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Several dozen law enforcement leaders have wrapped up a meeting at the state Capitol to work on fighting Florida�s growing gang problem.� Recent estimates peg the number of gangs in the state at around 1,500.� Attorney General Bill McCollum and Juvenile Justice Secretary Walter McNeil shared some of the recommendations.

�Many of these kids are saying to me, that�s why businesses are so important, that were there the availability of jobs, if we had a vocation, if we had some skills,” McNeil said.� “We could turn from gang activity to productive kinds of activities in our communities.�

McNeil and McCollum are calling on faith- and community based programs to help fill the parenting gaps with kids who have no parents or have a single parent and may be vulnerable to joining a gang.