The issue covers crime prevention efforts in Tucson, Arizona, where crime data indicate a 22-percent decline in homicides, a 27-percent decline in rapes, and a 37-percent decline in robberies between 1997 and 1998. In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Weed and Seed efforts have targeted drug law enforcement and a cocaine distribution ring and crime control in a public housing development. Other articles in the issue deal with the following topics: (1) DEFY Train the Trainer program that aims to reduce the risks of adolescent drug abuse, school failure, delinquency, and violence; (2) a youth gang initiative grant received by the Maywood/Bellwood, Illinois, Weed and Seed site; (3) a program in Wheeling, West Virginia, to clean up the streets; (4) high school student involvement in the Civil Air Patrol in Austin, Illinois; and (5) television programming and conferences dealing with Weed and Seed programs and activities. 11 photographs