National Evaluation of Weed and Seed

By Travis, Jeremy

Book Id: WPLBN0000660748
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Title:	National Evaluation of Weed and Seed
Author:	Travis, Jeremy
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Language:	English
Subject:	Law., Law & economy, Litigation and arbitration
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Publisher:	Department of Justice


Citation APA MLA Chicago Travis, B. J. (n.d.). National Evaluation of Weed and Seed. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Legal Reference Publication

Excerpt
Excerpt: Unveiled in 1991, Operation Weed and Seed represents an ambitious attempt to improve the quality of life in America?s cities. The ultimate goals of Weed and Seed are to control violent crime, drug trafficking, and drug-related crime in targeted high-crime neighborhoods and to provide a safe environment, free of crime and drug use, in which law-abiding citizens can live, work, and raise their families. Weed and Seed, administered by the Executive Office for Weed and Seed (EOWS), is grounded in the philosophy that targeted areas can best be improved by a two-pronged strategy of ?weeding? out violent offenders, drug traffickers, and other criminals by removing them from the targeted area and ?seeding? the area with human services and neighborhood revitalization efforts. Community policing is intended to serve as the ?bridge? between weeding and seeding. Three key objectives emphasize the government-community partnership spirit that is at the heart of Weed and Se.

Table of Contents
Contents Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2.0 Case Study Objective and Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3.0 Site History and Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.1 City Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.2 Target Area Characteristics and Nature of Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.3 Other Funding Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.0 Program Structure and Chronology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.1 Formal Organization and Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.2 Goals and Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.3 Budget Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.4 Information Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.5 Local Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5.0 Key Implementation Issues and Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5.1 Role of Grantee Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5.2 Management Structure and Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5.3 Local Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5.4 Approach to Weeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 5.5 Approach to Community Policing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 5.6 Approach to Seeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 5.7 Concluding Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 6.0 Effects of Weed and Seed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 6.1 Analysis of Crime Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 6.2 Survey of Community Residents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 6.3 Seeding Program Participant Interviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 7.0 Future Directions and Degree of Institutionalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50