INC NEWS - Durham's Gang Assessment Now Available

[Blalock, Amy]

CITY OF DURHAM

Office of Public Affairs

101 City Hall Plaza

Durham, NC 27701

 

 

News Release

 

For Details, Contact:

Amy C. Blalock

Senior Public Affairs Specialist

(919) 560-4123 x 253

(919) 475-7735 (cell)

Amy.Blalock at durhamnc.gov <mailto:Amy.Blalock at durhamnc.gov> 

 

For Immediate Release:  December 20, 2007

 

 

Durham's Comprehensive Gang Assessment Report Now Available Online

 

Durham, N.C. - Earlier today, members from both the Durham City Council
and the Durham County Board of County Commissioners received a
Comprehensive Gang Assessment Report and adopted a strategy to address
the gang-related problems in the City of Durham and Durham County based
on the report's recommendations.

 

The report was jointly funded by the City of Durham Police Department
and the Durham County Sheriff's Office.  Authors Deborah Lamm Weisel,
director of Research on Policing with the School of Public and
International Affairs at N.C. State University, and James C. "Buddy"
Howell, a senior research associate with the National Youth Gang Center,
conducted the assessment and compiled a list of recommendations on how
the City and County should move forward.  

 

According to Weisel and Howell, the assessment followed the Guide to
Assessing Your Community's Youth Gang Problem, a model developed by the
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention and its National Youth Gang Center.  According to the report,
the assessment consisted of a systematic and comprehensive data
collection process, analysis and interpretation of findings, and
examination of the relationship or fit between documented gang-related
problems and existing programmatic responses employed by the community,
schools, service providers, and the criminal justice system.

 

After the presentation, the City and County adopted, in concept, a
three-tier strategy of prevention, intervention and suppression as
identified in the Comprehensive Gang Model.  They also directed both the
City and County Managers to move forward with implementing the
recommendations contained within the assessment report and that a
project coordinator is hired as soon as possible to spearhead the
anti-gang effort.  

 

They also directed that a steering committee be appointed to oversee the
implementation of the gang program; an intervention team be established
to develop procedures and protocol for addressing at-risk gang-involved
youth; and an in-house assessment team be appointed to work in concert
with N.C. Central University to accommodate on-going assessments.

 

To view the report in its entirety, visit the City of Durham Police
Department's Web site at www.durhampolice.com/news/pdf/071220_1.pdf. 

 

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