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OPERATION T.B.O.N.E. A STORY OF SUCCESS. PRELUDE. Shortly after taking office, Mayor Cedric Glover holds a series of Town Hall Meetings.
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OPERATION T.B.O.N.E. A STORY OF SUCCESS
PRELUDE • Shortly after taking office, Mayor Cedric Glover holds a series of Town Hall Meetings. • Overwhelming message from citizens was to attack crime as well as the decay that had plagued several of the city’s neighborhoods. Specific concerns included: • Shots fired • Loud music • Littering • Abandon Vehicles • Vacant Properties • Loitering • Curfew/Truancy
“BROKEN WINDOW” THEORY • Accumulated trash, broken windows, deteriorated building exteriors, overgrown lots, open-air drug sales, prostitution, etc. • People who live and work in the area feel more vulnerable and begin to withdraw. • They become less willing to intervene to maintain public order. • Offenders become bolder. • Residents become yet more fearful and withdraw further from community involvement and upkeep. • This atmosphere then attracts offenders from outside the area, who sense that it has become a vulnerable and less risky site for crime.
SOLUTIONS • Launched on July 1, 2007, TBONE is a comprehensive crime fighting, property standards and quality-of-life initiatives. • Mobilizes the police force, property standards inspectors and other city resources to work with citizens to take control of neighborhoods in each police district of the city. • Approved and embraced by the Shreveport City Council, TBONE has done this in a number or ways, which include targeting code violators, drug dealers, loiterers and wanted criminals. • TBONE immediately allowed the Chief of Police to increase the number of Community Policing Officers from 6 to 12 – one for each of the city’s 12 neighborhood police districts.
COMMUNITY LIAISON OFFICERS/PROPERTY STANDARDS INSPECTORS • Community Liaison Officers (CLOs) were paired with Property Standards Inspectors (PSIs) to work with citizens, businesses and neighborhood groups to clean up urban blight and crime. • Strategically placed within their respective police districts, each CLO and PSI was assigned a city cell phone, which citizens can call day or night to talk about problems and concerns within their community. • Emphasis is placed on basic quality-of-life issues and lower priority “nuisance” crimes.
OPERATION CLOSED MARKET • Operation Closed Market periodically adds officers who are assigned to duties other than patrol – such as detectives and administrators -- back on the streets to address specific crime issues. • Administrative personnel divided into three Enforcement Teams (13-15 members each) • Each team supported by a team of detectives • Once spikes, hot spots and other problematic crime issues are identified during weekly crime focus meetings, and countermeasures are developed, approximately 40 officers can be mobilized to augment street patrol. • Highly successful, so far, more than 130 criminals have been arrested as part of Operation Closed Market.
DON’T SHOOT…I WANT TO GROW UP • Campaign to reduce shootings by encouraging citizens to help the police find and arrested criminals with illegal guns. • $200 reward for criminals arrested with illegal handgun • $500 reward for criminals arrested with illegal assault rifle • Citizens remain anonymous by using Crime Stoppers hot line to report criminals with illegal guns
STOP INTRUSIONS & GATHERINGS NOW (S.I.G.N.) • Crime fighting effort to deter unwanted weekend and late night loitering at businesses by teenagers and young adults. • Community and law enforcement partnership. • Business owners sign a Trespass Affidavit for their locations throughout the city. • Once a business enrolls in the program, the Shreveport Police Department is able to better assist in controlling unwanted loitering on the business property. NO TRESPASSING ALL VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED TRESPASS AFFIDAVIT ON ON FILE WITH SHREVEPORT POLICE DEPARTMENT ORDINANCE 40 OF 1989 SECTION 50-86 OF THE SHREVEPORT CITY CODE SIGN NUMBER _________
FREE BEER • Public awareness campaign to combat high number of preventable auto burglaries. • Joint partnership with Downtown Development Authority, launch at downtown restaurants and bars. • Tent cards and posters placed in establishments to remind citizens to secure their valuables. • Soon to expand throughout the city via electronic billboards.
VIDEO SURVEILLANCE • Tactical deployment of cameras to monitor and combat emerging crime issues identified during weekly Crime Focus meetings. • Deployed throughout downtown area and monitored at Shreveport Police Kiosk to enhance public safety. • Police contact with existing and planned businesses to advise and assist with the deployment of effective video surveillance equipment.
AREA CONCEPT • Rather than having commanders over entire shifts, the Area Concept will allow those commanders to focus on parts of their areas that need attention. • Efficiency. Having officers focus on smaller areas can help them be more efficient at patrolling the city and targeting problem areas. • Effectiveness. Officers will be able to resolve more issues affecting a particular area because they are intimately familiar with the citizens in those areas. • Accountability. Officers who are responsible for one particular area become accountable for things that occur there. • Ownership. Officers are given ownership of a geographic location, which makes it easier for them to create partnerships with that particular community or area.
RESULTS – PROPERTY STANDARDS BEFORE / AFTER
