I think politicians and people who govern are really behind the curve on this one. I think the community needs to do prevention and the community needs to do intervention and law enforcement needs to do enforcement, with care and with the real respect for the rights of people. That's enough to do, if they only did that. This community has always embraced a sense of the entire village needing to raise kids. People come to each other's aid when something terrible has happened.
People really rally.
It's unlike any other thing that I've ever seen. It's really quite extraordinary. If police officers don't know this community, then you don't have any hope of community policing. Because then the mother of the gang member becomes the fraternizer with the enemy and that's not very sophisticated and, ultimately, not very helpful. The mothers are my inspiration.