NCJ Number
179739
Editor(s)
Marilyn Morey
Date Published
1999
Length
25 pages
Annotation
This document reviews successes in the four basic elements of the Weed and Seed strategy: law enforcement, community policing, prevention/intervention/treatment and neighborhood restoration.
Abstract
Operation Weed and Seed is a coordination strategy that works to make a wide range of public and private sector resources more accessible to communities. Under the leadership of U.S. attorneys, the strategy brings together Federal, State and local crime-fighting agencies, social service providers, representatives of public and private sectors, prosecutors, business owners and neighborhood residents, linking them in a shared goal of weeding out violent crime and gang activity while seeding the designated area with social services and economic revitalization. This report focuses on extraordinary efforts of specific Weed and Seed sites in developing and implementing effective strategies and describes how sites are networking on a regional level to enhance information sharing. The specific sites and their efforts are Law Enforcement, Salt Lake City, Utah; Neighborhood Revitalization, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Community Policing, San Jose, California; and Prevention Through the Arts, Syracuse, New York.