BALTIMORE (WBFF) - What will it take to make Baltimore city safer?
 

Last week, President Biden unveiled a plan to help cities across the country that are struggling with crime.
 

Violence marred every day this weekend in the city.
 

From Friday night through early Sunday morning a total of six people -- including three teenagers - were shot.
 

One of the victims, a 23 year old man, was killed.
 

The weekend violence coming days after Mayor Brandon Scott met with the president as he unveiled a five point plan to fight rising crime across the country.
 

It includes giving money to cities to hire more officers, helping formerly incarcerated people reenter society, using resources to hold gun dealers accountable and focusing on violence intervention efforts, like Balitmore City's Safe Streets program.
 

"With the ARP (American Rescue Plan) money that has already come from the federal government, that’s going to be very, very helpful in reference to us stabilizing our youth programs," says state senator Cory McCray. "You see programs like Safe Streets over there in Cherry Hill which just celebrated not one murder throughout that whole year. So they were actually embracing that and lifting that up .We know that Safe Streets and ROCA is one of those productive things."
 

But critics, like Sean Kennedy with the Maryland Public Policy Institute, say the city can't focus on just one win.
 

"Unfortunately what the president rolled out, it makes sense in the way that he invited Mayer Scott, but it doesn’t make sense in policy or effectiveness terms," Kennedy says. "these programs if they do work, they only work in the long term. They do not stem the violence in the short term. Even in the case where we have semi-effective programs like Safe Streets, they are so limited in their geography. While you see fewer murders in Cherry Hill, we see more murders in west Baltimore. That’s not a solution. People are still dying all over the city."
 

One thing both sides agree on is Baltimore needs to do right now is engage young people over the summer, but that isn't all.
 

The issue of violent repeat offenders has to become a top priority. So is gaining cooperation from all city and state agencies.
 

"The state has also a large responsibility in this piece of it. Making sure that parole and probation, because we know some of the people that are doing the shooting or are getting shot currently serve on parole and probation. So we have to make sure the state resources are adequately available to support our city," McCray says.
 

For his part, McCray is publicly pledging to hold leaders of agencies like the Department of Public Safety accountable when it comes to how they hold repeat criminals accountable.
 

"We have to make sure the state resources are adequately available to support our city," he says.