"For a mother to lose her child from a violent death, it's another kind of cry," Angeleter Pringle said. "It's a cry that comes from so deep within, it's like someone's gutted you like a fish."  

More than most, the teachers and students at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience know the agony of Oakland's violent streets, which claimed 110 lives last year.  

In 2010, Oakland had more than 500 separate shootings -- more than one per day, every day, for weeks and months on end. Some involved so deeply in street life that experts say they have slipped into a kind of alternate reality in which the rules the rest of society lives by don't apply  

They call it "psychological first-aid" — triage for the emotional wounds inflicted by the violent death of a student, a friend, a relative, a classmate. In Oakland schools, it is needed all too often. Eight of the city's 2009 homicide victims were teenagers who were enrolled, or recently enrolled, in Oakland public schools.  

For years, federal monitors have been critical of Oakland Police Department officer involved shootings. Bay Area News Group Investigative Reporter Thomas Peele set out to uncover how many times the department had shot at people since the infamous Riders scandal broke in 2000. Peele found that the 2007 shooting death of 20-year-old Gary King Jr. epitomized many of the concerns and reports on the King case extensively. Join us for a conversation with Peele moderated by Martin G. Reynolds, senior editor for community engagement.