Cross-Posted from the Real News

The Cherry Hill neighborhood of Baltimore went 400 days without a homicide despite record high crime rates. How did they do it? It wasn’t the police.

NEWSCASTERS: The deadly shooting of a one-year-old boy over the weekend. It happened Friday night in Cherry Hill. He was shot along Cherry Hill Road. Last week’s deadly shooting of a one-year-old boy in this Cherry Hill neighborhood.

JAISAL NOOR, PRODUCER, TRNN: A neighborhood once synonymous with crime, violence and murder in Baltimore.

MAYOR: I grew up knowing that Cherry Hill was, you know, notorious for the amount of violence.

NOOR: Is now being lauded for going over 400 days without a homicide at a time of record number of killings around the city. How did Cherry Hill residents overcome chronic poverty, unemployment, and crime to stop the killings?

SPEAKER: The police don’t do nothing out here. They never did and never will. You know what I mean, we police ourself.

SPEAKER: Myself along with Safe Streets and other leaders of the community, we just stay hands-on. We just stay engaged with the community, with the young people, we’re always out here. Constantly giving that message of no violence.

NOOR: How did Cherry Hill residents overcome chronic poverty, unemployment and crime to stop the killings? And how did things get so bad in Cherry Hill in the first place?

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