CCDO's In-Sites Magazine - Summer 2005 issue

Photos representing weeding and seeding efforts such as police officers on bicycles, building construction, brick row house facade displaying several flags.

Winter 2004 issue of In-Sites magazine, published by the Community Capacity Development Office (formerly Weed & Seed Office), Office Justice Programs (OJP)

This Issue Welcome to the summer 2005 edition of In-Sites, where CCDO gives you quick and easy access to important information from the field. This issue includes stories about the success of community prosecution in Dallas, using a Cherokee marbles game to teach about methamphetamine, and serving warrants to gang members to keep them out of neighborhoods. More articles are highlighted below; find others by clicking on the section links on the left.
Features
Asset Forfeiture Takes a Front Seat in Philly With the area’s dilapidated houses making it easier for drug dealers to make their living, the district attorney’s office decided to put a new twist on an old idea. In the past, real property asset forfeiture had only been used when the property had value; now, it is being used to aid law enforcement.	Affordable Housing Group and Police Band Together HomeSight, an affordable housing development corporation in Seattle, had always focused on increasing home ownership to stabilize poor, crime-ridden neighborhoods. When gang members threatened a new resident in Columbia City, the organization realized it needed a new approach.
School Program Helps Kids Stay Out of Prison Nancy Jahns reasoned that if cognitive behavioral programming used in prisons was reducing recidivism, a similar curriculum for schools could reduce truancy and other problems and ultimately help prevent youth from entering the corrections system.	Concentrating on Reentry Yields Results The Fort Wayne, IN, Weed and Seed effort has become a model for a “special emphasis” site; that is, a site that applies the Weed and Seed approach to focus on one issue or population and reduce crime in a specific high-crime area. For Fort Wayne, that meant exploring its reentry problems.