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 A Policymaker’s Guide to Building Our Way Out of Crime: The Transformative Power of Police-Community Developer Partnerships describes and analyzes innovative efforts in communities across the United States to reduce crime in and improve the economic vitality of blighted neighborhoods.
By working together, local police, nonprofit community developers, elected and appointed officials, financial strategists, and community leaders can do more with less, converting crime hot spots that ruin entire neighborhoods and consume considerable police services into safety-generating community assets.
Case studies, photographs, charts, and lessons learned demonstrate the power these partnerships have for transforming troubled neighborhoods in cost-effective ways into stable, healthy, and sustainable communities.
The Focus of this Policymaker’s Guide and of the Book on which It Is Based
The material in this policymaker’s guide is drawn from a new book, Building Our Way Out of Crime: The Transformative Power of Police-Community Developer Partnerships, by the same authors, and addresses a range of topics that normally command the attention of policymakers—elected and appointed officials at all levels of government, community development leaders, financial industry investment strategists, private foundation executives, and others.
More specifically, it seeks to answer such questions as these:
«« Does this strategy w «« ork? Says who? What’s the evidence?
«« Is it feasible to implement in diverse cities?
«« What are the policy or political incentives and disincentives to adopting this strategy?
«« Do established experts in public safety, community development, and government circles believe this strategy represents a cost-effective, durable solution to neighborhood crime control and revitalization?
Those whom such policymakers may assign to probe the value and feasibility of investing in public safety-community development partnerships will find useful information in the entire book, which documents the following in much greater detail:
«« The crime-reduction and neighborhood revitalization results of three case studies.
«« How the community developers and their public safety and other collaborators achieved these results.
«« How to implement these community development-public safety partnerships and how to overcome implementation challenges.
«« Lessons learned.
«« Next steps in disseminating this successful strategy to cities that will find it helpful in turning around crime-ridden, disinvested neighborhoods.
The Foreword to the book may be of particular interest to policymakers and, therefore, it is included in this Guide.
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A Policymaker’s Guide to Building Our Way Out of Crime
The Transformative Power of Police-Community Developer Partnerships
Bill Geller | Lisa Belsky
Foreword by Bill Bratton and Paul Grogan
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
1100 Vermont Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530
Visit COPS Online at www.cops.usdoj.gov.
CONTENTS
Foreword 5
Why Should Police Embrace the Power of Community
Development? 12
The Policymaker’s Imperative: Foster Police-Community
Developer Collaboration 14
Building Away Crime Is Necessary But Not Sufficient to Create
Livable Neighborhoods 16
Evidence That Community Developer–Police Partnerships Have
Converted Crime Hot Spots into Safety-Generating Community
Assets 18
Brief Sketches of Pioneering Efforts 18
Seattle, Washington: Chinatown-International
District 18
Kansas City, Missouri: Swope Parkway-Elmwood
and Town Fork Creek Neighborhoods 18
St. Paul, Minnesota: Payne Avenue Commercial
District 20
New York City: East New York Neighborhood 20
Highlights of the Three Main Case Studies 22
Providence, Rhode Island: Olneyville Neighborhood—
Collaboration between the Olneyville Housing Corporation and the
Providence Police Department 22
Charlotte, North Carolina: Genesis Park and Druid Hills
Neighborhoods—Collaboration between The Housing Partnership
and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department 32
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Phillips Neighborhood Collaboration
between the Great Neighborhoods! Development Corporation and
the Minneapolis Police Department 47
How Police Fit into this Strategy 63
Sequencing of Safety and Development Interventions 64
The Type of Community Developers Involved in these Strategic
Partnerships 65
Grassroots Community Developers Are Not in the Business
of Gentrification 66
Policymakers Need to Help Police Leaders Differentiate
CDCs from Other Types of Important Community
Organizations 66
Some Ways Police Can Capture and Support the Power of
Community Development 67
Increasing the Amount of Police–Community Developer
Collaboration 69
Broadening the Impact and Opportunities to Hone the
Strategy 70
Policy Leadership in Institutionalizing Police-Community
Developer Collaboration 70
The Economic Environment—Still More Impetus for
Collaborative Action 76
A Final Note 77
Endnotes 78
References 80
About the Authors 85
Summary Contents of Building Our Way Out of Crime:
The Transformative Power of Police-Community Developer
Partnerships 87
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