Streets, Beatz & Peace

A Day in the Life of Chicago’s Street Outreach Workers

Billy "Bo" Deal & Rodney "Hot Rod" Phillips Season 1 Episode 2

We're back with the second episode of Streets, Beatz & Peace: a podcast on gun violence prevention efforts in Chicago. 

Watch hosts Billy "Bo" Deal and Rodney "Hot Rod" Phillips, and guests Nyedra "Nyke" Turner and James "Lil James" Mitchell as they continue to explore the evolution of street outreach and community violence intervention (CVI) to bring down gun violence in Chicago streets.

Special thanks to:

  • Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP) Chicago
  • Sam Brandstrader, SWOP
  • Fred Brandstrader

Brought to you by the Metropolitan Peace Initiatives (MPI), a division of Metropolitan Family Services which coordinates, supports and sustains a coalition of 13 community organizations, known as Communities Partnering 4 Peace (CP4P), focused on reducing gun violence across 27 Chicago neighborhoods.

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