BALTIMORE, MD -- MARCH 03: Corey Winfield, Violence Prevention Coordinator, right, and Lamont Medley, Violence Interruptor, listen during a meeting. 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.
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)