I left it about four years ago and started working in cities across the United States, 19 in total, and what I found out was that in those cities, there was always this component of community leaders who put their heads down and their nose to the grindstone, who checked their egos at the door and saw the whole as greater than the sum of its parts, and came together and found ways to work with youth out on the streets, that the solution is not more cops, but the solution is mining the assets that are there in the community, to have a strong community component in the collaboration around violence reduction.
La dejé hace unos 4 años y empecé a trabajar en muchas ciudades estadounidenses, 19 en total, y descubrí que en esas ciudades siempre sobresalía este detalle en los líderes comunitarios que trabajaban incesantemente, que se olvidaban de sus egos y veían a la comunidad como algo mayor que sus integrantes, y que se juntaban para trabajar con los jóvenes en las calles, que la solución no es más policías, sino aprovechar los activos que hay en la comunidad, para fortalecer ese componente comunitario para colaborar y reducir la violencia.