Brockton
The following provides a general overview of the 2009 Brockton CSI effort (as described in their application for grant funds).PROBLEM:
During the first year of Shannon CSI, Brockton reported 708 gang related incidents, 49% of which were drug offenses, 38% involved firearms, and 13% involved other types of crime.
Of the 708 incidents, 76% of offenders were identified by police, with 72 repeat offenders committing 23% of the crime.
Homicides have increased with most victims being youth ages 16-25.
Most of the offenders were 24 years of age or younger.
Brockton police department will:
1. Maintain police overtime to fully investigate gang incidents and suppress further criminal activity.
2. Utilize strategic ride-alongs to proactively address gang activity and prevent violent crime.
3. Fully implement COMPSTAT, a data driven approach that incorporates crime analysis that will provide data and mapping to indicate crime trends, new activity, and potential new approaches to problems.
Brockton service providers will:
1. Assist families of youth on identified gang list to provide assessments, wraparound case management, mental health and crisis counseling, out-of-school programs for both family members and identified youth.
2. Use a prevention coordinator/school-based liaison to identify 100 at-risk youth for prevention and intervention activities for youth ages 12-24.
3. Hire up to 4 street outreach workers to contact gang and high-risk youth, mediate future misunderstandings, and make referrals.
4. Provide older youth with one-on-one career counseling and work readiness workshops to help prepare for employment, agencies will also work with employers and employment agencies to match participants with job openings and paid internships.
5. Use social workers will respond to children that are victims and/or witnesses to violent crime to refer them to medical and psychiatric services.
6. Compose community focus groups to help provide a more complete picture of gang activity and youth violence in the city, current resources available, and potential solutions to the leadership of the Brockton CSI.