Louisville police contacted the Ten Point Coalition about sharing ideas that could help Louisville's crime fight.

INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - People saving their neighborhoods by knowing their neighborhoods. That's part of the Ten Point Coalition's creed.

"(They've) been breaking in and stealing cars over there," says a Ten Point Coalition pastor as the group prepares for a westside walk.

"Some of the things they bring to you is trouble going on in their lives," said volunteer Deborah Mays. "Maybe financial issues. And a lot of times we are able to help."

The group's walks are credited with helping some northside neighborhoods reach streaks of over 300 consecutive days with no fatal shootings, areas that saw far too much of such violence in previous years.

Could walking work in Louisville?

Louisville has seen a recent spike in murders. With over 80 in just nine months this year, they're already ahead of the murder count for all of last year.

Ten Point Pastor Charles Harrison said Louisville police has contacted his group about sharing ideas that could help Louisville's crime fight.

"I'm very familiar with that area," Harrison said. "Matter of fact my brother was killed in Louisville in the mid-70s and I had a nephew killed on the west end of Louisville in the mid 90s."

Harrison is from Jeffersonville Indiana, across the Ohio from Louisville. Indianapolis police chief Troy Riggs is from Louisville. In a way, they're twin cities, seeking solutions to twin problems.

A Ten Point volunteer said he thinks the strategy can work in Louisville too. "There were times we just de-escalated trouble," he said. "People just down on their luck. "(We) kind of guide them to the right place where they can get themselves together, quite a few things. Things you don't see unless you're out on the street.

That kind of information-sharing has happened before. After Ferguson, Ten Point went to St. Louis and talked to ministers there about the effectiveness of "walking the walk".