A young man explains he first carried a knife at age 11 and that kids as young as nine now think it's normal.
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A sober, practical look at prevention, empathy, and the human cost of gang violence.
This episode takes on a hard question: what does it take to interrupt a gang violence cycle once grief has become normal for teenagers? It starts with a young person who has lost three close friends to knife crime, shootings, and gang violence, then moves into the usual answers…
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Want a grounded look at youth violence that goes past punishment and into prevention, grief, and the people trying to break the cycle?
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