The Seattle police department, “with considerable public input, coordinated the development of an overall program strategy and engaged other organizations to implement pieces of the Comprehensive Communities Program (CCP). The CCP consortium involved both city agencies and community-based organizations. They received funding for a broad range of projects that meshed easily with the established programs and organizational structures.
During the first year of CCP, the police department finalized its plan for transforming to support community policing. Police used their share of CCP funds to support a training program that featured the problemoriented strategies they planned to adopt, and to launch a new citizen advisory group. A large percentage of the city’s CCP funds were committed to partner agencies with whom the police have an expanding relationship.
These funds extended the scope of existing services to support one-time projects and to build organizational infrastructure. Both the police and their partner agencies strove to develop CCP projects that would be sustainable within existing resource constraints, or could be terminated without disruption.
This case study of Seattle’s CCP program was written as a result of site visits made to various CCP programs and interviews with CCP participants between September, 1995 and December, 1996. It also incorporates data from BOTEC’s CCP Coalition Survey and Community Policing Survey, as well as information contained in federal and local documents and reports. Follow-up phone calls were made during December, 1997 and January, 1998, to key participants in order to write the epilogue.”
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http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/204629.pdf
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