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Crime and Violence in Highland Park: A comparative Analysis

Crime and Violence in Highland Park: A comparative Analysis. Lindsey Foss, Dudley Versaci , Rachel Wildfeuer , and Dan Colosimo. Crime Incident Reports: 1/23/2008- 2/23/2009. Highland Park. Gilpin Court. Stony Point. Possible Root Causes of Crime in Highland Park.

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Crime and Violence in Highland Park: A comparative Analysis

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  1. Crime and Violence in Highland Park: A comparative Analysis Lindsey Foss, Dudley Versaci, Rachel Wildfeuer, and Dan Colosimo

  2. Crime Incident Reports: 1/23/2008- 2/23/2009 Highland Park Gilpin Court Stony Point

  3. Possible Root Causes of Crimein Highland Park • Lack of Family structure • Lack of Education • Joblessness • Liquor Stores (Vice)

  4. Ex-Offenders Are Released in Areas Where Family Structure Is Already Weak

  5. Percent of Families that are Headed by Single Mothers by Census Block, 2000 Lack of family stability (indicated by high amount of single-parent households) is associated with crime involvement. www.socialexplorer.com

  6. Few Ex-Offenders Have Any College Education, and They are Released to Areas Where Education Levels are Already Low

  7. Percent of Residents with Less Than a High School Degree by Census Block, 2000 www.socialexplorer.com

  8. Comparison of West End and Northside areas of Richmond Statistics from Boaz & Ruth

  9. Ex-Offenders Are Released in Areas Where Unemployment is High

  10. Percent of Residents who are Unemployed by Census Block, 2000 Unemployment can contribute to involvement in the underground economy or can by attributed to a history of incarceration. www.socialexplorer.com

  11. Most Ex-Offenders Have a History of Work It is interesting to note that most ex-offenders have work experience, debunking the culture of poverty thesis.

  12. Ex-Offenders tend to be released in areas with a high amount of Liquor Stores Liquor stores could indicate lack of community cohesion to keep liquor stores out, and could also contribute to substance abuse problems leading to a cycle of recidivism.

  13. Offender Release in Virginia • In 2002, of the 724 individuals released by the VA DOC, two-thirds (480) lived in the City of Richmond. • Within Richmond, half returned to just 15 percent of the City’s 163 Census block groups. This creates concentrated crime in Richmond

  14. Offenders are usually released into the communities that they are from. The high rate of ex-offenders in specific communities decreases the human capital of the area and can create a cycle of crime and incarceration.

  15. Richmond Crime Statistics Has Crime gone down in Richmond? 2005 2007 2008

  16. Incarceration in Virginia Virginia, with more than 39,000 inmates, is one of nine states where prison populations grew by more than 30 percent from 2000 to 2008. A recent study by The Pew Center on the States found that 1 in every 46 adult Virginians is in prison, jail or on probation or parole and that the state's corrections costs were $1.25 billion, or 7.6 percent of the state's general-fund spending for the year that ended last June. Each year the Richmond City Jail admits 22,000 inmates. The jail was built in 1964 (37 years ago) and designed to house 800 inmates. Today the weekly population is between 1,500 and 1,600. On weekends, the population increases to 1,800. The fourth largest in the state. Therefore, although crime in Richmond is decreasing, incarceration is still going up. In 2008, incarceration in Virginia increased 9%.

  17. Highland Park Vs. Gilpin Court • Gilpin Court-1339 total crime reports in 2006, which dropped to 1115 in 2008. -17% • Highland Park- 877 in 2006, which dropped to 556 in 2008. -37% • Perhaps policing tactics have worked better in an area less entrenched in a “culture of poverty.” • Highland Park is on the edge of chronic poverty and crime whereas Gilpin Court is completely entrenched

  18. Recent Change in Prison Population Is the decrease of crime in Highland Park reflecting a larger national trend?

  19. Why the Decline? • The RPD's innovative enterprise platform produced dramatic results. By moving from a "reactive crisis management structure" to a "proactive problem deference model," the department lowered the city's ranking from fifth most dangerous U.S. city in 2004 to 15th most dangerous city in 2005, and a 21 percent reduction in major crimes from 2005 to 2006. • GRIP (Gang Reduction & Intervention Program) was started in 2004, and now has multiple posts in and around Highland Park.

  20. Concluding Thoughts • What is the key to crime reduction? • Police action? • Community Involvement? • Economic Development? • Does the high rate of crime in Highland Park amount to a Culture of Poverty? Or is it a result of chronic underdevelopment and lack of resources?

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