Report Title:

Risk-focused Policing

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.R. NO.

43

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 
   


HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

requesting the police departments to adopt a risk-focused policing model.

 

 

WHEREAS, the city of Redlands, California has developed a unique model to address the root causes of teen substance abuse, delinquency, violence, dropping out of school, and pregnancy; and

WHEREAS, this model consolidates housing, recreation, and senior services as well as provides a holistic approach to build healthy, sustainable, and protective neighborhoods; and

WHEREAS, the police in Redlands teamed up with the schools and with other components of the criminal justice system, including local government, community-based organizations, the faith community, health care providers, and housing professionals; and

WHEREAS, this program is data- and results-driven, with community-oriented policing and problem solving that focuses on the factors in a community that place youth and their families at risk for criminal and other problem behaviors; and

WHEREAS, among other tactics, risk-focused policing puts officers on site at campuses to provide prevention, intervention, and suppression, working with students, teachers, staff, and parents to address early and persistent antisocial behavior, academic failure, and lack of commitment to school to achieve optimum results; and

WHEREAS, this integration of community policing and a risk and protective factor framework has had very positive results in Redlands, and has made this program one of the finalists in the Ford Foundations Innovations in American Government grant awards; and

WHEREAS, since the time risk-focused policing was adopted in Redlands, the city has experienced significantly lower levels of crime and community problems in those areas where policing, recreation, and housing resources were focused, with major crimes dropping fifteen per cent in general in 1999, with an additional fifty per cent drop in areas of concentrated focus; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-first Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2001, that the police departments in each county are urged to adopt risk-focused policing and team up with schools and criminal justice system participants to form a community-wide treatment system to alleviate crime and community problems in high-risk areas; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that schools and other organizations and entities involved in the criminal justice system are urged to cooperate fully with the county police departments in adopting risk-focused policing; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Chief of Police of each county and to the Superintendent of Education and Chairperson of the Board of Education.

 

 

 

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