OPERATION T.B.O.N.E.A STORY OF SUCCESS

PRELUDEPRELUDE

Shortly after taking office, Mayor Cedric Glover holds a series of Town Hall Meetings.

Overwhelming message from citizens was to attack crime as well as the decay that had plagued several of the city’s neighborhoods. Specific concerns included:

Shots fired Loud music Littering Abandon Vehicles Vacant Properties Loitering Curfew/Truancy

“BROKEN WINDOW” THEORY“BROKEN WINDOW” THEORY

Accumulated trash, broken windows, deteriorated building exteriors, overgrown lots, open-air drug sales, prostitution, etc.

People who live and work in the area feel more vulnerable and begin to withdraw.

They become less willing to intervene to maintain public order.

Offenders become bolder.

Residents become yet more fearful and withdraw further from community involvement and upkeep.

This atmosphere then attracts offenders from outside the area, who sense that it has become a vulnerable and less risky site for crime.

SOLUTIONSSOLUTIONS

Launched on July 1, 2007, TBONE is a comprehensive crime fighting, property standards and quality-of-life initiatives.

Mobilizes the police force, property standards inspectors and other city resources to work with citizens to take control of neighborhoods in each police district of the city.

Approved and embraced by the Shreveport City Council, TBONE has done this in a number or ways, which include targeting code violators, drug dealers, loiterers and wanted criminals.

TBONE immediately allowed the Chief of Police to increase the number of Community Policing Officers from 6 to 12 – one for each of the city’s 12 neighborhood police districts.

Community Liaison Officers (CLOs) were paired with Property Standards Inspectors (PSIs) to work with citizens, businesses and neighborhood groups to clean up urban blight and crime.

Strategically placed within their respective police districts, each CLO and PSI was assigned a city cell phone, which citizens can call day or night to talk about problems and concerns within their community.

Emphasis is placed on basic quality-of-life issues and lower priority “nuisance” crimes.

COMMUNITY LIAISON OFFICERS/PROPERTY STANDARDS INSPECTORS

COMMUNITY LIAISON OFFICERS/PROPERTY STANDARDS INSPECTORS

OPERATION CLOSED MARKETOPERATION CLOSED MARKET

Operation Closed Market periodically adds officers who are assigned to duties other than patrol – such as detectives and administrators -- back on the streets to address specific crime issues.

Administrative personnel divided into three Enforcement Teams (13-15 members each)

Each team supported by a team of detectives

Once spikes, hot spots and other problematic crime issues are identified during weekly crime focus meetings, and countermeasures are developed, approximately 40 officers can be mobilized to augment street patrol.

Highly successful, so far, more than 130 criminals have been arrested as part of Operation Closed Market.

Campaign to reduce shootings by encouraging citizens to help the police find and arrested criminals with illegal guns.

$200 reward for criminals arrested with illegal handgun

$500 reward for criminals arrested with illegal assault rifle

Citizens remain anonymous by using Crime Stoppers hot line to report criminals with illegal guns

DON’T SHOOT…I WANT TO GROW UPDON’T SHOOT…I WANT TO GROW UP

STOP INTRUSIONS & GATHERINGS NOW (S.I.G.N.)STOP INTRUSIONS & GATHERINGS NOW (S.I.G.N.)

Crime fighting effort to deter unwanted weekend and late night loitering at businesses by teenagers and young adults.

Community and law enforcement partnership.

Business owners sign a Trespass Affidavit for their locations throughout the city.

Once a business enrolls in the program, the Shreveport Police Department is able to better assist in controlling unwanted loitering on the business property.

NO TRESPASSINGALL VIOLATORS WILL

BE PROSECUTED

TRESPASS AFFIDAVIT ON

ON FILE WITH SHREVEPORT

POLICE DEPARTMENT

ORDINANCE 40 OF 1989

SECTION 50-86 OF THE

SHREVEPORT CITY CODE

SIGN NUMBER _________

FREE BEERFREE BEER

Public awareness campaign to combat high number of preventable auto burglaries.

Joint partnership with Downtown Development Authority, launch at downtown restaurants and bars.

Tent cards and posters placed in establishments to remind citizens to secure their valuables.

Soon to expand throughout the city via electronic billboards.

VIDEO SURVEILLANCEVIDEO SURVEILLANCE

Tactical deployment of cameras to monitor and combat emerging crime issues identified during weekly Crime Focus meetings.

Deployed throughout downtown area and monitored at Shreveport Police Kiosk to enhance public safety.

Police contact with existing and planned businesses to advise and assist with the deployment of effective video surveillance equipment.

Rather than having commanders over entire shifts, the Area Concept will allow those commanders to focus on parts of their areas that need attention.

Efficiency. Having officers focus on smaller areas can help them be more efficient at patrolling the city and targeting problem areas.

Effectiveness. Officers will be able to resolve more issues affecting a particular area because they are intimately familiar with the citizens in those areas.

Accountability. Officers who are responsible for one particular area become accountable for things that occur there.

Ownership. Officers are given ownership of a geographic location, which makes it easier for them to create partnerships with that particular community or area.

AREA CONCEPTAREA CONCEPT

RESULTS – PROPERTY STANDARDSRESULTS – PROPERTY STANDARDS

JULY 06 JUNE 07

JULY 07JUNE 08

DIFFERENCE

Demolitions 218 285 + 31%

Asbestos Removed 31 61 + 97%

Care of Premises 56 458 + 718%

Inoperable Vehicle Tows 132 448 + 239%

Property Securing 6 121 + 1,917%

Weed Abatement-Private 6,266 826 - 87%

Weed Abatement-Adjudicated

1,514 11,869 + 684%

Citations on Court Docket 25 60 + 140%BEFORE /

AFTER

RESULTS – PART I VIOLENT CRIMERESULTS – PART I VIOLENT CRIME

JULY 06 JUNE 07

JULY 07JUNE 08

DIFFERENCE

Homicides 42 29 - 31%

Rape 124 112 - 10%

Person Robbery 446 411 - 8%

Business Robbery 122 104 - 15%

Aggravated Battery 734 692 - 6%

Aggravated Assaults 770 676 - 12%

RESULTS – PART I PROPERTY CRIMERESULTS – PART I PROPERTY CRIME

JULY 06 JUNE 07

JULY 07JUNE 08

DIFFERENCE

Residential Burglary 2,209 2,100 - 5%

Business Burglary 808 593 - 27%

Purse Snatching 46 37 - 20%

Shoplifting 1,796 2,019 + 12%

Business Theft 768 819 +7%

Residential Theft 1,798 1,660 - 8%

Auto Accessory Theft 406 433 + 7%

Theft from Auto 2,322 1,781 - 23%

Theft General 1,291 1,177 - 7 %

Auto Theft 1,288 928 - 28%

RESULTS – TOTAL PART I CRIMERESULTS – TOTAL PART I CRIME

JULY 06

JUNE 07

JULY 07

JUNE 08

DIFFERENCE

Total Part I Violent Crime(Homicide, Rape, Robbery, and

Assault/Battery)2,238 2,024 - 10%

Total Part I Property Crime(Burglary, Purse Snatching, Shoplifting, Thefts and Auto

Theft)

12,732 11,547 - 9%

Total Part I Crime 14,970 13,571 - 9%