CCDO's In-Sites Magazine - Winter 2005 issue

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

coming Soon New Weed and Seed Guidelines

Winter 2005 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 winter 2005 edition of In-Sites, where CCDO gives you quick and easy access to important information from the field. This issue includes stories about using volunteers to go door to door to get residents’ feedback on crime, partnering with AmeriCorps to jumpstart a reentry initiative, and assisting Alaska Native ex-offenders by using local resources. More articles are highlighted below; find others by clicking on the section links on the left.
Features
Site “EXILES” Gun Crime When a small city has a big crime problem, it needs to be fixed right away; in Salisbury, MD, community members promptly responded to their gun crime problem. Residents claim that Wicomico EXILE—a countywide initiative designed to reduce the high level of gun crime—has made their neighborhood a lot quieter.	Public Housing Now Safer in Kansas City In Kansas City, MO, public housing units are becoming safer places to live thanks to the Public Housing Safety Initiative, a federal program that assists in the investigation, prosecution, and prevention of violent crimes and drug offenses in public, federally assisted, and Indian housing areas.
Police Academy Helps Kids See the Blue Side of Things In Springfield, IL, nearly 200 kids enrolled in the Junior Police Academy. Children saw what police work is really about, from demonstrations of K–9 units to discussions about computer crime to simulated traffic stops using golf carts.	Neighborhood Restoration, One Porch at a Time Hundreds of teenagers from 10 different states descended on the city of Bristol, TN, last summer and went to work on houses throughout the Weed and Seed neighborhood. They made minor repairs, built wheelchair ramps, spruced up porches, and tiled and laid flooring.