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- Photo: Jason Broom reaches out with his cell phone while in an east side neighborhood in Kansas City, Mo., Thursday, May 28, 2009. Broom, 38, is part of a program named Aim4Peace that sends reformed criminals into some of the city's tensest neighborhoods to calm beefs before they turn violent.
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Ex-convicts working to prevent future convicts
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An argument earlier in the day between teens from rival neighborhoods had Jason Broom worried as he stood in a pothole-riddled parking lot pondering his next move. Broom was released from prison last year after serving time in two killings and is now a conflict mediator on Kansas City's gang-infested east side. (full story)
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