Strategic Solutions • Focused Action • Reduced Violence
INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS
YOUTH VIOLENCE WEBINAR
DR. MALLORY O’BRIEN • CAPTAIN JASON SMITH
MARIO MACIEL • OFFICER JASON KILMER
KRISTIE BRACKENS • THERON PRIDE
2:00 – 3:30 PM EASTERN
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WEBINAR OVERVIEW & OBJECTIVES
 Moderators: Kristie Brackens and Theron Pride
 Describe the Juvenile Justice Review process, including successes and
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challenges.
Illustrate successful, collaborative initiatives and programs developed as
a result of the review process.
Examine the Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission process and
how it can apply to youth violence.
Discuss the structure and staffing of the Safe School Campus Initiative
(SSCI).
Discuss partnerships with local agencies.
Review the process to develop a SSCI program.
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VIOLENCE REDUCTION NETWORK
Juvenile Justice Reviews
Mallory O’Brien, PhD
Captain Jason Smith
Milwaukee Police Department
MPD
has 7through
police innovative
districts totaling
96.6
square
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interagency
collaboration
miles.
District One comprises a 5.1 square mile
area with a district population in excess of 45,000
people.
District Two comprises a 7.2 square mile area
with a district population in excess of 87,000
residents.
District Three comprises an 11.8 square mile area
with a district population in excess of 100,000
residents.
District Four comprises 28.8 square miles, with a
district population of nearly 70,000 residents.
District Five comprises 7.7 square mile area with
a district population of nearly 60,000 residents.
District Six comprises 22.7 square mile area with
a district population in excess of 114,000
residents.
District Seven comprises 13.3 square mile area
with a district population in excess of 110,000
residents.
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Criminal Justice Model
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• SCANNING
• ANALYSIS
• RESPONSE
• ASSESSMENT
SARA
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Focus is on prevention.
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Homicide Reviews
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Does it work?
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NIJ Funded Evaluation
2005 -2007
Experimental Design
Intervention (blue)
Control (grey)
Intervention Districts
52% decrease in the monthly count
of homicide
Control Districts
9.2% decrease in the monthly count
of homicide
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Juvenile Justice Review
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• Case Selection
– Prolific Juvenile Offenders (person vs. event)
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Monthly meetings
Multidisciplinary team
Commitment to participate/share information
Focus
– Identify trends/pattern that lead to the
development of prevention strategies
– Ensure offender is receiving appropriate services
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Multidisciplinary Team
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• Police
– District
– Intel Fusion Center
– Office of Management
and Planning
• Presiding Judge
• State Juvenile
Corrections
• County Juvenile
Corrections
• Prosecution
– Delinquency
– Protection
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Public Defender
Schools
Child Welfare
Wrap Around
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Tools for Success
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• Spend some time up front as a group learning
about what each agency really does and why
• Court order to share information
• Designate consistent representative
• Right representative
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Juvenile Justice Reviews
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• Interdisciplinary information sharing
• Development of recommendations
– Big R and little r Recommendations
• Big R– Change in SOP
• little r – case follow-up
• Governing body to assist with implementation
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Recommendations
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• Collaborative Processes
• Information Sharing
– Legislation – Law Enforcement access to Juvenile
CCAP (Court data)
– Juvenile Milwaukee Collaborative Offender
Reentry Program
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COPS Training
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COPS 2015 Training Schedule
• April 21 and 22
• May 19 and 20 (tentative)
• September 15 and 16
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COPS Training
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For More Information:
Michael Totoraitis
Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission
P: 414-935-7625
mtotor@milwaukee.gov
Http://city.milwaukee.gov/hrc/COPS-NationalTrainingTechnica
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Safe School Campus
Initiative (SSCI)
Violence Reduction Network
January 27, 2015
Mario Maciel, San Jose Mayor's Gang Prevention Task Force
Jason Kilmer, San Jose Police Department
Safe School Campus Initiative
SSCI is a crisis response and
communication protocol aimed at
preventing and deescalating
incidents of violence on and
around school campuses
Welfare Institutions Code 830.1
Members of a juvenile justice multidisciplinary team
engaged in the prevention, identification, and
control of crime, including, but not limited to,
criminal street gang activity, may disclose and
exchange non-privileged information to and with
one another relating to any incidents of juvenile
crime, including criminal street gang activity, that
may be otherwise designated as confidential.
Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT)
Welfare and Institutions Code 18951 defines a
MDT as:
• Any team of three or more persons, trained in the
prevention, identification, and control of juvenile
crime.
Formalized safety partnerships
• Designated School Safety Personnel
• City Community Coordinator
• Police School Coordinator
• Probation Officers
• District Attorney’s Office Representative
SSCI Sites/Resources
Sites
• 19 School Districts
• 74 Middle and High School Campuses
Staff Resources (PRNS & SJPD)
• 5 School Liaison Officers
• 4 Community Coordinators
• 21 Youth Outreach Workers
SSCI Team
• Police Officer
• Community Coordinator
• Youth Outreach Workers
Each team has approximately 19 schools
Police Liaison Officer
• Provides a single point of contact as broker for
police services and resources.
• Shares pertinent information with schools
regarding climate, safety announcements, and
possible threats in the area and community
related to violence.
• Provides training, and technical assistance in
criminal and educational legal issues.
Community Coordinator
• Assesses and advises school administration on matters
of school safety.
• Provides a single point of contact for community
resources.
• Shares pertinent information with schools regarding
climate, safety announcements, and possible threats in
area and community related to violence.
• Provides training to schools and administrators on safety
protocols.
• Attends and/or facilitates school collaborative safety
meetings.
Youth Outreach Worker
• Provides city-wide gang mediation and
intervention in the community and on school
campuses.
• Leads trips, conducts home visits and
assessments on gang involved/at-risk youth.
• Refers youths to the appropriate
agencies/programs that support positive
lifestyle changes.
• Provides gang awareness presentations.
Response Activation Protocol- Levels
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Level I “Incident in Progress”
– Call 9-1-1
– Violence has erupted
– Armed intruder
Level II “Incident Likely to Occur”
– Tension has become elevated; conflict seems certain
to occur
– Fight and incidents in the past few days are
connected
– Reliable source says, “fight will happen Friday” or “at
lunch”
Response Activation Protocol- Levels
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Level III “Potential that Incident May Occur”
– Report of tension or potential conflict among
individual groups or schools have surfaced in the
community
– Information may indicate potential for an incident that
may warrant proactive intervention or mediation
– Incidents have happened on campus, or at other
schools or in the community that may point to future
incident
SSCI Activations
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# of Incidents
500
383
400
354
336
300
2011-12
2012-13
2013-14
185 251
200
109
100
415
89
41
62
27
52
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Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Crisis Response Levels
Total
SSCI Services
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Mediations
Conflict Resolution
Referrals
Home Visits
Before/Lunch/After School Coverage &
Presence
• Presentations/Trainings
• Diversion Activities/Trips
SSCI Results 13-14
• 100% of SSCI incidents were responded to within
30 minutes
• 100% of SSCI school conflicts were resolved within
2 weeks
• 415 school conflicts were resolved with reestablishment of safe learning environment within
two weeks
• 89% of Safe School Campus Initiative customers
surveyed rating services good or better
Lessons Learned
• Start with High Level Buy-in
– School Superintendents
– Mayor and Police Chief
– Community
• Cast the right staff
• The work is Relational!
Q&A
 Moderators: Kristie Brackens and Theron Pride
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RESOURCES
 Managing the Group Violence Intervention: Using Shooting Scorecards
to Track Group Violence http://nnscommunities.org/uploads/Shooting_Scorecards.pdf
 School-Based Partnerships: A Problem-Solving Strategy - http://ric-zaiinc.com/Publications/cops-w0188-pub.pdf
 Addressing School-Related Crime and Disorder http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Publications/e07011213.pdf
 Using School COP: A Guide for School Administrators and Safety
Personnel - http://ric-zai-inc.com/Publications/cops-w0715-pub.pdf
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THANK YOU!
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