ROPE Model

Results from Chicago’s Project Safe Neighborhoods showed a 37 percent decrease each month in homicide cases. Before Project Safe Neighborhoods was created the homicide rate was up to 60 percent. Not only did Chicago see a difference in homicide rates, but, those who attended the small community programs were 30 percent less likely to return to prison. Research done through a survey with a 150 offenders showed that the small programs made a positive impact on showing a good relationship between the police and offenders. The

Nevertheless, the key to the improvement of the quality of life and perception of crime in these neighborhoods is the officer’s ability to listen to neighbors, working with them to creatively address issues. ROPE is the neighborhood’s liaison with government resources, including the police, providing an immediate link to community policing efforts throughout the City Of Elgin. The identification of neighborhood issues, followed by a coordination of effort lead by the police with City departments, is the key to ROPE success. Each neighborhood poses issues requiring unique solutions. ROPE, in concert with an enhanced department philosophy of community policing, offers an opportunity to benefit neighborhoods across the City of Elgin. Also, the ability to identify a problem and find its solution is one aspect of ROPE that provides both challenges and rewards to the officer and neighbors. The personal contact with the neighborhood is an immeasurable benefit of the program. The program provides a constant challenge to solve problems while living and working in the neighborhood that a resident officer must realize. Scheduling must be flexible, contrary to traditional policing, to allow officers the ability to address quality

Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center Rehabilitation Of The Past: The Beginning and The End Of the 20th century

The Resident Officer Program of Elgin (ROPE) was created in May 1991 in Elgin, Illinois. The reason why it was created was to improve the quality of life in neighborhoods that were plagued with crime and violence (Elgin, 2017). The idea behind it was to have law enforcement officers live within the troubled communities free of charge so that there was a constant officer presence as well as to help bridge the gap of distrust between the residents and the police department. The resident officer program is still in existence and Elgin currently has four resident officers (3 males and one female) and has expanded to other parts of Illinois as well as in Texas (Dempsey & Forst, 2016). The status of the program is that is has proven to be very effective in Elgin as well as other locations throughout Illinois and Texas. Rockford, Illinois Police Chief Dan O’Shea is getting the program implemented into his department because as a former officer

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

SWAT teams have been popping up in towns since the 1960’s, but SWAT procedure has been extended to lesser trained peoples within

Enhance rehabilitative programming in Illinois prisons: Improve access to education; vocational training and substance abuse programs to help offenders successfully adapt to life after prison, this is essential to lower the rate of recidivism.

Teachers in the classrooms where the program is being taught also help facilitate the lessons as well. All of the four phases have the same primary focus, which is to educate its participants about the dangers of gang membership. The first component of the program is taught to students in elementary school. In this phase, students are introduced to the GREAT program concepts and skills in order to begin the change in the participant’s behavior. The students participate in six lessons and each is about one hour in duration. These lessons teach the participants about the importance of decision making, how to effectively communicate with others, and they also get exposure to anger management strategies. The six lessons in the elementary stage are essential to help to build a foundation for the middle school component of the GREAT program, which goes more in depth into gang resistances (Esbensen et al.,

Roper v Simmons, Case Number 03-633 (ROPER V. SIMMONS (03-633), 2017), brought before the court October 13, 2004 to March 1, 2005, Roper who was the Superintendent at Potosi Correction Center and Christopher Simmons who is the juvenile offender at the time. Brief Summary of the crime, Christopher Simmons, who was junior in high school at the time of the crime, had told two of his friends that he wanted to kill someone. He planned out the crime, by doing a home invasion. He told his friends that they could break in like a burglary, tie their victim up and through the victim over the nearby bridge. He also, stated to his friends since we are minors we will get away with the crime. Simmons knew the person of interest because he was involved with

As the planners of the Red Hook Justice center’s they looked at addressing two primary goals. Reducing crimes and improving quality of life within the Red Hook neighborhood. By combing aspects of the broken window theory, such as aiming to deter minor crimes with the involvement of the community and a drug court like program, that helped to provide supervised drug treatment. The planners believed that the community court would help to deter future acts of crimes, intervene, and help to enhance the legitimacy of the justice system.

Bement, Illinois is a village where people talk to their neighbors and offer a helping hand in the community. The problem in Bement is that people, ev men are selling drugs at the Piatt County Bement Park. The clear solution to this problem is that the Bement High School Principal Doug Kepley should work with the police officer in town and hold a meeting to start a neighborhood watch for the park so that the people in this small village can feel safe and know that their children aren’t able to easily access drugs.

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

The G.R.EA.T. program is taught to the youth starting in elementary and continuing until middle school. The elementary program and middle school program are both skill based learning. The elementary program is designed as an introduction course to the middle school program. The elementary program sets the foundation that begins to teach the youth skills that are needed for the more intensive program that is taught in middle school. All of this is done while they develop the bond between the youth and law enforcement officials. These bonds continue to develop once the students move onto the middle school program.

Virginia, I agree that it is wonderful how the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative has helped the juveniles. Although the admission to the detention has reduced to 50%, because of this percentage a juvenile is less likely to complete high school and we not be able to find employment. However, I am impressed with the HOMEBOY Industries in how they implement programs to ex-gang members which initially gives them a second chance. Nevertheless, this organization focus in the area that is of great importance such as, counseling, education, job training. Therefore I believe that this program should be executed in our major large city to assist ex-gang members in becoming a productive citizen. Thanks for giving your observation about this topic.

This program received much ridicule from law enforcement professionals as it decreased, in their eyes, the versatility of their service to the community. It seemed as that in removing officers from their patrol vehicles, it would not allow them to respond quickly to other calls and better protect their patrolled communities. As they came to find, it actually gave the people in those communities a greater sense of security and pride in their home turf.