Barack Obama actually said...

A lot of the emphasis is going to be on more effective community policing. A lot of the emphasis is going to be on how we are working together to give young people more constructive things to do and to give them more perspective in terms of why violence is unacceptable.

Context

Barack Obama discusses strategies to address violence in Chicago.

04/24/2008

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