i have known greg boyle for 25 years. i worked with him when he routinely received death threats. people believed he was trying to help gang members. the lapd called him a hug- hugger. i will repeat everything that they have said, not because of sore afraid of using profanity but because it was a different lapd. it was rumored that the mexican mafia was allowed to meet in his church and that he held guns for gang members. and he was helping gang members across the border. i am certain he knew where the body of jimmy hoffa was buried when you got done listening to the rumors. now, the lapd uses home with industries as an integral part of its anti-gang efforts. not all of them, not 9000 members, but i can tell you this, homeboy industries have their annual benefit to honor people in the community as well as former gang members, the person they honored was chief charlie of the lapd. unless you think that was an anomaly, the year before they honored the sheriff. there is an alliance between community-based organizations, and law-enforcement. this is not enough. there has also been in

>> it's what father greg boyle created. good friend of mine. he did in east l.a.ti-ethnic citywide program. eighty tattoo removal, mental counseling, treatment, drug treatment, give you jobs. seven industries that they get into. running their own restaurant, learning how the set their own businesses. they try to provide opportunities, but also knowledge and a connection that allows them tough to do something really meaningful. but just what people think they might need to do, but also not end up in the presence of the juvenile all and the drug life that most of these kids do. >> please go ahead with your questionnaire comment. >> thank you. before i ask, i have two questions. please, the computer graphics people, please leave the telephone numbers up on the screens much longer than you do. not only on the weekends, but also on the weekday morning washington program. here are my two questions. i'm awfully sorry that i am neither hispanic or a former gang member. i hope you can relate to these questions. i am a former -- i was an artist as a teenager myself. [inaudi

priest that started program, father greg boyle, gang-related problems is number one problem they go searchingin the area. homeboy save the city and county and states millions of dollars a year because it keeps some of these men and women out of trouble. >> we offer them a way out of the life, the gang life. so it is not enough to tell them to get off this crazy freeway called gang involvement. you have to have exit ramps. this is a clear marked, well-known exit ramp for gang members. >> reporter: every month, martha, about 1000 new men and women come through homeboy's doors to take advantage of the program. martha: that is just one of the programs they have, right, adam? >> reporter: that is one. one group we got to see them in action, redemption foods hollywood, california. same thing, jail to jobs scenario. a pub, that looking fantastic place with fantastic meat and fantastic sandwiches. every employee is a ex-con. when we were there the place was packed. owner says it is about giving everyone a second chance. >> a place we not only redeem food and lives and places. ing guys involved in the