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allocation of dollars to capital improvements projects, both on an annual <br />and long range basis, P/ith the obvious restraint upon available revenues, <br />expenditures must be made on the basis of the most far reaching impact upon <br />all problem areas of the City. <br /> <br />Crime Prevention C~uission Report <br /> <br /> The data presented in relation to the overall findings and recom- <br />mendations of the citizen's coranission did show some interesting, yet anti- <br />cipated, relationships with the results of this housing study. The Crime/ <br />Calls-For-Service Density Map, even though using a different geographical <br />basis than this study for depicting infomation, showed a relationship be- <br />tween target areas and census tracts with either housing or socio-economic <br />problems. The quarter mile square grids indicated that target area locations <br />had greater incidence of police service calls, crime reports and arrests <br />than surrounding grids. The areas of mast concentrated activity roughly <br />simulated the pattern shown for Housing Problem Areas and Target Areas <br />identified by this document. There did appear to be a greater spill-over <br />into adjacent areas where the analysis had not indicated the existence of <br />physical housing blight. Even though this information is not sufficiently <br />exacting to allow a concrete statement of relationship between poor housing <br />and crime rates, it does support the findings of the interrelated nature <br />of social, econe~ic and physical deterioration problems. The Commission <br />Report Map again showed the pattern of greater intensity of problems in the <br />central portions of Santa Ana, with the relative lesser problem areas on the <br />perimeter o£ the City. <br /> <br /> The continual interrelated nature of social and economic problems <br />with substandard living environments shows that no singular solution will <br />ultimately be effective. Crime prevention programs and intensification of <br />activities are indicated in the interest of protection to people and property. <br />However, its effectiveness alone is only a stop-gap measure until further <br />population pressures, decaying social and economic conditions and deteriora- <br />tion of the physical c~,,aonity once again make prevention measures inadequate <br />for increases in the crime rate. <br /> <br />00003 <br /> <br /> <br />