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W 4-20-81 National Institute of Justice United States Department of Justicte Washington, D. C. 20531 ---- ,_. - - ..... """~-=~,.,...::::;.;;:;:;~~ .,b,-" ,_"L_ ,"","-,~--"-~~.-,--.'-":""'~~J:....::J.,,"o-~-_==.t. .:...c.'...- ........ ,. """~ rA u. s. OEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CATEGORICAL GRANT '"WU•• ENfORCEMEHT ASSISTANCE ADMINISTRATION PROGRESS REPORT OATE 0,. REPORT REPORT NO. G"ANTEE LEA A GRANT NO. Salt Lake City~ Utah 79-Df-AX-000.5 Jui.u· 198'!...!1"----L. __ ._11____ ._ ~1-W-P-L-E-W-E-N·-T-,NGiSUBG"ANTEII!: TYP£ OF REPORT C]REGUl.A" o SP£CIAL REQUEST 00 FINAL REPORT GRANT ,AMOUNT SHORT TITLE OF PROJECT i.84~9 -.---:----------i / THROUGH -:;;0' REPORTAnti-Crime IS SUBMIT_TEO Team FOR THE PERlor. • )' l....a=4.'::.)9 ~_~_ __ ~ J 9.14...atI...::s i!!JIt r - . TYPED NAME a TITLE PROJECT OIRECTOR SIGNA,TURE 0"" PROJECT OIRECTOR 'F Salt Lake City '-:- :~_\qLQ)j\.. u...~ ~~-~ , _.. F.e.oJr.e.Ylc.e.~~YleJ[., _ V-Ute.c.toJr. ------' COIoIIolENCE REPORT HERE rAdd con'/nu.'/on p."" •• requlr.d.) Anti-Crime Program ,,' Report follows on subsequent pages EVALUATION U.S. Department of Justice National Institute of Justice This document has been reproduced exactly as received from the person or organization originating it. Points of view or opinions stated in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or pOlicies of the National Institute of Justice. Permission to reproduce this c~d material has been granted by Public Domain/LEAA to the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS). Further reproduction outside of the NCJRS system requires permis­ sion of the ~i owner. - I ACQUfiSrrfiONS .. Bonneville Research NOTE"• Ne I ..,,,., man'"- .. alna,.. ""'".L_ 1/1 • .... .. b. r--id oul und., ,hi. ptD,r .... unl••• ,,,,. ,rp"" i. c~mpl,'.d .nd II'.d •• trqu".d b, •• 'a"n, /... • "d r.,u/.'lona (F.\lC 74-7; Omnlbu. C,lm. Can"al ACI a' "7'). • OA T It ~-----.-RECEIVED BY GRANTEE STAT£ PLANNING AGENCY (Ome/.') Salt Lake City, Utah/November 1980 LEAA FORM .s17/! IREV. z·n, "£Pl.AC£S EDITION OFIO·7S.HICH IS 08501.£T£. I ; I . , BONNEVILLE RESEARCH 38 EAST FIRST SOUTH SAI.T L.At<E CITY, UTAH 841 I I 801 534.1025 L. Wayne Horrocks December 19, 1980 Pag,e Two December 19, 1980 4. Local television, radio and newspapers contributed many hours and pages to crime prevention features, but Mr. L. Wayne Horrocks whether their efforts increased public awareness is not Director Anti-Crime Team known. Salt Lake City Corporation 255 East 400 south No. 103 5. Women allover the State of Utah received self-protection Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 training and rape follow-up treatment through the Rape Crisis Center. Dear ~'1ayne: 6. Juvenile offenders with high recidivism rates were This report is a summary of the two years of operation of brought to below a 40% recidivism rate through the the LEAA-funded Crime Prevention Grant for Salt Lake City efforts of Project Youth Pride. Corporation. I~ follows the basic format in which the grant is written with objectives, and the strategies to accomplish As with any new or demonstration effort however, opportunities to those objectives, as the basic components. Each objective learn from experience are vast. We therefore recommend that was looked at individually and then documentation was re­ Salt Lake City consider the following recommendations for future viewed that would support and meet that objective. The grants of this nature: results were presented in the form of "Findings" and were ascertained from files of the Anti-Crime Team, the Salt Lake A comprehensive plan should be developed for data col­ City Police Department Crime Prevention Unit, Project Youth lection in line with grant goals and objectives to be Pride and the Rape Crisis Center. used by ~ participating agencies. The evaluation was completed by reviewing records, face-to­ Clear lines of authority, even coordinating authority, face interviews with agency heads and other key individuals, must be established, exercised, and demanded from all telephone surveys, and personal observation of printed participating parties. materials developed and disseminated by the project. Perhaps such varied agencies as the Rape Crisis Center, A summary of the key findings found in the report are as the police, a school program, and a crime watch citizens' fo:'lows: program should not be funded under one grant. They have different goals and create tremendous monitoring diffi­ 