Teferi Brent is out of patience.

The Detroit minister had been involved in Community Violence Intervention work long before federal stimulus dollars to fund such programs ever became available. CVI groups here worked with limited resources, scraping together the dollars to fund the business of saving lives.

CVI is a proven strategy for preventing and reducing gun violence in American cities, the holy grail of street violence prevention, cultivated over decades by a loosely connected, nationwide network of volunteers, activists, academics, church figures and forward-thinking law enforcement leaders. Long-term research, irrepressible determination and, yes, federal dollars have led to unprecedented results in Detroit , Philadelphia , Chicago , Baltimore , Oakland and other cities

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