MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Violence prevention programs have infiltrated Memphis' most dangerous streets over the past few years, and city leaders say it's helped de-escalate conflict and save lives. So if it's working, why is there now a fight for funding?

"Once violence has already happened, there's a need to go and intervene," K. Durell Cowan said. "We have a prevention leg, an intervention leg, and what we call the community stabilization leg."

Cowan is the executive director of Heal 901, a nonprofit working to de-escalate violence.

Basically, they treat a violence like an infectious disease. Once a shooting occurs, they work to stop the spread.

"We have to get in the middle, intervene and bring those representatives together and do a mediation," Cowan explained.

They then connect those on

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