2010 Collaborative Supervision and Focused Enforcement (CSAFE) – Violence Prevention Initiative Grant Awarded to the City of Salisbury
Salisbury Mayor James Ireton, Jr. is pleased to announce that the City’s grant application for 2010 for the Church Street CSAFE-VPI initiative has been approved by the Governor’s Office of Crime Control & Prevention (GOCCP). The CSAFE program provides local jurisdictions additional resources to support the salaries for a Community Prosecutor and a Crime Data Analyst, and overtime for police, to target additional resources in the crime reduction effort.
The City of Salisbury’s CSAFE Program is a collaborative team concept administered by the City of Salisbury. The Community Prosecutor and Crime Analyst will serve both the Westside and Church Street CSAFE areas. The CSAFE program is an ongoing effort by the State to assist counties and municipalities in addressing problem issues in targeted high-crime neighborhoods.
The GOCCP has awarded CSAFE grant funds to the City for the Church Street area for the following projects:
Community Prosecutor / State’s Attorney’s Office…………………………..….$65,000
Crime Data Analyst / Salisbury Police Department……………………………..$35,406
School Resource Officer / Wicomico Middle School / Sheriff’s Dept…...….…. $10,039
Community Policing / Salisbury Police Department…………………….………$15,419
CSAFE Program Coordinator – Lead Coordinator / Mayor’s Office ...…………$21,845
Total Funds Awarded ……………………. $147,709
Mayor Ireton will be hosting a press conference on Friday, July 17, 2009, at 10:00 a.m., at 501 E. Church Street, in the parking lot of the Neighborhood Services and Code Compliance Department, to talk about the CSAFE program and other crime reduction initiatives underway.
For more information about the CSAFE-VPI program, please contact Loré L. Chambers, Assistant City Administrator, at 410-548-3100.
Thank God for this grant. This is sooooooooo needed right now. I have watched the East side dramatically deteriorate over the past year. I can only hope that they hire or promote people who hold this cause close to their heart. It won't be easy - WE NEED TO TAKE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS BACK!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis grant has been in place for several years now. The crime and quality-of-life issues have not gotten any better for most of the neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteThe CSAFE grant is not going to work without cooperation and input from the residents - and most of them do not want to get involved in any way with any program being administered by the city.
Interesting how the money breaks down. IMO its a bunch more money that wont do anything.
ReplyDeleteCan we get a grant for a new chief?
ReplyDeleteI've called the SPD so many times in the last three weeks I think they know my voice by now!
ReplyDeleteIt should of all went to the police.
ReplyDeleteAnother Jim-Beau boffo media event, no doubt.
ReplyDeleteOne-tick pony????
Joe, I just saw your two posts about the Safe Streets program, so now I know what Terry Cohen presented yesterday! Thanks! The Daily Times article was good this morning, but didn't give much information about the program itself.
ReplyDeletePlease, PLEASE, bring the Annapolis program to Salisbury! Thank you, Mrs. Cohen, for making everyone aware of it!
I'd like to know when the "Help" that was on the way,will get here?
ReplyDeleteSofar it seems just to be some photo ops, nothing really being accomplished. We're all ready for some real help, Jim!!
$35,000.00 for a crime anaylist. Ridiculous, stick your head out the window and you can get this for free. This is bullshit wasted funds. Who appoints these positions?
ReplyDeleteCSAFE Program Coordinator - Lead Coordinator/Mayor's Office $21,845.
ReplyDeleteIs this another way to overpay, underworked hangers-on in the Mayor's Office? Or are they going to add another part-time flunkie?
CSAFEs a great program. But this is just bureaucracy
What is that 65k for the states attorney going to do. That would pay one salary plus more. 65k is higher then most of what the prosecutors make there.
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