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Crime Prevention Programs

Crime Prevention Programs. Danesha Diamond Public Issues Expo. Introduction.

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Crime Prevention Programs

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  1. Crime Prevention Programs Danesha Diamond Public Issues Expo

  2. Introduction • How much of the time are you afraid to walk out of your house because you know that there are gang bangers living next door? How about, how often are you afraid to go somewhere because the neighborhood I has a high crime rating? • If you answered yes to one or both of these questions, you have stopped at the right presentation. I am here today to talk to you about some crime prevention programs I have researched and one I have created myself.

  3. Research • I researched many different things about crime prevention in the U.S. One thing I researched was Ceasefire in Chicago. We have one here in our city also and it is very impressive, but the one in Chicago, I think is different than ours. That is because Ceasefire in Chicago has mediations among gang members who have had fights with other gangs so that there won’t be any hard feeling killings done afterwards. Ceasefire has had a 70% drop of killings since 2007, which I think is very good. Another great program I researched was Operation Safe Community in Memphis. What this program does is help at risk youth before they become another statistic of the justice system. This program is not many for the youth, but also for they gang bangers. The people in this organization want to go to the neighborhoods with the highest crime ratings and clean it up. Not just in the streets of these places but in the apartment complexes as well. The last program I researched was an expungent seminar for felons with major felons. What they did was expunge felonies off records so that the felons could get jobs that they couldn’t otherwise get with felonies.

  4. Collaboration • I emailed Ceasefire here in Cincinnati, Captain Paul Broxterman of District 2 and Captain David Bailey of District 5. Both the police chiefs thought my ideas were wonderful and they would like to put some of them in the non-violent youth programs that they have established. This gives me great joy to know that somebody else wants to stop violence as much as I do.

  5. My Plan • I like all three of the programs that I researched. There is not one specific program that I particularly like. There are bits and pieces of each program that I like and would like to put together to make one central program. • I came up with a program called CAVE, it stands for Cincinnatians Against Violence Everywhere.

  6. CAVE: Cincinnatians Against Violence Everywhere •  Our main focus will be with youth between the ages of 13 and 18 who have been disturbed by a violent crime in their life. We will also help repeat felons to help them get their lives back to a place that they are proud of, especially the ones who have children. We want our clients to feel like they can come to us for anything and to help them accomplish goals that they couldn’t otherwise with their violent background. The program will have simulations of different violent situations and the people it affects. We will have guest speakers come in whom have been involved in any kind of terrible violent situation. We want our clients to understand the seriousness of violent crimes in the community and the different ways it affects people as a whole. The people part of the program will be able to ask questions and interact with the guest that will come in and will be apart of the simulations. Nobody will be excluded from this and it will be a great experience for people of all ages, especially the younger people of the neighborhood. This will also be a non-profit organization and will gain money from fundraisers and donations from the people within the Greater Cincinnati area. I have based my program on that of Ceasefire Cincinnati and Operation: Safe Community in Memphis. I have taken a little of both programs and made it into one big program. It takes the stopping violence among the people from Ceasefire and the helping at risk youth from Memphis and put it together to help everybody at one time.

  7. CAVE. In depth • We will have weekly sessions at the Madisonville Rec Center on Friday’s from 6:30-8:00 pm. We will have counselors there for each session, but mainly one per session. If anybody at anytime during the session wants one on one time they can find another counselor that is not the head of the session. We want to make everybody feel comfortable enough to know that they can talk to anybody at anytime about anything.

  8. Funding for CAVE • I researched a grant called G.R.E.A.T. G.R.E.A.T. stands for Gang Resistance Education And Training, and it is a grant used to create crime prevention programs such as the one I have presented to you this morning. It has the main focus on youth to teach them about the cons of gang violence.

  9. Conclusion • Thank you for taking the time out to listen to my presentation. • Are there any questions??

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