Effectively Engaging Community in Violence Reduction: How Law Enforcement Can Incorporate a Community-Based Crime Reduction Approach
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This conference workshop presentation addresses each of the four core elements for successful community-based crime reduction strategies and their practical application at the local level as part of BJA and IACP's Innovations in Community-Based Crime Reduction Training and Technical Assistance Program. Sustainable reductions in violent crime require collaboration among partners in law enforcement, the broader criminal justice system, service providers, and the communities they serve. Successful community-based crime reduction strategies focus on four core elements. Place-based strategy target where crime is concentrated and enhance the impact of crime control efforts with locally driven neighborhood revitalization strategies. Community oriented to increase community and resident engagement in shaping and sustaining crime prevention and revitalization efforts. Data and evidence driven to improve the use of data and research to problem solve and guide program strategy. Build partnerships and enhance trust to build capacity to promote sustainable collaborations that tackle problems from multiple angles. The presenters discuss real world examples of successful evidence-based crime reduction strategies and how they engaged and collaborated with community members and local stakeholders to sustainably improve public safety.
Nicholas Corsaro
Associate Professor, School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati
Nicholas Corsaro, PhD, is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati, and is the Research Director of the IACP/UC Center for Police, Research, and Policy. He has served as an evaluator for large number of strategic crime prevention initiatives, such as Project Safe Neighborhoods, Open-Air Drug Market interventions, and prior Community Based Crime Reduction (CBCR) strategies.
Mark Fleecs
Commander, Denver, Colorado, Police Department
Commander Mark Fleecs is a 29-year veteran of the Denver Police Department. For the past twelve years he has served at the rank of Commander. In his first three years at this position he directed the 125-member Investigative Support Division which includes many of the Department's pro-active investigative units including Vice/Drug Control, Intelligence, Fugitive Apprehension, Gang Suppression/Prevention and Multi-Jurisdictional Task Force Operations. Subsequent to that and for the past five years, Commander Fleecs has led Patrol Division District Four in Southwest Denver, which is staffed with 150 patrol and investigative personnel. In this position he has been at the forefront of community-based crime reduction and prevention efforts. During his career he has also served as the Operations Commander for the Front Range Drug Task Force – an initiative supported by the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. This task force combines investigative resources from federal, state and local agencies to target drug trafficking organizations. Much of his career has been spent working in drug and human trafficking enforcement and community policing.
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