Saw this article re a drop in LA homicides, and wanted to mention it...

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-ga...tot-topstories

I thought about putting it under Law Enforcement, but the LAPD's work with gang intervention workers seems to have some parallels with some of the Brit tactics using defectors in Malaysia highlighted by LTC Nagl in "Learning to Eat Soup...". It's a limited analogy - the gang intervention workers seem to enforce distance between themselves and the LAPD. Interesting all the same.