Top 3 causes of major
violent crime?
Responses
Drugs, lack of education, gangs
Lack of jobs
Deterioration of family structure
Young mothers/fathers
Gang replacing the family structure
Low self-esteem
Economics drivers (low wages)
Lack of affordable housing
Lack of morality, spirituality, family structure
Gang involvement and displacement
Poor influences
Inadequate recreation/after school program
Common theme
Economic drivers
Family structure deterioration
Gangs/drugs
Spiritual
What
the City, Individual, Business, and Others Should Do:
City
Proper money management/financial
Life skills
Reduce isolation of conditions
Affordable housing
Organized mentorship program
Encourage city-wide focus/do more
Visible safe site signs on rec. centers
Special skills training for residents
Increase police resources
Recreation programs evening reporting
Re-invest in drug treatment
Residents/businesses
Neighborhood/business watch
Get involved in problem solving
Stop
talking about it, do it
Capture
at-risk youth through programs
Invest
in recreation/evening programs
Lack
of opportunities Educational Recreational Activities
·
Faith-based programs
·
More emphasis on Federal Trio
·
Upward bound program in High School
·
Have city provide additional trained counselors (educational)
·
After hour programs @ schools
Top 3 causes of major
violent crime?
1.
Hopelessness (parental involvement & other models)
2.
Inadequate activities for youth (gangs, drugs, no accountability)
3.
Society produces glamorized images of violence
What
the City, Individual, Business, and Others Should Do:
City
Encourage schools (early years) to
have peer
Mediation
training & create program, to
Promote continual of education.
. Expand youth programs (educational,
cultural & recreational) (waive costs, increase time & jobs)
Restrict accessibility to x-rated
tapes, videos, etc. through industries
Residents & Businesses
Become more engaged by connecting to
opportunities to help
Keep (parents) children
engaged; businesses give employees time to be involved; civic leagues give block parties
. Restrict exposure of violence
Others
Lobby for state & federal government support
Keep facilities for your open longer with
structured programs.
Design schools recreation centers, & libraries
in close proximity.
Increase summer youth jobs.
Top 3 causes of major
violent crime?
- Drugs
- Poverty
- Lack of village
mentality
What
the City, Individual, Business, and Others Should Do:
City
Classes in public – City
can do
Schools (early prevention)
Community Based Drug – City can
do program.
Eliminate or control gun use. City can do
Increase funding to City
official to help control gun use.
Find the source of the
drugs
Individual
Become more involved in
your community
Get involved in
neighborhood forums.
Increase information of
police recruitment.
Open Schools as a place for
activities for children at no cost.
Use money for its intended
use - City
Education / Work force
education - City
Affordable Housing in all
neighborhoods - City
Spend time helping –
individuals can do
Give of yourself invest in your community –
individuals can do
Helping people move past poverty - City
Give people hope
Letting people become apart of the village
Listening to our youth
Don’t be afraid of our youth
Community has to be the eyes and ears for law
enforcement
City has to offer protection to those who report.
Sensitize police so they will treat people equally,
respectfully.
Target owners of drug houses
Top 3 causes of major
violent crime?
1.
Society produces glamorized images of violence.
2.
Inadequate activities for youth (gang, drugs, accountability)
3.
Hopelessness (parental involvement & other models)
What
the City, Individual, Business, and Others Should Do:
City
Encourage beginning early schools to have peer mediators &
training and create education
Expand youth (educational,
cultural, recreational) youth Programs (waive costs, increase time,) jobs)
Restrict accessibility of
tapes, video, etc. through industry
Residents
& Businesses
Become more engaged by connecting to opportunities
to help.
Parents keep children
engaged; civic leagues, give block parties (businesses to give employees time
to be involved) set up internships.
Restrict exposure of violence.
Others
State & Federal Government
support.
Keep facilities for youth open longer with
structured Programs.
Designs schools, recreational
centers & libraries
in close proximity.
Increase
summer youth departments.
Top 3 causes of major violent
crime?
1.
Lack of positive role models, family values
2.
Lack of early childhood education
3.
Lack of after school opportunities(more/better after school
Opportunities
Other causes:
Lack of employment – for ex-offenders, Anger/hopelessness
Substance abuse / drug
related
Family – parental guidance
Poverty
Lack of Religious/Spiritual foundation (“morals”)
compass
After school activities for youth safe environment
Assumption that group of boys = trouble
Lack of education
Support needed for individuals who want to help
Lack of self esteem: don’t value self or others
Media overload of violence leads to de-sensitivity
to violence
Too much exposure of kids via media to violence
What
the City, Individual, Business, and Others Should Do:
Cause
1: Lack of positive role models,
family values, family structure
City
City resources distributed
more equitably invest more in low in come neighborhood
More emphasis on parenting
programs but must have teachers that have been there
Parenting education must
last longer
Businesses & Individuals Should:
Put family time in
corporate benefits
In house day care at
businesses
Training
Cause 2: Lack of early childhood
education
City
A
more comprehensive day long Pre-K child education for all income levels – age
0-3
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Teach mothers job skills, parenting skills, living skills
Businesses
& Individuals Should:
Help young families (ie. in the check out line) in
your neighborhood
Cause 3: Lack of
after school opportunities (more/better after school opportunities)
City
Open public spaces
More resources to libraries & recreation
facilities
Teach whole child at this age (ie. respect)
Schools need to restore extra curricular programs
Businesses & Individuals should:
Volunteering promoted/encouraged
Discussion on the top 3
causes of major violent crime?
