DaQuawn Bruce, the Executive Director of Concerned Communities for America, joins the show to discuss crime and its impact on the black community. He stresses the importance of economic empowerment, public safety, free and fair elections, and quality education in creating positive change.  DaQuawn led grassroots efforts mobilizing youth for congressional races throughout the country and has worked with US Senator Tim Scott, and the House Select Committee on Modernization of Congress.  In addition to being a scholar, earning a master's degree in design and innovation, DaQuawn frequently is featured on national media outlets, including Fox News, News Nation, Newsweek, and USA Today.  He is from Chicago and grew up in some of the worst neighborhoods where it was very common to hear about people getting shot. Despite this, he worked hard and made something of himself.  DaQuawn grew up on the south side of Chicago, in a neighborhood that was plagued by violence. Despite this, he never felt like it could happen to him. In 2018, he was shot in front of his house, and his cousin was killed three months later. DaQuawn is now dedicated to preventing violence in Chicago.  Criminal justice reform is a movement that is designed to improve the criminal justice system in America. The goal is to make the system more fair and to reduce crime. However, many people believe that the reform efforts should focus on the source of crime, rather than on the end result of it. This means that instead of working to change the way that prisons operate, for example, they should focus on changing the way that police operate in order to prevent crime from happening in the first place. So a lot of the work that we're doing, we're highlighting narratives of individuals who are either in the community doing the work to solve these issues as it relates to economic empowerment and development of minority communities, as it relates to education and promoting quality and value education and school choice reducing crime and violence in our communities and then promoting the values of faith and family. DaQuawn states that time and time again the rhetoric was perpetuated by BLM and the postures that have been adopted by prosecutors and by judges of being soft on crime as a means of criminal justice reform having disastrous consequences, especially in the black and brown communities across the country.