1. The program g~nerally met or exceeded the grant culties. objectives. J The grant itself indicates a very ambitious program for I a two-year funding cycle. An undertaking such as wqs 2. The Anti-Crime Team and Police Crime Prevention Unit , i organized over a two-year period a comprehensive outlined here could take many years to fully implement. citizens' crime watch program involving over 25,000 Salt Lake City residents. CETA workers should be more effectively screened and/or trained before being instituted into roles as critical 3. Salt Lake City residents and businesses were given to the project outcome as those in this project. a chance to interact with local law enforcement agencies in a positive and constructive manner. Advertising is the key to large involvement by the com­ ) munity in such a project. Perhaps more funds should be 4. Five hundred low income persons and senior citizens earmarked for this area. were able to purchase dead bolt locks at reduced rates or receive free dead bolt locks as a result of i The Anti-Crime Team program should be fully integrated this program (400 free and 100 at reduced rates) • I into the Neighborhood Council program. 'I The cooperation given by the Anti~Crime Team staff, the Crime I ,U I ~'''''-----:-.-.~-:':'':~.:::: ~-.- - --~---~--------.-~.-,-~-----.- ._ ..• ": ," • -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bonneville Research L. Wayne Horrocks December 19, 1980 Page Three Objectiv~ a. Prevention Unit officers and other agency directors was gracious, Utilizing the key resources of Utah Hands Up and the Salt helpful and of vital importance in the completion of this docu­ Lake City Police Department's Community Affairs Sureau, ment. Given the difficulties of implementing a program of this initiate a. comprehensive community crime prevention program. scope and magnitude, and given the time constraints and person~ nel problems, the amount of work accomplished is indeed impressive. strategy JJJ. The data presented and the analysis given is solely the opinion CETA and Outreach workers will precede public meetin9s w.ith of the evaluator unless otherwise specified. door to door distribution of literature regarding the Anti­ Crime Team, or make telephone contact with residents to Very truly yours, encourage participation. Findings: Robert L. Springmeyer, Jr. This strategy was met by door to door canvassing of neighbor­ hoods, handing out flyers indicating meeting times and place, also a brief description of the Neighborhood Watch program. The actual number of literature drops is .unknown. o Roughly a 250,000 figure was quoted by the Business and Media Robyn Carter Coordinator .. No documentation of telephone contact is recorded. It is noted through interviews with Outreach workers. that phone contacts were made to key, previously identified, Area or Block Leaders to help organize individual blocks. l) strategy (21 Neighborhoods will be encouraged to organize with Block Leaders. Findings: ) Neighborhood organizations known as the Salt Lake Association of Community Councils are already functioning and fbrm the general entities' geographical breakdown for the projec ts. They have been ranked from data collected by the Crime Prevention Unit using their comprehensive crime statistics as to the areas having high incidence of priorit~ crimes (burglary, robbery, vandalism, rape). These figures are ranked in Figure No.1. Within these nine geographical areas there were to be volun'teers trained to be Area Leaders, having eight hours of training, and Assistant Area Leaders under the directorship of Outreach workers and police officers. The areas were to be further broken down into Block Leaders, having three to four hours training, and Assistan= • If) Block Leaders- a block being roughly defined as those houses on the same street having street numbers within ten numbers of ''>; each other. It is important to note, for purposes of evalua­ agw tion, that the documented meetings held in the various geograph­ ical regions often comprised several blocks. This was done to I maximize Anti-Crime Team and Crime Prevention Unit personnel 0 time usage as it was stated to be impractical to hold indiv~dual block meetings for every block. o :r I ,. I I ) Bonneville Research , 1 r Bonneville Research In theory the Block Leaders were either chosen by their peers t or had volunteered to keep up block meetings on their own, using training given by Anti-Crime Team and Crime Prevention I, ) The data received is given in Figure 4.