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City of Seattle Comprehensive Communities Program End of Grant Report, October, 1998

NCJ Number
178071
Date Published
1998
Length
10 pages
Annotation
This final grant report of Seattle's Comprehensive Communities Program (CCP) indicates that CCP has enabled Seattle to customize a broad-based strategy for addressing violence and implementing community policing citywide.
Abstract
At the close of the CCP grant, many CCP programs have been sustained; community policing is continuing to be implemented in the Seattle Police Department and the city's neighborhoods; and many Seattle departments and agencies are working together on crime-related problems through comprehensive approaches. Safe Futures grant funding from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has fueled the development of a comprehensive strategy for juvenile justice in Seattle/King County. The HUD Safe Neighborhoods program is bringing community policing to drug-affected low-income housing downtown. Seattle's Weed and Seed strategy, along with all of its collaborations, are being expanded into the South Precinct; and a proposal to expand citywide is under development. Seattle's City Attorney is reorganizing to support community prosecution; and the City Attorney, Municipal Court, and Police Department are collaborating on problem-solving as never before, including an information technology integration plan. The State Department of Corrections has launched a Neighborhood Corrections Initiative pilot project in collaboration with the Police Department to provide swift and certain sanctions to repeat felony offenders who use downtown Seattle as their meeting ground. A grant from the COPS Office is funding continuing efforts to restructure the Police Department to support community policing and problem-solving, as well as facilitate communications and information-sharing with other police departments around the country.