Gangs in North Carolina
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A report by the governor's crime commission estimates that youth gangs in North Carolina are growing at an average rate of more than 10 percent per year. Youth counselors across the state are scrambling to develop programs that prove effective in curbing this growth. In Raleigh some have discovered a method that appears to be working. Next Generation Radio?s Dave Nourse reports
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A report by the governor's crime commission estimates that youth gangs in North Carolina are growing at an average rate of more than 10 percent per year. Youth counselors across the state are scrambling to develop programs that prove effective in curbing this growth. In Raleigh some have discovered a method that appears to be working. Next Generation Radio?s Dave Nourse reports
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Will air on WUNC July 9, 2007
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A report by the governor's crime commission estimates that youth gangs in North Carolina are growing at an average rate of more than 10 percent per year. Youth counselors across the state are scrambling to develop programs that prove effective in curbing this growth. In Raleigh some have discovered a method that appears to be working. Next Generation Radio's Dave Nourse reports
Walking into Second Round you pass a sign reading "No colors, hand signs or gang clothing allowed." Walk a little further and enter a dim, cavernous room, that smells of sweat and filled with about 25 young men and women. Several things immediately jump out, kids are jumping rope, jabbing punching bags and sidestepping on a regulation sized boxing ring.
Since it began in January 2006, the Second Round boxing program has been the after school home for dozens of Raleigh?s most disadvantaged young men and...
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A report by the governor's crime commission estimates that youth gangs in North Carolina are growing at an average rate of more than 10 percent per year. Youth counselors across the state are scrambling to develop programs that prove effective in curbing this growth. In Raleigh some have discovered a method that appears to be working. Next Generation Radio's Dave Nourse reports
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