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Philadelphia police, along with community and church leaders, kick-off a new effort to get guns off the streets.

A new effort to get guns off the streets and keep residents up-to-date on crime in their neighborhoods.

Community and church leaders are urging residents to turn in their guns in the Mantua section, an effort that got 280 guns off the streets in one day last year.

The Philadelphia Police Department Friday launched a new online program that lets you find out about what crimes are occurring in your neighborhood.

When it comes to getting guns off the streets, Philadelphia police will take all the help they can get.

"We had a buy-back program last year where we got over 200 guns back," said Capt. Chris Coulter of the 16th Police District.

Community and church groups in Mantua are stepping up with another new program that lets residents turn in their guns anonymously.

"We're asking everyone who has a gun in their house to bring it in," said Pastor Dolores McCabe of Millcreek Baptist Church

Gun buy-back programs like this have taken 2,000 weapons off the streets in the past two years. Add that to 5,400 guns seized by police last year and most believe violent crime will go down.

"It's very hard to measure the success of what they prevented but we certainly know that that was several hundred guns that were never used in a crime, that they were taken off the streets," said Capt. Coulter.

Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) disputed claims that gun buy-backs don't get guns used in crimes off the streets.

"A gun in a home that's burglarized ends up being a gun used to rob one of these stores right here on Lancaster Avenue," said Representative Fattah.

Anyone who turns in a gun will get a $50 gift card. The gun will be turned over to police and destroyed.

Also Friday, police launched a new online crime map link that lets residents see what crimes occurred in their neighborhood, as far back as a month ago.

LINK: Crime Map for My Philadelphia Neighborhood

"It gives the public a sense of what's happening and if someone has information on what's occurring in their community, they can give us a call," said Lt. Frank Vanore of Philadelphia Police.

Police hope this will lead to more arrests. Now they're trying to give everyone access to the website.

"We're meeting with our community groups and our clergy to make sure people who don't have internet access have a way to get it somewhere," said Lt. Vanore.

The gun buy-back program begins next Friday night and runs through Saturday at the Mill Creek Baptist Church at Preston and Lancaster Avenue.