They don't mind killing, they don't.
Is without hesitation.
It's almost like assassins gangs,
and the triad are getting more violent
and we have the numbers to prove it.
It's not because there are more of them,
but because they're
recruiting younger kids, WFM
wine is to use Jenna Kurzyna talk
with a former gang member who
was part of the problem but is
now working toward a solution.
What's your emergency?
Away.
It's been times where I
really had to hop in front
of a gun. It's a bird. Don't do it,
but. I will shoot this man
these days. Legrand Roseborough
puts himself in harm's way.
He's a violence interrupter trying
to deescalate gang conflict.
He's trying to make his home
Greensboro a safer place.
I've gotten calls where guys like you.
I'm on the way to go shoot this bro.
I'm bout to go shoot this house up or I
might go do XYZ and all I gotta say is
come here like come see me and they'll
come see me give him his gun give me his
gun and you know I hold on for two I'm
not gonna keep his gun but you know.
For why you hot right now,
let me hold this.
And then when you cool down and
come and come back and see me
again and we'll talk like that
kids, he tries to help relate to
him because at 18 he joined a gang.
I mean, literally people were asking
me to do it since I was a little kid.
The Greensboro Police Department
doesn't have a unit dedicated just
to gangs, but has noticed a trend
we've seen seen a younger victimization
seemed like specially here recently
over in Forsyth County.
Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough says
that's the problem. They
don't mind killing. They don't.
Some of the things that I have seen
that have been captured on video.
Is without hesitation.
It's almost like assassins.
Their brains aren't fully formed,
they don't know what kind of
decisions they're making and what the
repercussions are for those decisions,
and so that's what concerns us.
If you've got ten 1112 year old
kids that are getting involved
in the gang lifestyle that are
glorifying the gang lifestyle,
that is problematic for us.
Take a look at the numbers.
There are 600 validated gang
members in Forsyth County alone,
but up to 2000 on law enforcement's radar
investigators say those are the ones
targeting kids to join Winston-Salem.
Police Department has a gang unit.
Sergeant Tyler Wally says most
aren't well known gangs like
the Bloods and ***** hybrid
gangs. Those are going to be
ones that are locally set up.
They affiliate with a neighborhood
or they affiliate with just a
group of people or a rap label
or something along those lines.
And those of where we've seen
the real increase in our numbers.
The Department of Public Safety says
hybrid gangs commit more low level crimes
but have a tendency to be more violent.
There's been an increase among gangs to
jump people in which is an initiation.
Into the gang and then one that jump
pins that they're having to do is steal
weapons and we're seeing a big uptick,
especially in the Triad area
of gangster having initiations
where they're getting kisses.
Still, those weapons they're more
and more likely to use firearms
and automatically by using far
more firearms in an incident that
makes it a more serious incident.
Two wants to know how kids get guns,
Sheriff Kimbrough explains.
The only St. Car breakings we leave him.
House breaking, they give them the big
homie who was old enough to buy a gun.
Give the gun to the little homie,
the little soldier.
I can get a gun quicker than I can.
Probably get a doctor pepper or Mountain Dew.
Bloom and we may not want to accept it,
but the facts are the facts.
You know the children or the young
juveniles and data joining these gangs.
They are products of their current
environment, their products of the
society in which they're living in.
The sheriff says this isn't
the worst of the problems.
If something isn't done,
games provide something that.
Ah, they're not getting in their
communities and not getting in their homes.
Bottom line is that we've got to bring
our kids and we gotta show our kids some
things that they've never seen before.
That's exactly what
Roseborough works towards.
His sister introduced him to cure violence.
The organization aims to stop
violence by treating the problem
as a health issue and using
behavior changing methods.
He tries to show gang members
there is more to life,
even if it means sometimes risking his. We
try to help each other get better every day.
Jenna kurzyna. W FM Y News 2. Public safety
officials say prevention and timing are key.
They say if a team can be reached within
their first year as a gang member,
there is a better chance of getting them out.