crime. in fact, it's the core of crime. the creation of crimes. that's the problem we're discussi...