NCJ Number
150410
Date Published
1989
Length
85 pages
Annotation
This futures study examines the role of middle-sized California law enforcement agencies in organized youth programs by the year 2000.
Abstract
A panel of eight professionals selected five salient trends, including increasing population growth, increasing breakdown of families, declining quality of public education, decreasing government priority on youth programs, and increasing juvenile drug and alcohol abuse. The futures study was also based on five probable events: mandatory imprisonment for juvenile crimes, a reversal in California Proposition 13, reinstitution of the Federal draft, mandatory State and county funding of youth programs, and urban youth riots. Recommendations for attaining the normative and desirable scenario include establishing a multiagency youth programs unit; encouraging the establishment of an organized youth programs unit within the local city government, staffed by civilians and assisted by the police; encouraging police financial and physical involvement in youth programs; and establishing a youth programs unit within the police department staffed by sworn and nonsworn personnel. A transition management plan and strategic plan are presented in this report. 12 figures and 7 appendixes