Crime Policy

The major approaches for preventing and handling crime in youths, are after school programs like camping trips where they get to bond with other kids and their counselors get to know them better and work with them personally to help them with their problems. The church is another approach in preventing crime by engaging youths in group meetings with other youths and parents to aid them in changing their troublesome views of life into better ones. Also there are youth sports where it encourages team work, leadership opportunities, and chance to meet other people from other cultures. Community based programs where they can socially interact with one another and discuss their problems and fears. 

The police force can handle neighborhoods by implementing a community policing model that is more focused on individuals in the community by interacting and getting them involved in public safety. The police can also implement rehabilitative programs for those charged with lesser crimes as an alternative to jail time for those who want a second chance. Also police can work with community leaders and hear their ideas on how they can cooperate together to create answers to problems. 

The law SB 1474 harms the objectives of police because it will allow, if passed, for students to carry weapons on campus whether they are trained or not. This can jeopardize the life of everyone on campus because in a critical situation police won’t be able to tell the difference between the suspects and the victims. The SB 1070 law will cause harm by negatively affecting police efforts in working with the community by creating mistrust between the Hispanic community and the police.

Housing and Economic Development

The strengths of my city are first the land that is available for new businesses is located in the downtown area of the city which is where all the citizens go to the restaurants, shopping, and have a few drinks and fun at the clubs. The five star hotels around are of extreme luxury, you’ll get treated like a king/queen. The land available has many resources around it which is; water & electricity, the airport, the light rail, and the freeway just a few blocks away. There is also a lot of recreation in this area for example, you can go jog at the park or play a sport in the green fields of the park. I would propose to the city council that it will benefit the city if new businesses open here like bring more revenue to fix messed up streets and make the city greener and help improve more the economy. The citizens of the communities around the downtown area will also benefit from the more variety of businesses and job opportunities.

I would consider applying for a HOPE VI grant for my city because this would help those families in need that don’t have a place to live or cannot afford a house. My thought about the program are that it is a good way to provide families with a place they can call home. It’s nice what the program did to those families that lived in the Mathew Henson community and the HOPE VI should continue to do that with other communities around that may need a better living house. The impact that I see it having for low income residents is that they will have a better house to live in and for the community at large it will make it look much better in regard to poor housing and poverty.