Archive for the ‘Community Anticrime Programs’ Category
After Assaults Of Elderly Women, Detroit Citizen Crime Patrols Rise
Friday, August 20th, 2010FL Police Chief Decrees New Patrol Strategy: Talk To Citizens Daily
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010The Avant-Garde Look Of Los Angeles’ New District Police Stations
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010Some Pittsburgh Crime Rose After Antiviolence Project: Study
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010One of the Pittsburgh area’s foremost anti-violence projects has had no impact on homicide rates and, in fact, gun crimes and aggravated assaults increased in neighborhoods where the group focused its efforts, says a RAND Corp. study reported by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. RAND found that the efforts of the group, One Vision One Life, might also shift crime and violence from neighborhoods where the group operates to those where it does not. (more…)
D.A.R.E.: Popular Program, “Negligible” Results
Sunday, March 28th, 2010
A new paper by the Center for Court Innovation and sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics examines the nearly 30-year-old Drug Abuse Resistance Education program which is still used in 75 percent of American school districts, despite several studies showing that it has limited or no positive effect, and one 1998 study that found it actually increased teen drug use. In “Lesson From the Battle Over D.A.R.E,” the authors explore why various districts kept the program and found myriad reasons, including political influence and improved relationships with police.
Click here to read the paper.