National Evaluation of Weed and Seed

By Travis, Jeremy

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Title:	National Evaluation of Weed and Seed
Author:	Travis, Jeremy
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Language:	English
Subject:	Law., Law & economy, Litigation and arbitration
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Publisher:	Department of Justice


Citation APA MLA Chicago Travis, J. (n.d.). National Evaluation of Weed and Seed. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

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Acknowledgements: We would like to acknowledge the valuable contributions of a number of participants in the Las Vegas Weed and Seed effort, including Bobby Siller, former FBI Special Agent in Charge; Kathryn Landreth, U.S. Attorney; Jerry Keller, Sheriff, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department; Richard Winget, Undersheriff, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department; Franklin Simpson, Weed and Seed Program Manager; and March Theede, Cooperative Extension, University of Nevada-Reno. Special thanks is extended to Robin Skone-Palmer of the U.S. Attorney?s office and to Lt. Jim Dillon of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, without whose assistance this project could not have been completed. The authors of this case study would also like to acknowledge the cooperation of Corrine Digilio, Meadows Village Seed Coordinator, and Cynthia Sanders, West Las Vegas Seed Coordinator, who provided information and assisted in arranging site visits. The authors would also like to thank Mayor Jan Jones for facilitating interaction with the city office.

Table of Contents
Contents Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2.0 Case Study Objective and Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3.0 Site History and Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.1 City Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.2 Target Area Characteristics and Nature of Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.3 Other Funding Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.0 Program Structure and Chronology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.1 Formal Organization and Structure for Weed and Seed Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.2 Proposed Goals and Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.3 Budget Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4.4 Information Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4.5 Site Monitoring, Reporting, and Local Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 5.0 Key Implementation Issues and Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 5.1 Role of Grantee Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 5.2 Management Structure and Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 5.3 Local Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 5.4 Operational Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 5.5 Approach to Weeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5.6 Approach to Community Policing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 5.7 Approach to Seeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 5.8 Concluding Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 6.0 Effects of Weed and Seed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 6.1 Analysis of Crime Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 6.2 Survey of Community Residents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 7.0 Future Directions and Degree of Institutionalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51