We are
to busy to address problems.
Don’t know what kids
want/think?/not listening
Kids seeing poor examples
in adults in own neighborhood
Lack of music programs
Not enough space,
computers, & staff for after school programs at library
Not enough resource for
early childhood education
Lack of self esteem and
hope/sense of future
Lack of instruction about
financial/economics
Too fashionable for kids to
earn money through drug trafficking
Substance abuse
Families are broken, not
teaching right &wrong
Role models are wrong—kids
seeing drug dealers with nice cars but teachers with low salaries.
Need more realistic role
models for kids – people who have been there
Home equities have been
lowered
Teaching real values &
principles vs. material
Popular advertising
Poverty
Lack of vocational
education opportunities/too much emphasis on college as only route
Lack of adult guidance and
support
Homeless teenagers/living
out of desperation
Education
Poverty / economics
Family instability
Role models
Lack of father
Lack of parent/child
interaction
Lack of parental role
models
Greed and jealousy emerging
from lack of opportunity
Breakdown of moral values leads to lack of respect
Breakdown of moral fiber
No value of life
Too much idle time
Too much TV
Media glamorize, anti-social behavior
Domestic violence
Lack of spiritual values in
home/lack of religion
Proliferation of hand
guns
Top 3 causes of major
violent crime?
1.
Drugs, Break down in family structure, robbery, peer pressure, too much
freedom with children’s authority over parents, lack of jobs, no religion,
poverty, respect for God and too much T.V.
2.
Mental illness, “weapons, assault lack of hope and faith, boredom,
single mother homes lack structure, lack of understanding with neighbors reality
3.
Debt, domestic violence, apathy, Lack of direction for youth, teenage
pregnancy, Desensitization
What
the City, Individual, Business, and Others Should Do:
City
Foster opportunities and people believing in
opportunities
Raise awareness through discussion of family
instability
Partner with Faith based organizations to foster
respect for self and others
Make schools available for more after hours
programs-gym, computer resources, libraries, tutoring
Business
Foster interning and
mentoring
Create volunteer opportunities for employees
(example: day off to mentor in schools)
(No one deals with children at home anymore)
(Neighbors can’t get involved legally)
(Ability to make local government award of specific
instances aside from 911)
(Communication between city, businesses, and
community
(1)
City should: provide mentoring in
school forum-environment - implement dress code in school
(2)
Lack of Safe Structured Environment.
City should: intentionally entice businesses to actively
participate
Local community involvement
Provide bodies not just
money
Community Stress “Village Mentality”
Mentoring
to Parents #1 Need
(3)
EDUCATION – VOCATIONAL – PUSH
City should make more
available programs for training for Adulthood
Nutrition - Education –
Checkbook EDU.
Anger Management
Education for educators –
children’s social programs
Breakdown barriers between family units and village
Top 3 causes of major
violent crime?
Highlights:
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Poverty lack of resources
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Days
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Lack of individual commitment
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Hunger poor nutrition
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Lack of parent support (support for parents)
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Value System Change/Welfare Performs
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Programs geared toward children not family as a whole
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No longer have a standard (society)
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Educate
public about current available programs
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Lack
of leadership
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Absent parents
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Economics
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Positive role models have left the community
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Lack of opportunity
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Media influence, entertainment materialism violence
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Can’t appreciate delayed gratification work ethic
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Economics
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Lack of Leadership
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Values/Accountability
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Personal Responsibility
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City government to model values and be accountable
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Create and enforce a code of ethics
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Enforce the laws
What
the City, Individual, Business, and Others Should Do:
Economics:
City
Redirect finances to families rather
than just youth programs
Fix problems within
neighborhoods
Pass
policies
Legislators
at state level/make it more inclusive
Parents program
Add
commitment to dollars
Business
Interpersonal Communication
Business
should invest in communities
Collaboration
between business and residents
Be
award and involved w/issues participate
Strongly
encourage involvement by business or boycott them
Living
wage / Jobs -fair salaries
More higher paying jobs…
Lack of affordable housing
Large
position of property in military hands no tax base
Lack of Leadership
City
Long-term planning
Comprehensive
strategic plan
Identify key issues ie, poverty, drugs
Commitment to plan
Represent all members of community
Connect with neighbors
Participate
in communities
