Baltimore is receiving high recognition from police, mayors, and the U.S. Department of Justice for Safe Streets, a program in which people with criminal backgrounds are hired to combat neighborhood violence that is modeled after a similar program in Chicago called CeaseFire. As reported by Melanie Eversley in USAToday.com, program success is attributed to the staff’s credibility on the streets -- they have all been involved in the criminal justice system themselves. Since Safe Streets was introduced in 2004, shootings have dropped 41 percent. The Justice Department plans to expand the number of program sites from two to four with a $2.2 million dollar grant.
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