In Baltimore, changing minds, and saving lives
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- In Baltimore, where gun violence claims the lives of hundreds each year, what is missing from so many young men is a solid foundation. The youth workers behind a program called Roca (Spanish for rock) aim to provide that grounding, by teaching alternative ways to handling the stresses of life in a challenging environment. As one Roca participant, a former drug dealer, tells "Sunday Morning" senior contributor Ted Koppel, "I came a long way, from nothing to something now."
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Props to the men working in the trenches with the boys. Behavior change is challenging. Keep up the good work men. You all are in our prayers.
We need more programs like this nationwide and more news stories highlighting them. Very inspiring!
Speak for yourself
Finally CBS! These are the kinds of stories you do best! See..you can still bring us what we love you for This is the best story you have done in years! It's about hope..and changing our thoughts that lead to violence..because an angry person without out a gun us still an angry person! The efforts being made here by these men IS WHAT IT IS GOING TO TAKE TO END ALL THE VIOLENCE! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
Exactly… “changing minds” to be resilient, virtuous, and of good character is the solution to the root cause of violence, destruction and poverty. Changing or removing constitutional protections on the human right to tools of self defense is a red herring… down a very dangerous path!
Hope is not a plan
I love stories like this. Chicago had a very similar program and it good to hear good things going on in communities that has been under served.
Chicongo
@First Last why are you commenting negatively on everything? Grow up.
Resources, resources, resources. The more our politics can support policy that funnels $ for programs that provide education and options with opportunity you see any community thrive. Bravo Roca! Thanks Mr. Koppel for shedding a light on the whole spectrum.
Resources are at the job if you are able bodied
Baltimore is one of my favourite cities. I am thrilled to see programs like this and intend on donating to this cause.
The last time I visited Baltimore I had to leave because I didn't feel safe. I want to visit again so I can spend my money in the shops and restaurants.
As long as you are aware and know specific areas to go to, you will be fine. It probably would be better to travel with a local. It’s like going anywhere, try not to stand out and just blend in, walk confidently. Don’t think fearfully. Canton, Fells, Fed Hill, Inner Harbor, Harbor East, Locust Point, areas near large parks are all generally very safe.
- a local Baltimorean who was born and raised here.
Dangerous freedumbs
I applaud this effort! ❤️❤️❤️
As a Social Psychologist with over 20 years of nonprofit experience I think ROCA seems to be going impressive work rooted on best practices. Keep up the good work!
All these lives are worth saving all these lives deserve a positive intervention this is how you change a community they all need positive living skills and a safe place to live and breathe and be human. They need positive community deeds to be delivered by the people who live in that community and care about the community outside forces who care about the community as well
You get what you vote for
Love it...we need this everywhere.
Speak for yourself
@@firstlast8258 Because ?
This is wonderful! Thank you, ROCA, for what you do and, CBS, for bringing this program on your platform. It's important for people to know about so we can support these programs and share in the hope they provide. They deserve to be supported, and those they serve truly need it.
I couldn't have said it better 👏
Speak for yourself
A very good and positive story on a very complicated issue
Incredible story! So inspiring to see this. Real solutions for real problems. More of this, please.
You get what you vote for
I’ve seen the brand name Roca, but had no idea this is what it was about. This is amazing! Thank you CBS for this coverage and giving it due bandwidth. This segment was at least 7 minutes, not 70 seconds like other news shows would limit.
Over 12 minutes. Worth it!
Thanks, Ted, for telling a story that needs to be told!!!
This week was a great week of inspirational CBS Sunday Morning stories. Thanks for sharing some hope with your viewers.
Hope is not a plan
This ROCA program is impressive. The goal: to work directly with people to slowly evolve away from gun violence in thier lives. My Best Wishes for continued success: one Valuable life at a time. Together.
This was really emotional to watch as a mom I just want to hold all of them tight and give them security and tell them to not lose hope! I’m glad there’s a organization out there to help and support these young people! Keep up the great work Roca. May God the almighty watch over them and keep them all safe and health and give them the strength to pushing through life’s many tests and trials.
Hope is not a plan
This touched me deeply.
This is great to hear. I live less than 10 miles south of baltimore and will only go to the city to see Orioles or Ravens game or go to the theater. I will look into how i can help this group.
