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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • …concentrating resources on the small group of people — mostly young men and boys — who are most likely to be both victims and perpetrators of gun crime.

    Baltimore’s police have tried focusing on these high-risk young men before; what’s new here is the carrot: Baltimore partners with nonprofits to offer them job training, mental health support, housing assistance, and other services to try and head off gun crime before it happens.