![In this July 20 photo, Joshua Simon, left, and Lawrence Brown, right, outreach workers with Save Our Streets, an organization that employs former gang-members and residents to stop fights from escalating to violence, canvas Bedford-Stuyvesant. Both serve as mentors teaching young men and women on how to resolve disputes without bloodshed. AP Photos/Stephen Groves](https://brooklyneagle.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/violence-disruptors.jpg)
NYC enlists former gang members as ‘violence interrupters’
David Gaskin steps into the street armed with a bullhorn. Cars swerve...
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