and i want to thank all of you in this audience from adult probation, juvie probation, inter98 (inaudible) for helping me carve what we can do in this city. many of you know i've been a champion for jobs and i truly believe job creation and better economics is going to be a big answer. but it isn't the only answer because i quickly realized, i can't give a dead kid a job in this city. there's no answer for that. we've got to find better answers for people who are confronted with decisions they have to make to not take the violent road for that decision. and it starts early and many of you reminded me, start now, mayor, start investing in education. start investing in community based ways in which we can reduce the attitude that violence can resolve something. and then make sure we work with our health departments and our medical experts to get to the things that people can't control among themselves. these are all things that i'm learning quickly and i asked for help and i'm getting it and that no mayor of any city should ever faced with these kinds of gun violence and so forth should sto

and his son is in juvie right now. >> we are looking at potentially a third generation. >> very close the son ends up going. >> i was busted when jesse was born. >> though his 15-year-old son, jesse, is only a short distance away in the county's juvenile facility, brecino can only communicate with him through letters. they write to each other frequently. >> said what's up, dad. that he's working out. he wants me to mail him a list of exercises so he can get healthy. he requested some legs and some arms. i think in juvenile hall they still have weights to work out on. >> briceno says he hopes jesse will follow his workout routine but not his life as a gang-banger. >> you know, everybody wants your children to be successful and succeed in life and be somebody. you know? but, you know, he is young. he is a teenager. sometimes he doesn't make the best decisions. you know? you can't force it. you know, it's like you can bring a horse to the water. but you can't make it drink, you know. ultimately, they're going to make their own decisions. >> though he has never been charged with murder, b

>> you get caught, then you're going to juvie. >> what about your mom?hurt. >> and hurt. yeah. >> and you shaking your head so you know that can happen to your mother, too. >> yeah. >> okay. then y'all you know this, why would you put yourself in that situation? >> maybe we got to take a risk sometimes. >> take a risk sometimes? >> yeah. >> you don't think about it. that's the part about being a juvenile. you're not fully thinking of what you're doing. you're just trying to be cool. you're trying to fit in. i'm real offended by what you said, and i'm putting myself in your mama's shoes right now. you telling me you willing to sell your momma out for whatever it is you think you needed. what were you robbing from? >> it's worth it. you must really want it. if you're taking a risk to do it. >> i don't know what you say is worth it. ain't nothing worth my momma to me, nothing. you guys ain't really paying attention how you hurting your mom. >> monroe never realized how his crimes would hurt his own mother until the day he was sentenced. >> when the judge ac

. >> even in their own words it's hard to unravel the mind of a juvie. our producers met 18-year-old stedman baird in the original lockup pendleton. >> last time we were here, it was summer and you were out in the cage. and now it's snowing and winter and where are you? >> back here. i got out, though, for a couple of months but i came back for battery. >> what made you do that? >> i don't know, just got into it with someone. >> you have seen your mom? >> not since she came to see me coach. i don't really like seeing my family in here. >> how do you feel about getting out? >> i'm nervous but anxious. i don't know what it will be like out there. it's been three years. i don't know what it will be like. i don't know. life one day at a time. you make mistakes, you have to learn from your mistakes. >> he could be acting just fine while here's in school and then the very next second he could be having an outburst and be hurting someone. and it just comes out of nowhere. you don't ever give up because you never know what's going to work today that didn't work