Article: DARING KIDS TO BE DIFFERENT : POLICE PUT POSITIVE SPIN ON PARK PARTHENIA `GANG'.(NEWS)

Byline: Marni McEntee Daily News Staff Writer

Inside a stiflingly hot, vacant apartment at the Park Parthenia complex, 40 children have relinquished an hour of daylight.

It's not an hour for horseplay and lazing about. It's a 60-minute gang initiation. But this isn't a ``gang'' in the usual sense of the word - it's a group of kids dedicated to cleaning up their neighborhood.

Los Angeles police Officer Sally Barnes stands before the kids of this crime-plagued neighborhood with one message: ``If you want to join a gang, come join our gang.''

The message is the cornerstone of the Junior Neighborhood Watch program, started five years ago ...

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