Reporter at News 5 Cleveland
CLEVELAND — A gang prevention program is helping to keep at-risk youth away from gang activity and violence.
“There’s a lot of violence in the city of Cleveland, and I was a person that used to perpetuate violence in the city. When I came home from prison, I wanted to give back to the community in which I destroyed," said Douglas. “The violence interrupters have monitoring routes, they do safe Passages at CMSD schools and we have hotspot checks also. They have a caseload of five youth minimum on their caseload, and when there are shots fired in the city of Cleveland, we go to the scenes and we deal with the communities. We also do crowd control, so when the police are at the scene, they can just worry about the scene, and we're right here with the community," said Douglas.
Violence interrupter Jeffrey Crosby had federal and state convictions before the age of 23 years old; from experience, he said lack of values is what is leading a lot of these kids down the wrong path. Which is why he focuses on being a positive role model in their lives.
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