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New Beginnings Church of Chicago Pastor Corey Brooks called for a three-step response to the violence in his city that took the lives of 13 people, including a one year-old child, last weekend.

First, his community needs to end its “no snitch” policy, Pastor Brooks said in a Monday interview with Fox & Friends First:

“Well, we’re definitely not doing enough. We have to take some responsibility ourselves. In our community, we have a ‘no snitch’ policy and we have to get rid of that policy – that’s the first thing.”

Next, citizens who know the streets and are able to discourage violence need to become more active, and more mentorship programs need to be immediately instituted, the pastor said:

“And, the second thing we have to do is get violence interrupters and violence intervention actively engaged in the lives of these young men and on the streets.