Keeping the youngest from gangs

Los Angeles would pump millions of dollars into the training and oversight of anti-gang groups to sway at-risk kids from joining street gangs in violent neighborhoods, the city's anti-gang czar proposed Wednesday. Brandon Lowrey in the Daily News.

The proposed $5 million program would create a training and certification process for city-funded gang intervention workers and require them to meet frequently with kids likely to join a gang - and those kids' parents.

"Any of our prevention programs working with young people at risk of joining gangs are going to have a significant family component," said the Rev. Jeff Carr, the city's anti-gang czar, in his first quarterly report to the City Council on Wednesday.