NCJ Number
178560
Date Published
1998
Length
74 pages
Annotation
The Seattle, Washington, Police Department coordinated the development of an overall program strategy and engaged other organizations to implement the Comprehensive Communities Program (CCP), and the case study of Seattle's CCP approach is based on site visits to various CCP projects and interviews with CCP participants between September 1995 and December 1996
Abstract
The CCP consortium involved both city agencies and community-based organizations and received funding for a broad range of projects that meshed easily with established programs and organizational structures. During the first year of the CCP, the police department finalized its plan for transforming to support community policing. The police department used its share of CCP funds to support a training program that featured problem- oriented strategies and a citizen advisory group. In particular, substantial CCP funds were committed to partner agencies with whom the police department had an expanding relationship. These funds extended the scope of existing services to support one-time projects and to build organizational infrastructure. Both the police department and partner agencies aimed to develop CCP projects that would be sustainable within existing resource constraints or that could be terminated without disruption. The case study includes information on new developments and issues in CCP, synergistic effects of CCP, and CCP sustainment. Appendixes contain supplemental information on CCP projects in Seattle and the network analysis strategy used at CCP sites. 9 references, 1 table, and 2 figures