Night November 28, 2006, the Rev. Jeffrey Brown, a Baptist minister and co-founder of the ten points of the coalition in Boston, Massachusetts, got the bad news: 20-year-old Jahmol Norflit, the leader of one of the warring gangs of Boston, was shot dead outside his home. Norflit death of the author is not just represent another grim statistics in a year marred by gang violence in Boston: he threatened to undo the fragile truce between the two gangs that have been locked in a deadly feud for years. Brown, along with a handful of police and other officials, was instrumental in coaxing gang members Norflit among them, to the table and forging peace between the rival groups. Less than ten years ago, the so-called "Boston Miracle"-a sharp decline in homicides, especially among the urban youth has been allocated by President Clinton as a model for other nations. Among the heroes of this miracle were Brown and his colleagues sponsoring ten points Coalition, a group of African- American priests. In addition to walking the most dangerous streets in the city in an attempt to reach out to gang members, Brown and other members of the coalition have also become members of the initiative-wide operations cease-fire, "partnership" in the Boston police, probation officers, court officers, youth workers, prosecutors scientists and others who have been widely credited with steep gang-related killings. success brought national and international recognition, but ultimately led to fracture the coalition and alliance operations cease-fire. Now, faced with a resurgence in gang shootings, Brown, along with others who took part in Operation Ceasefire, sought not only to revive a strategy that proved so successful in the past, but also to find new ways to stop the cycle of retaliatory killings, killings that led Boston to a ten-year high. HKS Case Number 1887.0 "Hide
by Esther Scott, Peter Zimmerman 25 pages. Publication Date: November 15, 2007. Prod. #: HKS329-PDF-ENG
