National Evaluation of Weed and Seed

By Travis, Jeremy

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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, J. (n.d.). National Evaluation of Weed and Seed. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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Excerpt
Acknowledgements: This project could not have been accomplished without the gracious cooperation and participation of a number of individuals in Pittsburgh. Abt Associates would like to thank them for their significant contribution to this effort. Project Director Dave Farley, from the mayor?s office, was instrumental in providing insight, as well as facilitating site visits and access to key personnel in the Pittsburgh Weed and Seed movement. In addition, Project Coordinator John Tokarski was quite helpful in building our understanding of project operations and community dynamics. Further, we would like to acknowledge the cooperation and leadership of U. S. Attorney Fred Theiman in the Weed and Seed project. The Pittsburgh Police Department was also instrumental to our effort via their participation in interviews and ride alongs and the provision of data used in this report. In this regard, we would like to thank Chief MacNeely and Commander Baugner. We are indebted to these and other individuals at the Pittsburgh Weed and Seed site and hope they find this report useful. We would welcome the opportunity to work with them again in the future.

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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2 Target Area Characteristics and Nature of Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.3 Other Funding Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.0 Program Structure and Chronology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.1 Formal Organization and Structure for Weed and Seed Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.2 Proposed Goals and Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.3 Budget Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.4 Information Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4.5 Site Monitoring, Reporting, and Local Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5.0 Key Implementation Issues and Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5.1 Role of Grantee Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5.2 Management Structure and Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 5.3 Local Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 5.4 Approach to Weeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 5.5 Approach to Community Policing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 5.6 Approach to Seeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 5.7 Operational Relationships with Other Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 5.8 Concluding Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 6.0 Effects of Weed and Seed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 6.1 Analysis of Crime Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 6.2 Community Response and Perceptions of Public Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 7.0 Future Directions and Degree of Institutionalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52