Reduce crime and improve feelings of safety through long term efforts such as:
- Improving design regulations to maximize crime prevention through appropriate urban design,
- Developing community-based activities, programs, and facilities that reduce crime and develop life skills, such as after school and youth diversion programs and facilities for recreation and educational support (e.g., tutoring, homework help, etc.),
- Encouraging more compact development to increase effectiveness of individual officers by ensuring less travel time and more engagement,
- Implementing a “good landlord” program,
- Exploring enhancements to police operations such as:
- Committing to a certain number of officers per capita and/or per square mile of urbanized area,
- Increasing patrols (automobile, bicycle, or on foot) in targeted areas,
- Evaluating needs on a regular basis for increasing the number of key positions, such as detectives, to meet demands,
- Coordinating neighborhood improvement efforts (such as the Strong Neighborhoods Initiative and the Vacant and Abandoned Buildings program) with policing efforts, and
- Supporting efforts to obtain more effective criminal justice law, such as stricter gang laws.