Abstract
Baltimore City was selected in 2013 as one of the initial recipient cities of the Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation (BCJI) grant. The focus neighborhood, McElderry Park, is located in east Baltimore. The approach for the BCJI grant involved community participation through a newly established advisory council, the McElderry Park Revitalization Coalition (MPRC), to better understand deep-rooted concerns that cause crime to persist in the neighborhood and to collaboratively formulate a multipronged approach to addressing these issues. The Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance (BNIA) at the University of Baltimore (UB) served as an embedded research partner. A community-driven planning process was conducted to develop a plan. The top five themes addressed in the plan included physical disorder, crime and safety, law enforcement relations and response, lack of employment, and lack of youth programs/activities. The three-pronged approach to the project, implemented by many different stakeholders in the neighborhood, led to effective outcomes.
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Notes
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All plans and reports for this grant are available online at www.bniajfi.org/currentprojects/bcji
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BNIA is the local partner in the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP), which is a learning network of over 30 cities across the United States convened by the Urban Institute. For more information, visit www.neighborhoodindicators.org
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ABC2News casts on October 21, 2017 – https://www.wmar2news.com/news/region/baltimore-city/baltimore-neighborhood-celebrates-one-year-of-being-homicide-free
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Data gathered and analyzed by the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance for the BCJI planning and implementation phase.
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Source: Baltimore City Police Department.
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See McElderry Park BCJI Plan for Crime Reduction for more details of the Year 1 planning process and outcomes: http://www.bniajfi.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/McElderry-Park-BCJI-Plan-Year-1-Final.pdf.
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For more information on the crime reduction search methodology and results, see L. Restivo and A. Cantora “McElderry Park Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Evidence-Based Crime Reduction Strategies” http://bniajfi.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Evidence-Based-Programs-and-Practices_Final.pdf
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A full report on the results of Year 2 implementation can be found online “McElderry Park Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Grant Final Report for Year 2 Funding (2014–2015)” http://www.bniajfi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/BCJI%20Year%202%20Report%20FINAL.pdf.
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Data Visualization of businesses hit by vandalism during the Baltimore uprising, Baltimore Sun http://data.baltimoresun.com/news/vandalism-map/
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McElderry Park Data Viewer Walkthrough (video resource) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZqaRfJSQoc
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This project was supported by Grant No. 2012-AJ-BX-0014 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Iyer, S., Knott, C., Cantora, A. (2020). Community-Based Empowerment, Collective Efficacy, and Collaborative Data-Sharing: Key Elements for Crime Reduction Planning in Baltimore. In: Stokes, R., Gill, C. (eds) Innovations in Community-Based Crime Prevention. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43635-3_2
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