Policy Evaluation And Feedback

In low income areas and large cities, gang violence is a major problem. Gang violence in Chicago is reaching alarming proportions. Day by day they are increasing rapidly. None of the solutions work effectively to eliminate gangs. However police departments and other government officials are trying their best to provide the same security as other areas in chicago. Thousands of innocent people are dying each year from these ill mannered thugs. In today’s societies gang activity is everywhere, whether it includes violence, drugs, death or any illegal activity. There are several aspects which are causing these violent activities. In past years the police department and the mayor designed different strategies to stop this violence. From my perspective better education and scholarships are the only way to reduce gangs and other illegal activities.

Before I get into the strategies put in place to reduce gun violence, I want to touch on the things that contribute to gun violence in New Haven. According to the “Selected Strategies for Community Gun Violence Prevention” report, violent crimes contribute to and are exacerbated by economic disadvantage (City-Wide). The main area in New Haven where gun violence occurs is in areas of low-income and poverty and the gun violence are being executed by the youth ages 15-24. In this day and age, we are living in a society where your income level determines your life expectancy, whether it is homicide, suicide or another form of violent activity. Living in New Haven and experiencing this first hand, I was able to see how the power and the struggle of poverty, low-income, gang wars and even drug activity can exacerbate gun violence. New Haven has as many as 2,500 people who are in gangs. These gangs lie in six neighborhoods in New Haven. The gangs being, The Ville, The Tre, The Tribe, The Jungle, The Island and The Hill hold responsibility

Operation Ceasefire is a problem-oriented policing intervention aimed at reducing youth homicide and youth firearms violence in Boston. Project design began in 1995 and it was implemented in 1996. It is based on the “pulling levers” deterrence strategy that focuses criminal justice attention on a small number of chronically offending gang-involved youth responsible for much of Boston’s youth homicide problem. This paper will explore the problem Operation Ceasefire is trying to solve and examine the effectiveness of its implementation through the assessment of the 7 stages of the model.

According to the Toronto police, an Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy was a necessary investment in wake of increasing gun violence among poor (primarily black) youth in the city of Toronto, which peaked to its ultimate high in the year 2005 known as the ‘year of the gun’. A media spectacle of the Toronto’s gang violence primarily involving young black men from poor inner suburban

The streets of Philadelphia are rapidly becoming a home to violent acts and random homicides. Innocent lives are taken every day due to the strong presence of gangs, and the streets are run by unruly groups of fearless young adults. Gang violence in Philadelphia is a major issue, and the citizens will never be safe until gang prevention occurs. Gang prevention is not a simple task, but with the right resources available, it is possible. Gang violence is a problem that will contribute to the collapse of Philadelphia, and it has yet to be solved throughout many generations. With gang violence on the rise, the best solution to gang violence is to educate the youth and parents about gangs and use family support to prevent the creation of gang

The Frontline documentary, “The Interrupters”, captures the heroic services that one organization, Ceasefire, provides in assisting individuals involved in inner city violence. Through mentorship and modeling, experienced “violence interrupters” are able to mediate and prevent violence from occurring within at risk communities. The documentary demonstrated the problems orbiting around inner city violence, prominently homicide. Furthermore, the film portrayed an effective solution to curbing the violence by implementing programs such as Ceasefire. The Interrupters encapsulated many essential ideas around inner city violence, such as its importance to social work, its application to theoretical perspectives, and solutions to resolving violence around the world.

Acts of violence are no stranger to the Greater Chicago Area. In 2016 alone, Chicago had suffered 786 homicides (“Crime in Chicagoland,” n.d.). Although this number is large, especially when compared to other major cities in the United States, it fails to depict the countless family members, friends, and communities who carry the burden of these senseless killings. BUILD (Broader Urban Involvement & Leadership Development), an anti-violence organization serving Chicago neighborhoods since 1969, engages at-risk children in productive activities within their community in order to keep them out of trouble from the streets of Chicago. BUILD recognizes the debilitating impact that a violent environment has on a child and provides the means to help

This program launched in 1995 by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS). COPS provided up to $1 million dollars to ten police departments in ten cities across the nation to support targeted, focused enforcement efforts to combat the rise of youth firearm violence. YFVI encouraged selected jurisdiction to employ community policing approaches to develop or enhance programs designed

