City Hopes Outreach Workers Curb Crime; Neighborhood Counselors Sought

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The city is looking to the so-called Boston Miracle as a blueprint for confronting violent young men from rival neighborhoods who are shooting each other with alarming frequency. Over the next few months, the city says it will enlist a corps of street outreach workers from different neighborhoods to seek out the youths who are committing these crimes and to visit shooting scenes and hospital rooms to deliver a firm message that the neighborhood gang violence that is holding hostage the city's poorest neighborhoods has to end.

The street outreach program was one of a series of ideas touted by Mayor John DeStefano Jr. Thursday at the city's annual press conference to announce its year-end crime statistics.

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City Hopes Outreach Workers Curb Crime; Neighborhood Counselors Sought

While murders spiked by 66 percent, with 24 in 2006 compared to 15 the previous year, overall crime actually decreased, the city announced. The largest reductions came in larcenies, down by 10 p...

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