Marc Steiner: ‘We have to rethink the way we fight crime’

January 22, 2008

Today, WYPR host Marc Steiner speaks out on his past work as a juvenile counselor and what he thinks needs to be done in Baltimore on the Open Society Institute’s “Audacious Ideas” blog.

In Make things work NOW, he writes:

What I am proposing is that the city, state, philanthropies and businesses spend millions of dollars in gang prevention and youth intervention. Hire, train and supervise hundreds of ex-felons to work in the streets with youth and families. Take the health department experiment of Operation Safe Streets and expand it city-wide. In one sector where OSS is working there hasn’t been a murder in a year. We don’t have time to do this piecemeal.

Read Marc’s proposal and tell us what you think.

JACKIE SAUTER, Multimedia Editor

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Posted by Jackie Sauter | Filed Under Baltimore, crime 

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