ORANGE, COUNTY OF, SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT (5) - 2013

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ATTACI3MENT A 2013 -DJ -BX -1065 City: Stanton The City of Stanton proposes to use the 2013 Justice Assistance Grant funding as follows: Purpose Areas: Law enforcement The City of Stanton is a diverse community presenting unique challenges for law enforcement. A large Hispanic immigrant population and the resulting language barrier can cause a gap between residents, businesses and law enforcement providers. In many cases immigrant residents are fearful of police due to their inunigration status. Stanton is home to several active criminal street gangs which use fear and intimidation of residents as a method for ensuring many crimes are never reported to police. Through implementation of community policing practices we intend to increase awareness and positive interaction among residents, business owners and law enforcement in a community effort to reduce crime. Reducing crimes against persons and businesses will help ensure that the City of Stanton has an active and flourishing business community supported by its residents. It is a commonly recognized fact that public support is necessary for business to flourish. This is also the case for police effectiveness in accomplishing their core mission of preventing crime. Building relationships with the public increases police legitimacy and affects how well they can control crime. Program Narrative: To increase law enforcement presence in the community. Use of overtime to place personnel into problem areas of the City, either on foot, bicycle or patrol car. Their efforts will be directed to combat a growing graffiti, gang, prostitution, and other crime problems. This will be done in an effort to reduce crime and blight in the City of Stanton. Staff will determine target areas for which personnel will utilize crimes and calls for service data and work with the OCSD Crime analysis unit to patrol during times that have higher activity levels. The target areas will be chosen based upon level of calls for service, citizen complaints, Part I and II crimes. The type of area will also determine the type of patrol to be used, certain high density housing areas will use either foot or bicycle patrol. Larger sprawling gang areas may require a vehicle. Goals of the project: It is our intent to approach every community in Stanton in the next 12 months and direct personnel to combat or eliminate their specific problem(s) whether it is graffiti, loitering, illegal drug activity, prostitution, public alcohol consumption or otherwise. We are also working with the City of Stanton to determine enforcement and presence needs during their upcoming community events. Strategies to be used for project: Community policing efforts are already underway in Stanton. Previous JAG and other grant funding has allowed us to implement a gang education and prevention program in our local schools and to conducted limited neighborhood and business watch activities. Currently funds are limited for targeting specific areas that are experiencing increased vandalism /graffiti and increased complaints. 2013 -DJ -BX -1065 Page 26 of 29