This fall, some headlines have seemingly repeated themselves; a violent crime happens and within a matter of hours, the public is informed juveniles are somehow involved. Violence intervention specialists say there are several reasons behind the trend.
DENVER — This fall, some headlines have seemingly repeated themselves; a violent crime happens and within a matter of hours, the public is informed that juveniles are somehow involved. Violence intervention specialists say there are several reasons behind the trend.
"Secondary violence interruption is basically going to scenes of violence and working there with some of the people who are victims, maybe to deter any retaliations, you know, share resources to family that needs it," he said."Just kind of defuse any situations that may arise from that bad situation that has happened."
"The 12-year-old was tragically pronounced deceased a short time later and the 14-year-old remains hospitalized with serious injuries," officers said in a press release at the time, later saying in an affidavit in the case the boy who was hospitalized was actually 13 years old. A person of interest was arrested in the case.
"You have a lot of generational gang activity and what that means is, it's more normalized in these communities," he said."So where granddad was or may have started that gang, son is in that gang and now grandson is following that line."
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