You get what you vote for
I'm protected by my relationships.
God bless these men for what they do. They have a battle they are willing to fight.✌🏽🤟🏽🙏🏽
Gawd bless Murica
I downloaded the CBS app. Really good decision. Saw this wonderful piece on my down time. Brought tears to my eyes. Praying for each and everyone involved. 🙏
Thoughts and prayers
A 25 year old with a child that's 11. Wow! Glad his life seems on the up and up.
Lack of LOVE in their families. "Hurt people, hurt people."
Lack of tough love
Very important work. Many blessings to the Roca team.
Jalil, so many people are pulling for you!!!!!!! Keep it going. You are strong and able!
Kudos to the work of ROCA. Every intervention is much needed.
I love Roca! I've been donating to them ever since I first watched this video. Their work is brilliant, culturally spot on, an effective. I can't think of a community more deserving of love and care. It gives me hope to see this kind of compassion and intelligence on the community level, been on the national political level we are bombarded with hate and ugliness.
The best 13 minutes I used in my life. I really enjoyed watching this.
Thanks ROCA❤🙏
All the best to the ROCA organization and its participants and participants to come. Good work.
'When to be outside, when not' is my mantra. I love Baltimore, the community is amazing, and I feel accepted and embraced. We need more programs like this and more investment in the community. Once you invest in the community, they DELIVER!
Sadly, The Wire was NOT tv fantasy. More programs like this are needed to help.
Happy Sunday funday good morning 🌄🌄 awesome show.
Hopefully this program will be the change these young men need. The thing we constantly see though is a lack of a solid two parent family foundation.
Hope is not a plan
I recognized Ted's voice. Tough story.
A good program and I hope continued success! 👍
Hope is not a plan
Peace be with those who read and listen to these stories about gun violence, or any sort of violence happening anywhere in this country.
❤️🕊️💯
If you are praying for peace then prepare for war
Get the guns OFF of our streets! God bless these people who are saving valuable lives. This is a national problem! Other countries have made guns illegal, so, there is no reasonable excuse that we can’t do the same. Make guns illegal!!! Cherish lives, which cannot be replaced!
I taught in Baltimore for over twenty years and all of my former students & their families are in my daily prayers. May God keep them and everyone safe, healthy, & happy. May they always make good decisions throughout their precious lives. Much love to all. Thanks for sharing this life saving message.
You taught in Baltimore? - you are the problem lady. "More than 75% test at elementary level in math and reading at Baltimore City High School. "
Brian, I taught in a small private elementary school in the 1980’s and 90’s. Most of my students tested well above grade level at that time. Teachers teach according to a curriculum guide. If your statistics are correct, the curriculum should be improved. Most teachers are certainly not there to make a lot of money and do care about the children.
"guns" are not the problem. The mindset of these young men is the problem. I've been black all my life. I had a strong father figure, uncles, older cousins, who taught me how to resolve conflict without resorting to using a weapon. If you could magically wisk away every firearm on the planet, but not fix the mindset problem, they'd still use the most deadly tool around to resolve conflicts.
The problem is twofold… the mentally disturbed and the availability of guns. Yes, anyone who takes the life of another person is mentally disturbed.
If I had a business, I would hire some of these young men.
Excellent work!
Gives me hope! Wonderful program saving lives of these beautiful young men.
Hope is not a plan
Thank you, and God Bless ROCA 🙏🙏🙏🙋🏼♀️❤️☀️
Incredible!
The city needs to invest in the ROCA program aka intensive supervision and monitoring program.
Excellent reporting!!!!!
May God continue to inspire this movement to help curb the senseless killings.
Gawd bless Murica
Thank y’all for your work. Oh, our poor twisted country, a perfect storm, everyday for this violence.
Gawd bless Murica
Such a critically important program.
Silence the violence and increase the peace. I admire the efforts of the people who are trying to do this.
If you are praying for peace then prepare for war
Beautiful
THANKS FOR BELIEVING IN OUR SONS, AND FOR STICKING WITH THEM, THROUGH THICK AND TIN!!
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I hope the find more support from different communities. I will support them very soon. Thank you for this video.
Hope is not a plan
ONLY once you understand the issue is not the “gun” but the “violence”, can you prevent the killing.
