Adding cops increases containment, but it does nothing for safety. That takes much smarter community coalition strategies and investment.
185 violent gang crimes were prevented over that two-year period, with a citywide savings of $110 million., professional gang prevention services were found to reduce participants’ risk of joining a gang by 83% and reduced antisocial tendencies by 71%.and conducted qualitative research as well, found that LAPD’s specially trained Community Safety Partnership officers, with civilian and other government colleagues, saved the cityin tangible and intangible costs at just two CSP sites.
Notably, these CSP successes have continued during the pandemic amid nationwide increases in violent crime. According to LAPD Deputy Chief Emada Tingirides, head of the Community Safety Partnership Bureau, as of Nov. 26, data from all 10 partnership sites shows that residents and police achieved reductions of 75% in homicides and 10.8% in aggravated assaults in 2022.
These holistic strategies aren’t perfect and they aren’t easy or cheap to implement in traditional, enforcer-culture police departments. But the return on investment exceeds the costs, and collaborative efforts can finally deliver what the Christopher Commission, organized in the aftermath of the Rodney King beating, demanded more than 30 years ago for Los Angeles: real community policing.Gang interventionists have long been on the front lines of Los Angeles’ fight against gang violence.
The size of a police force is not irrelevant to crime reduction, but we will get more bang for the buck if we expand by spending our dollars on neighborhood teams of community partners, CSP-trained officers and experts who can execute holistic safety plans in hot zones.
As we add officers to the LAPD, let’s fortify the department’s commitment to public trust, revitalize its reform efforts and concentrate our investment in Community Safety Partnership teams.Connie Rice, a former member of President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, is a civil rights attorney and author of “Power Concedes Nothing.”
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