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NCJ Number:	153752

Title:	Field Office Guidance on Providing Assistance to Communities for Improving Public Safety in Inner City Neighborhoods

Corporate Author:	US Dept of Housing and Urban Development United States of America

Date Published:	1994

Page Count:	24

Sponsoring Agency:	National Institute of Justice/ Rockville, MD 20849 NCJRS Photocopy Services Rockville, MD 20849-6000 US Dept of Housing and Urban Development Washington, DC 20410

Sale Source:	US Dept of Housing and Urban Development 451 Seventh Street, SW Room 4116 Washington, DC 20410 United States of America National Institute of Justice/ NCJRS paper reproduction Box 6000, Dept F Rockville, MD 20849 United States of America NCJRS Photocopy Services Box 6000 Rockville, MD 20849-6000 United States of America

Document:	PDF

Type:	Survey

Language:	English

Country:	United States of America

Annotation:	These guidelines are intended to provide information and guidance on ways to create public safety action plans in distressed inner-city neighborhoods using Community Development Block Grant and HOME funds.

Abstract:	Possible programs include police officer homeownership, drug and crime prevention activities by nonprofit organizations, community policing, antigang programs, youth programs, and other initiatives. Possible drug and crime prevention activities include public facilities and improvements for the addition of strategically placed street lighting; the alteration of traffic flow and street restrictions; and the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, and reconstruction of a police substation; the demolition and removal of abandoned buildings used as crack houses; and the establishment of neighborhood watch programs. Other possibilities include extra police patrols and gang control. Further guidelines, attached case studies, list of potential funding sources, and results of a survey on police homeowner loan programs

Main Term(s):	Crime prevention planning

Index Term(s):	Federal aid; Police crime-prevention; Policing innovation; Urban policing



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