With 26 teenagers murdered in London last year and 13 young lives lost already through stabbings and shootings this year, this is no small task.
However Lewis, who was the new Mayor of London Boris Johnson's first appointment, is not afraid to take on the challenge. One way in which he hopes to make a difference is by appointing a person in command of fighting the capital's gangs problem.
"I would like to see a gangs tsar who would be able to work with all the issues, such as policing, and look at how community initiatives can transform gang crime. Dealing with the problem of gang crime is very much at the top of my list," he says.
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