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Save the Date
The 20th
National Conference on Preventing Crime in the Black Community will
be held June 1–4, 2005, in Tampa, FL. Many workshop sessions
will reflect the Weed and Seed model. Sites are encouraged
to use their training and travel funds to send a team. The
workshop will include a track for young people.
Is Cruising Hurting Your Community?
Cruising reviews
the factors that contribute to unnecessary repetitive driving.
The guide also identifies questions to ask when dealing with
a cruising problem, proposes numerous responses to the problem,
and identifies ways to measure the effectiveness of these
responses.
Drugs on the Street
Drug
Dealing in Open-Air Markets, a guide from the
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, describes
drug dealing in open-air markets and reviews the factors
that contribute to the problem. It then identifies a series
of questions to help analyze a local problem and reviews
responses.
Have COPS Grants Helped?
Funding
Community Policing to Reduce Crime: Have COPS Grants Made
a Difference From 1994 to 2000? examines how funding
from the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services between
1994 and 1999 affected violent and property crime rates in
the United States from 1995–2000.
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