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

father greg boyle, the catholic priest who runs the homeboy industries program in los angeles, has successfullymoved young people from a life of games and violence and drugs and drug dealing into the workforce, just by putting his arms around those young people and believing and affirming their ability to his average is nothing stops a bullet like a job. so the importance of jobs at the committee level sorting is to be a part of this conversation as well. and, finally, in boston, and chicago as i mentioned them in richmond, community-based efforts, real partnership efforts, local police and public safety officials, public safety officials saying we can't arrest our way out of the problem of disconnected and unengaged youth. we need to make sure that we are giving them an opportunity, reform our juvenile justice system in the way the state of missouri has shown great leadership and showing a young people get caught up through a life of violence, in the juvenile justice system have an opportunity get their lives back on track. so this country is demonstrating through public-private partnerships a