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Scope and Contents The mayor of Los Angeles, James Hahn, recently unveiled a plan to deal with the resurgence of gang violence. He plans to offer hundreds of at risk young people city jobs. The initiative would give $1.3 million to anti-gang programs and reassign a hundred officers from desk jobs to street patrol. The plan is needed in LA where the number of gang related murders has tripled in the past two years. Latino USA's Mandalit del Barco visited some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Los...