Bmore stand up! Beautiful story! Congrats to the young men!
We have to become the change we want to see. Unite in the light or perish to the darkness
Speak for yourself
@@firstlast8258 It’s a team effort
They must really respect that police officer for her to be able to live in Baltimore for that long.
I can’t help but think of Clayton Bigsby! 😂😂😂
Seriously I’m praying for all my brothas & sistas across this country, & the world abroad. 🙏🏿
love you, Snacks
Vital program giving hope - nice report!
Hope is not a plan
@@firstlast8258 all right sensei
Young brothers have become an endangered species. And I am a 74 year old Caucasian woman, an ex teacher. I despair for our young people, but especially men of color, who will have their lives cut short by gun violence. Before they can reach their potential, go to college, make a life, have their own families. Make a mark in the world. They will instead be a statistic, and wind up in the morgue. It boggles your mind and breaks your heart.
This is a great eye opening segment of an ongoing crime ridden issue in Baltimore. Just be The Wire stop film doesn’t mean the violence stopped.
Sounds like we need to have this program in every jail in the country we should make it mandatory that these young people follow their lead sure beats what the government is doing for them
Put yourself in jail first
We need Goldie Hawn’s Mindup foundation in all elementary schools across America!
Speak for yourself
APPROVED 😊
This needs to be a nationwide federally funded program. There are so many young men of color that need to know they have people on their side and who care for them.
Albuquerque clears 300 by October.
This happens in just about every urban city in America 😢 It takes all of us to help each other succeed in life going across color lines ❤
Baltimore one of the great hellholes. Went looking for Edgar Allen Pies house. Forget it!
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"You have to keep you head on a swivel"
And it's exhausting. All. The. Time.
Can you bring that to Atlanta?💯💯💯💯6
Atlanta Georgia 🏥 needs Hogar CREA 🇩🇴🇵🇷🇺🇸
@@mr.regenold6572 Yes!!!!!!!!
You get what you vote for
@@FirstLast-db1uf What does that mean?
@@user-if4df7lk1z it means what I said
I am less depressed than usual.
So sad to see all those ribbons. Sympathy to the families. Such a loss to the community.
Not really
This how you fix black communities in distress . Not more policing. The police do not need more money. This kind of treatment resource needs more money. Think before you do was taught to me as long as I can remember by my family.
Don’t worry in ten years there will be no more police in Baltimore. Then the real fun will start.
Family is something we all need. If it isn't at home, you make a family with others. I'm glad this program is there to help provide that for these young people.
@@tommyholmes1931 You say that like that is a terrible thing!!! Keep this program up and they will be the new police. There will also be a reduction in crime, police brutality, crooked cops, bloated police budget, law suits the city has to pay, less black men incarcerated, stock prices for for-profit prisons will drop, the black community will finally have police they can trust, there will be good relations between the community and cops, etc. AND THE BEST THING ISSSSSS: PEOPLE LIKE WILL BE LONG GONE FROM BALTIMORE.
@@user-if4df7lk1z there won’t be any police. The city is run by all black people from the mayor to the commissioner and even city council members. The majority of the police dept is minority. The State Attorney was a black female. Zero yes Zero percent of 23 schools, had not one kid proficient in math or reading. The city was given 60 million for schools several years ago and no one knows where it went and the city refuses to audit themselves. The black female states attorney is going to jail. Even her lawyers quit on her. The city is down 600-700 officers and crime is going up everyday. You know why since Freddy Gray riots there haven’t been another riot, because there’s nothing to burn. You are a delusional person who lives in fairy land. Police aren’t coming back and these ideas just safe streets is just another program that will fail. Oh did you know the person who started safe streets was murdered and it wasn’t by the police. You are fed lies and to that I say as long as they keep their crap in Bulletmore, who cares.
Money is at the job if you are able bodied
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Yes, access to guns is prevalent and dominant in the city. Why should you have to be on a swivel to survive.
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Is Roca funded? If so by whom? Investors?
I miss Ted Copel
Anything is worth a shot. Don't assume that these kids are not smart. They are! The violence is a result of rage.
Great strides in just one of our Social ills. 85%!!!!, great program.
