Tucson Neighbors Building Community

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Tucson Neighbors Building Community Successful
Neighborhood Interventions City of Tucson, Pima
County Arizona
Captain David Neri Ms. Tania Capin
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Unique Approach

• Defining / Measuring the Problem
• Investigation / Prosecution Model
• Meth Free Alliance
• Neighborhood Enforcement Model (TNBC Project)
• Tucson Media Campaign
• System-wide / Area-wide emphasis
• MTF / Field Triage and Coordination
• BTR Protocol

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Join the Movement

• Get Involved
• 520-792-3293
• Meth Stops With Us

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Meth Free AllianceTask Forces

• Public Information
• Law Enforcement
• Environmental
• Fund Development
• Data Research
• Business

• Prevention and Treatment
• Community
• Faith Community
• Legislative
• Youth

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Success Indicators

• 45 Reduction in meth availability - HIDTA
• 30 Reduction in meth related crime - TPD
• 87 Reduction in meth labs - DEA / CNA
• 96 Success in prosecution strategy - PCAO
• 400 Interest / Invested community members - MFA
• 550 Increase in E.R. presentations - AZDS

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TNBC Program GoalsApril 01, 2006 April 30, 2007

• Reduce Meth Related Crime
• Mobilize the Community
• Bring Users to Treatment
• Improve Quality of Life
• Increase Self-Reliance in the Neighborhood
• Reduce Availability of Meth

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2005 Hotspot Breakdown
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Neighborhood Selection Criteria

• Crime rates
• Faith institutions
• Census data
• Number of people on probation
• E.R. admissions by zip code
• School data
• Rental properties
• City of Tucson economic data
• Behavioral Health Patients

• Neighborhood assoc.
• Ambulance transports
• Number of offenders
• DEC / CPS data
• Pharmacy cash sales
• Zone restrictions
• Abatements
• Impacted employers
• Quality of Life survey
• Civic Centers

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TNBC Philosophies

• Addiction Motivation vs. Profit Motivation
• Community Level Solution
• Partnership vs. Participation
• Attack the Endemic Level of Crime
• True Model of Community Policing
• Train and Support Residents
• 1 Year / 3 Phases / Ongoing Technical Support

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Success Measures

• Reduce Meth Related Crime
• Drug specific crimes lt 4
• Drug related crime lt 60
• Counting cases by template
• Employed several methods of neighborhood, and
  area wide analysis
• Citywide comparisons

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Success Measures

• Building self-reliance
• Developed and maintained 25 community
  partnerships
• Self-generated and successful initiatives
• Ongoing protocols developed to maintain their
  sustainability (CLETF)

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Success Measures

• Building self-reliance in the neighborhood
• Established 25 TNBC partnerships
• Rental property initiative
• Business outreach initiative
• Conduct monthly neighborhood cleanups
• 3 public events to boost awareness / involvement
• Community and L.E. Task Force
• Phone tree and information sharing initiative
• Neighborhood watch
• Acquired two municipal grants for lighting and
  stray animals

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Success Measures

• Improving the quality of life
• QOL survey
• 72 Improvement
• Swipe technology
• 24 to 27 to 14
• Leadership interviews
• Quantitative measures

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Success Measures

• Improving their quality of life
• Number of probationers living in the area
• ER admissions from the area by zip
• Ambulance runs from the area
• School stability rates
• Business licenses issued and relinquished
• Sales tax receipts
• Number of known drug traffickers living in the
  area
• Number of CPS removals
• Pharmacy activity
• Number of abatements due to meth / drug issues

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Success Measures

• Unanticipated Accomplishments
• Pueblo HS students engaged in our ad campaign
• Neighborhood JR. H.S. engaged in teacher training
  programs to minimize gang violence at and round
  the school.
• School sponsored awareness campaigns / events
• External awards and recognition

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Recommendations

• Having a strong and active neighborhood
  association in the target area is critical to the
  success of the community based approach.
• Establish a sub-initiative to train neighborhood
  leadership.
• Ensure leadership transitions and succession
  planning.
• Ongoing management of the program should occur at
  three levels. (Neighborhood, Project, Oversight
  Committee)

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Recommendations

• Hire a full time facilitator for the first year
• Adopt an immediate posture of over communicating
• Publicity and public comment should be staged as
  part of the kickoff event.
• Encourage residents to ID underlying problems
  causal to the neighborhoods decline.
• Use crime analysis and local intelligence to
  clearly identify the problems / issues and
  resources that exist in the area.

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Recommendations

• Monitor the environment in real time
• Prevent scope creep
• Measure progress with evidence instead of
  defining outcomes from subjective observations
• Employ education / intervention program at local
  schools
• Employ a high profile business outreach program

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Recommendations

• The L.E. theatre of operations shall travel
  beyond the project area borders to address any
  issue that impacts the project area.
• The conclusion of the project phase serves as the
  beginning of the monitoring and technical
  assistance phase.

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Cornerstones

• Empower capable people instead of rescuing
  victims.
• Build on the Strengths of Residents to Implement
  Meaningful Strategies and Interventions
• Sustainability When the Residents Can..
• Identify their own problems
• Prioritize them for achievability
• Create a joint response strategy
• Resource that strategy
• Implement the plan
• Follow through

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Meth Free Alliance 82 S. Stone Ave Tucson AZ
85701 520-792-3293 Turning the corner_at_gmail.com
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