How The Worst Kind Of Personal Sorrow Led LA Violence Reduction Expert Aqeela Sherrills To Help Newark, NJ, Lower Its Murder Rate [witnessla.com]
Aqeela Sherrills, a former Grape Street Crip, who was one of the primary architects of t he famous Blood-Crip truce of 1992, has been working for nearly three years to lower gun violence in Newark, New Jersey, as the creator and director of something called the “Newark Community Street Team” or NCST. Sherrills, who lives in Watts, originally came to Newark at the invitation of Mayor Ras Baraka to create a small pilot project to address the city’s violence at a time when Newark’s police...