You see here from this diagram that structure model structure.
This is one from Cincinnati's in ,Intervention that focuses on
trying to keep the players moving in the same direction and
organized around a common goal.
At the top you see a governing board so,
it is critical that you have the highest stake holders.
This would include individuals like the District Attorney, the Chief of Police.
Members of the African American community, if you've got a African American gang
problem, Hispanic community members if it's a Hispanic problem.
But these are the most respected, if you will, old heads in the community,
the faith leaders and the individuals often from
corporate sides that will be coming together to oversee the situation.
The governing board is like the, the board of directors in a corporation so
the idea here is to have the people that have overall responsibility to
break down barriers that arise and will inevitably arise between the thousands of
moving parts that are arrayed below.
Next you have the, strategy and implementation team.
The role of this group, is to develop and deploy strategy get resources,
monitor results and make key decisions.
This is the operational, heart of the, the strategy.
The idea here is, you're going to have mid-level managers, for
example, within law enforcement, community prosecutors,
if you have community prosecutors in place, and your service providers.
So, in effect, it's going to be the, the upper echelon of the, the boxes below.
Below, you see four different boxes.
First you have the enforcement team.
This is going to be comprised of usually tactical units within a police department
that are going to be allocated to specifically combat the problem.
You may have some community police officers in this depending on what
sort of arrangement you have.
Next, the service team is going to be a comprehensive group of service providers.
The goal here is to have a plan, and
a comprehensive set of providers that can deal with the very
difficult situation that is getting active gang member out of the gang lifestyle.
So this would include educational opportunities, occupational opportunities,
mental health, substance abuse providers faith leaders,
a whole host of wraparound services that you are going to need to do case by case,
to get individuals housing life skills, all of that which is needed to,
to turn someone around from that very hardened, hardcore offending lifestyle.
Next, you have the community team.
This is comprised of outreach workers, almost universally in,
in the focus deterrence model.
They rely on community members that are hired and or volunteer outreach workers.
These would be ex-gang members, ex-offenders, ex-hardcore offenders that
are well versed in walking the walk and talking the talk and have street
credibility to speak to directly and honestly and frankly to the gang members.
You would also have crime victims here mothers of slain gang members faith
leaders that group of individuals are going to be apart of the community team,
that are charged with representing the community's interest.
And then the systems team as it's referred to up in Cincinnati,
is largely comprised of your research partners, your academics