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BALTIMORE, MD -- MARCH 03: Safe Streets staff review mapping data on shootings to determine when are where the most violence is occurring. The team will use the results to determine where the greatest need is. Lamont Medley, Violence Interruptor, left, and I Michael Brown, Outreach Worker, point out hotspots.

Safe Streets is a program started in Baltimore to cut gun violence in the most dangerous communities in the city by deploying Violence Interruptors to deescalate conflicts before they turn deadly.

The newest post has just opened in the long beleaguered Sandtown community which was ground zero for the city's unrest following the death of Freddie Gray…. (photo by Andre Chung for The Washington Post)

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BALTIMORE, MD -- MARCH 03: Safe Streets staff review mapping data on shootings to determine when are where the most violence is occurring. The team will use the results to determine where the greatest need is. Lamont Medley, Violence Interruptor, left, and I Michael Brown, Outreach Worker, point out hotspots.<br />
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Safe Streets is a program started in Baltimore to cut gun violence in the most dangerous communities in the city by deploying Violence Interruptors to deescalate conflicts before they turn deadly. <br />
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The newest post has just opened in the long beleaguered Sandtown community which was ground zero for the city's unrest following the death of Freddie Gray…. (photo by Andre Chung for The Washington Post)