Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, And The End of Violence in Inner-City America
Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country. In some neighborhoods in America, one out of every two hundred y…
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