Jeffrey Brown: How we cut youth violence in Boston by 79 percent

An architect of the Boston miracle, Rev. Jeffrey Brown started out as a bewildered young pastor watching his Boston neighborhood fall apart around him, as drugs and gang violence took hold of the kids on the streets. The first step to recovery: Listen to those kids, don t just preach to them, and help them reduce violence in their own neighborhoods. It s a powerful talk about listening to make change. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the