The Greater Roseland Coalition (GRC) is a product of an anti-violence movement that grew out of the need to address the surge in gun violence on the South Side of Chicago. The Coalition is a result of a merger between Community Assistance Programs (CAPs), Roseland Ceasefire (RFC) & Lights of Zion Training Institute (LOZTI). Since its inception in 2010 combined, the Greater Roseland Coalition (GRC) have served well over 5000 clients through our Violence Prevention Programs to provide critical outreach, intervention and interruption services to reduce gun violence through our comprehensive programming that include: Neighborhood Recovery Initiative (NRI), the Illinois Criminal Justice Authority, Access to Recovery Program, (ATR), Illinois Violence Prevention Authority, and the Illinois Department of Corrections, programs to provide mentoring and reduced to recidivism Our target population includes court involved youth, with letters of cooperation, other at-risk youth, as well as Chicagoans who are at high risk to be perpetrators or victims of gun violence in the Greater Roseland Community, however, we do

New Orleans is one of the most murderous cities in America but in 2013 the crime rate decreased by twenty percent compared to the year before. In 2012, one hundred and ninety-three people were murdered and in 2013, one hundred and fifty-five people were killed. Doctors use a different technique for those who were shot and wounded, which they say those victims survive from. This technique brought the murder rate down by fifteen percent. Non-profit Organizations, job opportunities, and rebuilding neighborhoods also helped the crime rate. These initiatives are a way to get younger people off the streets by mentoring and educating at risk youth.

The Concentrated Community Gang Enforcement Program, also known as the Flying Squad, focused on patrol and elimination missions in areas with serious gang problems. The available resources were split into 3 groups. One group focused on long term conspiracy. The second group focused on street gangs and the third group focused on police deployment. The following organizations and events are a result of this resource distribution. The Chicago’s Alternative Policing Strategy expanded resources to target beat level gang problems. The Strategic Inspections Task Force focused on neighborhood concerns such as regulatory code enforcement of abandoned buildings associated with gangs. The Chicago Anti-Gun Enforcement Program sought to reduce illegal

After doing extensive research on this topic I found that between 1985 and 1994 the rate of violent criminal acts increased. During this period juvenile homicides committed with a handgun also increased. A national evaluation of the Youth Firearms Violence Initiative (YFVI), a program initiated by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), the organization who funds intervention programs. This particular program employed community policy approaches to decrease the number of violent fireman crimes committed by youth, including gang-and drug-related offenses. There are five intensive sites (Baltimore, Cleveland, Inglewood, Salinas, San Antonio) that were chosen for the YFVI initiatives. The reason for these particular areas is because of the high crime rate. There is evidence from Inglewood and the Salinas area that supports their view about how weapons and crime affect their neighborhoods, although at the other sites the interventions did not yield the same results. How results in a specific area turn out depends on how a department conceives the initiative and the consistency of their focus. It is mandatory that the federal government play a strong role in ensuring that participating departments adhere to the strategic goals and objectives. There are questions regarding how funding agencies should adopt a timetable that more closely matches the agencies of the world in which most departments operate. In regards to making sure the programs run smoothly

Before watching this documentary I knew little about cease fire. For the most part all of what I knew came from what the media showed. Surprisingly most of the media coverage that I saw portrayed CeaseFire as a positive community program. As we know CeaseFire operates in communities with high crime rates such as Chicago and Maywood, but they also operate in cities such as Rockford, East St Louis, Springfield, and North Chicago/Waukegan. Overall, CeaseFire as a program has showed significate changes in decreased shootings and killings. According to Ceasefires website in 2004, Chicago had a drop in killings, with 50 percent drop in CeaseFire zones. Also, before watching the documentary I was not aware that the volunteers were past gang members.

Youth savagery is a standout amongst the most specified and talked about issue in most city and schools around the nation. The reason for savagery can be faulted for an assortment of things, for example, medications, groups, and the temperamental mindset of teenagers. A blend of these three things prompts savagery in the schools. Understudies have communicated their indignation and dissatisfaction on their associates in the most vicious and deadly way that could be available. They have open let go or put explosives which have slaughtered and harmed other kids and educators. It has been important to place cops inside and encompassing the schools everywhere throughout the city to bargain and someway stop school savagery. Reliably

The United States is facing an epidemic of seriously violent crimes in middle schools and high schools across the country. At least fifty people have died due to a series of high school shootings. These shooting rampages have occurred across the United States in 13 cities ranging from Pennsylvania to southern Mississippi and to western California. Just when the murder rampages seem to be subsiding, another tragedy occurs. Preventive measures have been taken by the government and school systems. For instance, in 1994, Congress passed the Drug-Free Schools and Community Act, which provides for support of drug and violence prevention programs. However, these programs have not been effective in taming the ferocious dispositions of the