At about 10 a.m. Aaron Foster heads to Ivy and Lorena streets in southwest Fresno. In his pickup truck, he goes around neighborhoods in this area every day, or what he calls “hitting the loop.” “This is just the hood, we call it the block,” he said. “Every neighborhood got a block. This is the southwest Fresno that no one sees. The poverty is obvious.” He does this to “sustain the peace” and to prevent shootings from happening. “The devil don’t take no days off and we can’t either,” the anti-gun violence advocate said. “I get up in the morning, I come and check the blocks. We go around and check the temperature. What’s going on?” If a street is quiet that’s a sign tension is brewing, Foster said. He asks around to see if anyone was beefing the night before because fights can turn into murder, he said. He also monitors social media posts to see if there are any threats of violence. “But we get in front of the tension, just loosen it up a little, then we can coexist,” Foster said. Foster
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