[vc_row][vc_column][trx_title style=”underline”]Strengthen Community Engagement in Crime Prevention Efforts[/trx_title][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Strengthening community involvement and improving community relations with law enforcement are of critical importance. While most people of good faith strive for these goals in their professional and everyday lives, setting specific actions to achieve these ends is important to bringing a deliberateness and commitment to the process. Community engagement permeates all measures
set forth in this plan. The goal of strengthening community engagement in crime prevention is measured through an assessment of process outcomes, rather than crime reduction outcomes per se. Improvements in these processes will impact the ultimate outcome goal of reduced crime.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”55px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1571784171078{background-color: #1c303c !important;}”]Key Goal Outcomes:
- Community satisfaction with law enforcement will improve.
- Increase the number of citizens participating in community groups related to crime prevention by at least 100% by 2021.
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”55px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tour shape=”square” color=”black” active_section=”1″ pagination_style=”flat-square” pagination_color=”black” no_fill_content_area=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Objective A1″ tab_id=”1571784563915-3c41f24d-fb50″][trx_title style=”divider”]Neighborhood Safety Initiative[/trx_title][vc_column_text]Objective A1: Establish and maintain a “Neighborhood Safety Initiative” (NSI) that
builds on and strengthens partnerships among neighborhood groups, law
enforcement, and other city/county government agencies. (Key owners: Crime
Commission, City of Memphis, Shelby County)
Key Objective Outcomes:
- Ensure that all neighborhoods in NSI geographic areas have effective neighborhood watch groups.
- Obtain a solve rate of at least 80% for citizen complaints brought through the NSI program by 2021.
- Reach an average turnaround time for resolving citizen complaints from NSI areas of no more than 30 days.
[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Objective A2″ tab_id=”1571784563914-69766b4e-ee6c”][trx_title style=”divider”]Community Prosecution[/trx_title][vc_column_text]Establish a community prosecution model in targeted communities.
(Key owner: District Attorney’s Office)
Key Objective Outcomes:
- Accelerate the disposition time for cases from the participating neighborhoods.
- Increase the number of productive Crimestoppers contacts within the participating neighborhoods.
[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Objective A3″ tab_id=”1571784638008-e3c3d48a-473a”][trx_title style=”divider”]Police-Citizen Relations[/trx_title][vc_column_text]Intensify problem-solving community policing through stronger
police-citizen relations. (Key owners: Memphis Police Department, Shelby County
Sheriff’s Office, Crimestoppers)
Key Objective Outcomes:
- Increase the number and percentage of productive Crimestoppers contacts.”
- Increase the number and percentage of citizen-initiated tips/complaints that result in charges being filed
[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Objective A4″ tab_id=”1571784642122-edfcb275-cb9f”][trx_title style=”divider”]Safeways[/trx_title][vc_column_text]Expand Safeways’ intensive crime prevention program for Shelby
County apartment communities. (Key owner: Safeways, Inc.)
Key Objective Outcomes:
- Expand Safeways inspection/consultation services to at least 50 % of 100+ unit properties by 2021.
- Expand from the current 8% to at least 30% of 100+ unit properties participating in the Safeways certification program by z021.
- Reduce the level of reported crime in participating properties by at least 25% (compared to the level of reported crime prior to their enrollment) by 2021.
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