Lib Ideas Cutting Homicides, Enviro-Dumping

hhttp://www.tampagov.net/dept_mayor/files/Buckhorn_Plan_safestreets.pdf and http://www2.tbo.com/news/news/2012/jan/02/homicides-drop-slightly-in-hillsborough-in-2011-ar-342674/ US Homicides even when low are higher than many countries. Libs have pushed tools in those countries such as voluntary policing and community watches, and focusing on actual offenses (not lifestyle ones) and thus community knowledge of those like or in the past who’ve committed violent offenses. Hillsborough Florida (a scalable population of ~1MM) has cut crime 30% since 2003 by “…Police have said that since the department’s crime-reduction plan went into effect in 2003, the city has averaged 27 homicides a year….Hillsborough deputies investigated 35 homicides last year, compared with 44 in 2010, a 20 percent decrease….In part, deputies credit the reduction to their intelligence-led policing efforts, which began in 2008. The sheriff’s office focuses on the few people in Hillsborough County who commit the most crimes…” also http://www.epa.gov/region4/rcra/bflr/2011bfgranteeworkshop/818-1130-100lunchpanel/epagranteeworkhsop-tampaprogram.pdf with a government grant to do the obvious, pollution dumping aliong with crimes are being cut 2/3rds.

Key items according to Buckhorn plan to conyinue efforts: proactive community policing, volunteer watches aided by focus on ‘broken window’ indicators such as auto theft (which leads to larger problems0, and co-rdination of previously balkanized  departments to track those most likely to offend.

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