This last trend, changing measures of success, leads me to our first of five challenges. Entire neighborhoods and entire cities and counties have now subscribed to the belief that crime is a community-wide problem whose solution rests with the community. The Second challenge for our work in this millennium is the need to implement a new policy framework that brings teens on board as signatories of the social contract. However optimistic we may be about the success of prevention, we cannot succeed unless we take guns out of the crime equation. A fourth challenge is placing prevention prominently on the public policy map.
Policy is made as much in sound bites as in sound logic in our day and age.
The final challenge is rekindling personal commitment based on our deepest principles. All rights reserved.