The numbers don’t lie but liars use numbers
Weird that the beginning and the end of this video highlighted gun violence, but the Roca program focuses on behavior, which is the key. 'Snacks' listed more than one issue that caused death in his neighborhood (drug overdose, jail, prison, suicide). I'm confused as to the point CBS was trying to make.
Drugs are bad mkay
Baltimore school student can't read or do math. So many cities and schools in America.
It's partly the "no child left behind" idea at work, and that teachers aren't paid well or able to be fired if they suck. It's unconscionable.
Stop & Frisk worked in NYC. Sorry...but it's needed across the entire US.
"It's called 'CBT'... thought this was going to take a very different direction.
Therapy and medication doesn’t work for everyone
How do we not acknowledge there is a cultural problem? History repeats itself in the families of these communities and we just throw money at it, hoping something changes.
It's not cultural. It's mindset. No "culture" inherently resorts to violence. Any of these young men raised with a different mindset would make different decisions. Programs like ROCA are changing that mindset and teaching them a better way.
@@kevinm.8682 Call it what you will. A cycle of absent fathers and victim mentality results in a cultural dysfunction. Yes, I'm sure this is a great program. But no one wants to deal with root causes.
Speak for yourself and hope is not a plan
@@firstlast8258 Who else am I speaking for
@@ProfessionalDad not yourself
Holy smokes! All those purple ribbons were black young boys and men?
prayers for maryland 🐢
Thoughts and prayers
Initially I was gonna start off this comment by asking, how is it that so many immigrants, documented and undocumented come to this country with little or nothing and make use of the privilege to be here and just be able to work? But thats not the right question, those immigrants like myself had a solid foundation instilled by parents that cared about our well being. Those spankings and rebukes #discipline I got from my mother and father were not acts of abuse, but instilling basic fundamentals of right and wrong and consequences for your actions. Other methods of discipline are applied through different families, so its not one size fits all approach. But the key to making better people is that your parents need to be in your life. Now, honestly, that guy with 5 kids, I wish him all the best, but I hope this is not history repeating itself. Its sad though, through the eyes of an immigrant how so much opportunities are thrown away.
They need to reform our criminal justice system in the jails to hold these kids accountable when they're young make sure they don't get out until they have their life together jail needs to be more than a punishment these boys need a direction in life and shown how to make it happen and they don't get out until they do people should want to hire people that come out of the system that's the way we need to make it change for the better
Put yourself in jail first
Doesn't work.
Father Figures Matter
You know they'll never bring that back in style!!🤣🤣
@@sorongana5346 never say never
Dad bod
In this case it's true, most of us Americans, especially we blacks won't bring that back in style willingly at least, maybe under the force of crises yes but not willingly.
Yeah this "program" will work for sure.
Dont be a criminal.
Politicians?
I have always believed in gun control, especially after I took riflery. The teacher was a nut.
Thank God my husband doesn't carry one of our guns.
Gawd bless Murica
"Lack of resources, opportunities"? Really? Always someone else's fault, and not the perpetrators. Perhaps a lack of supervision from parents, lack of discipline from parents, a lack of "wanting" to make something of themselves.
Can't legislate any of that. Do you want to mandate parents supervise their kids despite having 1 or 2 jobs? Would you like to mandate how parents discipline their children to your own liking? Or would you like to fund non-regressive social programs to actually address the issue instead of moralizing about it?
How about Home Life? How about Father's? How about Parenting? How about Soft-On-Crime policies that keep streets dangerous?
Guns aren't violent until the criminal pulls the trigger.
Agreed. Poor does not equal violent. It's the culture that has been built that leads to violence. At least someone is trying to put things in the right direction.
Stop making sense.
@@kwebster62 Agreed.
How are you going to mandate or change any of those issues? Your way is regressive and has 0 actual scientific evidence to back up any of your strategies. You want to punish not rehabilitate. You want to moralize not actually do anything helpful and kind. I don't want my time to be wasted by a c- high school graduate looking to exercise their limited power to frisk me because of my race. Because how else do cops identify these so-called criminals other than the way they've always used?
Perhaps you missed the point of ROCA? They are trying to address the issues of Home Life, Fathers and Parenting. Those pillars of the community need to be restored, and they're starting with this group. Ideally the graduates will teach their children, who will teach their children, and pretty soon the mindset of the entire community has been restored to what is should have been all along.