NCJ Number
230366
Date Published
2010
Length
10 pages
Annotation
This series of case studies of task forces for Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) - which used Federal, State, and local criminal justice resources to address gun crimes - focuses on those PSN sites that followed the strategic problems olving model, implementing multiple interventions in targeted cities or geographic areas of cities.
Abstract
Impact analyses across the jurisdictions studied showed promising results from the strategic problem solving model. Every city studied experienced a decline in gun crime. PSN task forces in all of the sites attempted to build community partnerships and implement a communication strategy. Several of the sites collaborated with their Weed and Seed programs as well as with the schools. All included multiple local, State, and Federal criminal justice partners. All included media campaigns that involved public service announcements and billboards, as well as several strategies that involved posters in the jail and on buses and bus benches. Some sites conducted a series of offender notification meetings that delivered a deterrence and social support message to at-risk populations of probationers and parolees. The case studies involved Omaha in the Federal judicial district of Nebraska, five cities in the Middle District of North Carolina, St. Louis in the Eastern District of Missouri, and Lowell in the District of Massachusetts. In this chapter, the districts and cities are described, key elements of the PSN intervention are reviewed, and evidence regarding the impact of the intervention is presented. 5 tables and 5 notes