>> she's lall right. >> homeless young people living among trash. >> this is now allowed to be goinge worse you have seen it? >> i have never seen anything like this. >> you grew up here? >> retired cop kevin bernard says covid pulls resources from the fight of opioid addiction and gun violence. >> our shooting did not stop. we have 199 homicides. >> it is only through the grace of god that things changed. that's what the chaplins are doing here. we are spiritual first responders. >> at the heart of the mission is the 52-year-old buddy osborne. he was convicted on racketeering charges. after he was released, he found god. >> the next generation of those kids should not have to experience what they experienced on the everyday basis in kensington. >> what's the answer? >> the answer is you doing your job and me doing my job and the mayor doing their job and everyone of us coming together to do our job. that's the solution. to me, when it is one person trying to make a change it don't work. >> reporter: volunteers approaching kids throughout the pandem pandemic, keeping the kids from a