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Police Superintendent Paul Joyce (center) talked with other police officials after a meeting with clergy and community leaders about stemming street violence in Boston.

City hopes gangs will be scared straight

By Suzanne Smalley
Globe Staff / February 16, 2006

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For the first time since at least 2002, Boston police, probation officers, ministers, and social workers met yesterday with young gang members and other high-risk youth to try to scare them straight as part of Operation Ceasefire. (Full article: 682 words)

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