Community Safety
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Defending Your Town Against Zombies
- Apr 23, 2018
- LISC paper draws best practices from New York State for dealing with vacant and “zombie” properties
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#FlintRevitalizing
- Aug 25, 2017
- Blog series features resident-led efforts in Flint, Michigan
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The Institute’s Top Stories of 2016
- Dec 19, 2016
- A look at our most popular stories of the year
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A Call to Step into One Another’s Shoes
- Ben McBride, Dec 7, 2016
- Helping to bridge the gap between law enforcement and communities of color
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Choice Neighborhoods and the Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Program
- Jun 30, 2016
- New LISC publication shows how overlapping housing and crime reduction initiatives reinforce one another
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Community Safety's Key Ingredient: Trust
- Nov 6, 2015
- Building trusting relationships between community members and law enforcement is challenging, but essential
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Working Together To Make Everyone Safer
- Julia Ryan, Oct 22, 2015
- Community-police partnerships are more critical than ever to bring safety to troubled neighborhoods
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Neighborhoods beckon with summer activities
- Maria Hernandez, Jun 25, 2014
- An array of community programs in Chicago make summer more fun--and make their neighborhood a better place to be.
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Community Safety: Evaluating
- Carl Vogel, Feb 6, 2014
- A community group’s comprehensive approach to stopping crime makes a difference in West Philadelphia. They know because they’ve measured the impact.
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Community Safety: Leading
- Carl Vogel, Jan 28, 2014
- A Los Angeles CDC has increased the power of its public safety work by creating partnerships with police and like-minded agencies.
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Community Safety: Communicating
- Carl Vogel, Jan 7, 2014
- By telling their story often and well, community developers working on public safety in Providence have been able to build on their success.
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Community Safety: Engaging
- Carl Vogel, Nov 4, 2013
- In one Milwaukee neighborhood, the first stage in improving community safety has been taking the time to build the power of community.
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Community Safety: Implementing
- Carl Vogel, Nov 4, 2013
- Crime is down and abandoned buildings are being rehabbed in Dudley Square in Boston, thanks to close attention to the details of a public safety campaign.
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Community Safety: Planning
- Carl Vogel, Nov 4, 2013
- In Cincinnati’s Walnut Hills neighborhood, a wide variety of stakeholders provided data and information to create a plan that is making the business district a safer place.
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Community Safety: What It Takes
- Carl Vogel, Nov 4, 2013
- Lessons from local groups that have worked with LISC’s Community Safety Initiative can help your community fight crime—step by step.
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"The tactical thing wasn't working"
- Sam Dolgin-Gardner, Feb 6, 2013
- At a summit in Newark, N.J., experts on crime prevention, community organizations, Greater Newark LISC and police sat down and talked about a new era in fighting local crime.
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Public safety in numbers
- Jacqueline Samuel, Oct 21, 2012
- In South Chicago, a local organizer explains that when violence threatens to take over a community, it takes the whole community to fight back.
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Removing trouble spots
- Elizabeth Duffrin, Jul 9, 2012
- Neighborhoods in Houston are using safety audits to bring in partners and resources to improve the community in all sorts of ways.
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In Houston, neighbors, cops put heads together
- Elizabeth Duffrin, Jul 2, 2012
- In Houston's Independence Heights neighborhood, residents have become the eyes-on-the-street, working with police to keep criminal activity at bay. Here's how they do it.
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Community development that fights crime
- Elizabeth Duffrin, Apr 9, 2012
- Seven tips on how to improve community safety, gleaned from police and community partners in two tough neighborhoods in Boston and Philadelphia.
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Reducing crime with childcare: An innovative approach in Cypress Hills
- Julia Ryan, Feb 20, 2012
- A new public safety program uses the unique role of local childcare facilities to communicate with families and build relationships with the police.
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Research Round Up: Taking Lessons from Medicine
- Reviewed by Richard Mertens, Dec 12, 2011
- Two researchers argue that violence prevention efforts could become more effective if there were more research into violence prevention and greater effort to apply that research.
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'Eyes on the street' in Providence
- By Pamela Thomas, Dec 5, 2011
- In the West End neighborhood of Providence, RI, new security cameras might just help local merchants prosper and encourage area residents to be more physically active.
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Not in our town
- By Pearl M. Jones, Sep 19, 2011
- "Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness" is a new PBS documentary that tells the story of residents of a Long Island village taking action after a local immigrant was killed in a hate crime attack.
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A Natural Connection: The Role of Public Safety in Community Development
- by Julia Ryan, Jul 20, 2011
- Across the country, local organizations are working with police to incorporate public safety into the mix of issues addressed in a comprehensive community development initiative -- with good results.
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