This summit is necessary to shape policy and help us. We need to know what you see and experience everyday in the community, in the schools and in your neighborhoods. This is a way to help us better coordinate city services.

Pedestrians should be aware they are more liable to be killed or injured, not motorists.

This summit is the culmination of that suggestion.

We have identified three organized gangs and four neighborhood crews operating within the city. For a lot of youth these gangs offer some type of structure to their lives. Gangs and crews provide a pseudo-family component.

Such an event would provide valuable experience and enable us to collect data that would help us do this on a larger scale, possibly next year. I would like to try and see if we can get it done this summer and then go for the bigger event next summer.

It was a good experience. We learned a lot as a basketball team. It's definitely going to help us.