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CONFLITS AS POSSIBLE. >> WHAT DO WE WANT? >> SAFE STREETS. >> WHEN DO WE WANT IT? >> NOW! KAI: NEIGHBORS NEAR THE WALK THROUGH SANDTOWN-WINCHESTER DEFINITELY KNEW SAFE STREETS MARCHERS WERE NEARBY. YOU COULDN’T MISS THEM. >> OUR BABIES ARE GETTING SHOT. KAI: THEY WERE LOUD AND THEY WERE PASSIONATE, AND THAT’S EXACTLY THE POINT. >> USUALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS THE PERSON GETS SHOT AFTER THE POLICE ROLL OUT WE JUST PICK UP AND KEEP MOVING WITH OUR DAY TO DAY AS IF THAT’S JUST A NORMAL THING. WE WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT IT’S NOT NORMAL FOR HUMAN BEINGS TO BE OUT HERE SHOOTING AND KILLING ONE ANOTHER. KAI: ORGANIZERS SAY THEY CALL IT A SAFE WALK. BECAUSE THEY WANT PEOPLE TO JOIN IN BE PART OF THE SOLUTION. THE WALK WAS SCHEDULED AFTER THE WEDNESDAY MURDER OF A YOUNG MAN OVER THE WEEKEND. HE COLLAPSED RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM DIANE BLIC A RE-PLAY OF HER WORST NIGHTMARE. >> 2013, MY SON WAS 20-YEARS-O HE WAS SHOT RIGHT THERE WHERE THOSE PEOPLE ARE STANDING BY THE FENCE AND WE LIVE RIGHT HERE LIVES ARE VERY IMPORTANT AND THE MOTHERS AND THE GRANDMOTHERS ARE THE ONES WHO ARE REALLY SUFFERING AFTER SOMEONE DIES. >> WE ARE TRAINED CONFLICT MEDIATORS. KA RIGHT NOW, THERE ARE 4 SAFE STREET SITES WHERE ORGANIZERS INITIATE THE WALKS ABOUT 2 TO 3 TIMES A MONTH. THEY SAY 6 MORE WILL OPEN BY THE END OF THE SUMMER. >> WE HAVE A SAFE STREETS FORMULA. IT’S CALLED CANVASSING PLUS BUILDING RAPPORT TIMES MEDIATION EQUALS REDUCTION OF SHOOTINGS AND HOMICIDES. >> WE WANT TO TRY MAKE SAFE STREETS A MOVEMENT AND WHAT WE MEAN BY THAT IS WE WANT THE WHOLE CITY TO BE PART OF THIS SAFE STREETS INITIATIVE. WE WANT EVERYONE TO START SAYING STOP SHOOTING, START LIVING. KAI: FOR ORGANIZERS, T GOAL IS TO SEE A CHANGE IN THE NUMBER OF SHOOTINGS AND HOMICIDES IN THE SPECIFIC ZONES AFTER A SEVER MONTH PERIOD AND THEY SAY THEY HAVE SEEN IMPROVEMEN

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Connecting people in the neighborhood and stopping the violence: That was the goal of a Safe Streets event in Sandtown-Winchester on Wednesday night. Neighbors near the walk through Sandtown-Winchester definitely knew Safe Streets marchers were nearby. They were hard to miss.They were loud and passionate, and that's exactly the point."Usually what happens is the person gets shot, after the police roll out, we just pick up and keep moving with our day to day as if that's just a normal thing. We want people to know that it's not normal for human beings to be out here shooting and killing one another," Imhotep Faitu, of Safe Streets, said. Organizers say they call it a safe walk because they want people to join in and be part of the solution.The walk Wednesday was scheduled after the murder of a young man over the weekend.He collapsed right across the street from the home of Diane Blick, who is a resident in the area. It's a replay of her worst nightmare, she said. "(In) 2013, my son was 20 years old. He was shot right there where those people are standing by the fence, and we live right here," Blick said. "Lives are very important, and the mothers and the grandmothers are the ones who are really suffering after someone dies."There are four Safe Streets sites where organizers initiate the walks about two to three times a month. They say six more will happen by the end of the summer."We have a Safe Streets formula. It's called canvassing plus building reports times mediation equals reduction of shootings and homicides," Gregory Marshburn, of Safe Streets, said. "We want to try to make Safe Streets a movement, and what we mean by that is we want the whole city to be part of this Safe Streets initiative. We want everyone to start saying, 'Stop shooting, start living.'"Organizers' goal is to see a change in the number of shootings and homicides in the specific zones after a several-month period, and they say they have seen improvements.