Community Policing

The site requested to meet with Aqeela Sherills to discuss community engagement. IACP will follow up on this request.

The site is interested in speaking with Aqeela Sherills, to discuss community engagement and collaboration with the Police. IACP will follow up on this request.

IACP sent out a mass mailing announcing the Credible Messengers: Violence Prevention and COVID-19 webinar.

IACP offered to set up a call with Aqeela Sherills to discuss community engagement. The site expressed interest in taking advantage of this opportunity at some point.

During regular LISC conversations with CBCR site leadership, we have noticed that sites benefit greatly when hearing about safety strategies from their peers. Specifically, program coordinators (PC) found it beneficial when they spoke with one another. Through monthly PC peer networking calls, LISC wants to increase opportunities for PCs to interact with the full complement of their CBCR peers.

LeVar Michael recently attended a PTACC (Police, Treatment, And Community Collaborative) convening. PTACC’s work is focused on developing ways to divert opioid related drug offenders from the criminal justice system and instead explore pathways to sobriety. LISC will be using these connections to help think through resource provision to sites addressing opioid and open-air drug market challenges.

On January 30th, John Connelly led a panel session with Tom Wyatt (Program Coordinator for Flint’s first CBCR site) for the New York Housing Stabilization Fund sites. The panel, Supporting Collaborative Approaches for Safe Places spoke about the importance of developing community-police problem solving teams as a part of their revitalization strategies. John and Tom highlighted the work of Flint’s CBCR efforts around addressing blight by focusing on vacant residential properties, CPTED, Creative Placemaking and community outreach.

IACP hosted the FY18 Grantee Meeting in St. Louis. All FY18 sites were in attendance. The event contained Webinars, pannel discussions, and time for sites to meet and greet.

Site requested help from Claudia Gross-Shader with creating a Resource Hub. Claudia provided resources and IACP facilitated a dialogue,

Matt Perkins of LISC and SME Donna Griffin joined Trention (NJ) Police Department Directo Sheilah Coley and Dr. Alejandro Gimenez-Santana of Rutgers University to present on place-based appraoches to safety including the federal CBCR program and approach general with a case study provided of the Philadelphia (Mantua) CBCR effort.