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Home My WebLink AboutM-75-04441N? f.OP 1 C MBMtf'RANZUM 4 4„0 �`t�61s1t WI Andrews ity Manager Cotmissi her Rosy don bM t April 26 1078 *t1 itCtt Juvenile Pre ..Arrest Intervention program htlEli$HCE9r tNCLaAuatb, To further discover the feasibility of securing an additional h1AA matching grant for the City of Miami to fully expand the Youth Development Departmentand integrate juvenile programs throughout the City and with private agencies concerned, would you please assist this office in reaching the appropriate representative of the departments and agencies listed in my April 22 memorandum ( a copy of which is attached ) It is requested that they meet with the City of Miami Youth Advisory Board in the Commission Chambers on Thursday, May 1 at 5:30 p.m. Findings of this meeting will be brought before the. City`Commission -on May 8, 1975. Please schedule this on the agenda, for that date. Mayor Mat rite A. rtrre Vice Maier 4. 1414 Plummer tier. Comm. Theodore Gibson Comm. Manolo Pebesr City Manager Paul Andrews Comm. Rose 'Ger► muennets Juvenile Pre•Arrest Zntervention Program The City of Miami is'in the crime forefront. Statistics for the past several years have placed the crime rate per capita in the top levels for major cities. Analysis of arrest reports indicate that 95% of the perpetrators are, residents of the City and well over half are youthful offenders. The State of Florida has given "jurisdiction to juveniles with arrest records to Metropolitan Dade County. Federal legislation passed in late 1974 is designed to find alternativesto the problems of status offenders, those juveniles commiting acts which would be considered criminal if they were adults. Empowered also are proposals designed to prevent arrest and detention at the earliest indication. Preliminary applications are being accepted. until May 16 by the Law Enforcement Administration Agency and these proposals may range up to 1.5 million dollars. The City of Miami has established a School Resource unit which operates by placing specially trained officers in the four public high schools, eight junior high schools and 32 elementary schools. Identification has been made of 5,200 school -age problem youngsters out of a total school -age component of 45,000. The sheer number of other cases documented but with no detentions indicates a potential of several thousandmore violators. Also note recent article on school vandalism attached. In exploring a project to provide a constructive reduction in this incidence of youthful crime, it was discovered that the City of Miami has recently submitted a modest proposal 0of $275,000 to begin an intensive case work appr.ach for 1,000 youngsters, directly under a special Youth Division of the Police Department. It will be the ob5 otive of this iob-re sated analytical report to week a more comp ►+ hentive program which will incorporate several,, if not all, art ents Of City government at well as private agenoles tome of which are funded by the City to provide resources in a mayor effort to addresa the problem of pre -de .nt uenoy. The result may be an additional grant application or a revision of the previoua application to cover the entire City* Time and agreement on the desirability of integrating many diverse resources will be the natural constraints An exploratory meeting with interested Commission staff and assigned management staff indicates that the following departments and agencies are affected: The Police Department Eire Department -- prevention detail Department of Parks and Recreation Manpower Office Division of Community Affairs Planning Department The School Board Mental Health Association Board of Public Instruction Urban League JESCA Youth -Coop, Inc. Kicky Cruz, Inc. Sports Development, Inc. Edison -Little River Self -Help Catholic Archidiocese Big Brothers It is recommended by this memorandum that the City of Miami seek a minimum additional grant of $900,000 to cover all the youngsters intercepted by the Youth Division and construct a turn -around program utilizing every resource we have available in a coordinated manner. It is conceivable that we may desire to keep the current Police Department Building, 1145 N.W. 11 St., to consolidate all the resources mentioned under our Youth Division and add a recrea- tional component on site. The "jail" may well become a canteen and we could have a Drop -Out Drop -In room. Our maj°r'univer sities would certainly augment staff in such a location and mission. ° 'Toward he immediate ob tivel this office will continue to request meetings and input by both legislators and adminis trathmm within the next three weeks to meet the prs1i.mLnary application deadline. Additional integration thereafter will be a management function with any materials which have mean collect d . Ln this office made available. This appears to be one of the greatest th Ilenges we have aver faced.rttnding is avail ab Le on a 9b 10 match. Let us seek to use it for the moat worthwhile of purposes o worthwhile youthful citizens. • :ir) MPULSORY iGr 1;} .1XMES 7- KILPATRICK. wevyrenn stir srrwczte - SENATE subcommittee last released a sickening report ' 41.er adjective will sulfite - on en a and vandalism in our pub r]tnnts. But suhcnmmittee 7,ered few 'ts mn wby conditions 'PIA- it lead at all to r:*r how these ..:tens might a,s - l e relieved- :\itmittedly, this as a preliminary mart - 'lumber ^rein will he -1{ilpatrlck _s r^:ia�ted. - Bur _ ' n a congressional •body 'bon, s that "violence and vandalism - •t: had a level of crisis:' it is n rnsonable to ask that at - +aiminary remedies Ile ec-• • Cl k �toh�•t�tu`Tt i�:x \ • • ..l4 ommended. This Judiciary aubcom ;, tnitteet headed by Birch Bayh of -In- diana, has `been .studying' t}ie prob- lem for four years. FIAw long 0 Senator, hmvlong7 , ; • - The evidences' compiled by the subcommittee, •.drawn from 750 •Lo urdv} , Apr1I Ig,. Eli OP computed. The District of Columbia t,s---- ..: ...,.: — , , - �spends $622,000, a year to replace yea 1 . s • •* broken windows. Memphis puts its VIEWPOIN �� PAGE. 'cheat vandalism bill at;l•miltiote • . annually: Los Angeles psis S2 mil.. ' million. Salt Lake lion, Chicago. S3 Clty ;spans a 'S4000001 price, Issue liven es. In Houston, the cost s Angeles Is not alone in hav-: enough'. to run -two- elementary school districts around the country,.! choals for one year. Kew York a enough o turn 8 Trani 320,000 in 1972'to S3&9,000 In a single drool year, some 70,000 _ pals. In Winston-Salem, three thlfd. lice in .schools A conservative. teachers are seriously injured In at• 1973. grade pupils were charged with ex- ; guess, for.the country as a whale:' tacks by students The United Fed- • The schools of•Las Angles re• tartirtg nearly St 000 from a couple $500 million a year, equivalent to i gh to to one's stomach I'of school securitg officers Jumped : , (leg trouble with grade -school a mt- Citypays $5 S million to station• pa. oration of Teachers has bad to issue' \port one "gun incident every other a •booklet ' to' Its women members. day in 1971-72, warfare among the suggesting how they : may ; defend city's. estimated 150 gangs saw 29• themselves against the student bent students dead: One of the largest an rape. 'One suggestion Seize a, 'Los Angeles' gangs is called the' yen and gouge but his eyes.,- i Crips "The name•is a short•form:of • ;( ", Cripples which in turn is, derived) ]Nt .orle district after another, t from " the gang's • ;trademark of school- of iclals•repolt'lnarder, via-; `maiming or crippling their'.victims,: lent assault, gang warfare, burgta•. Tile Crips also have two auxiliary' ry, extortion and arson. Ire Birming- • units,—, the Crippct;, composed of ham, so many school officials began girl'memhrrs, and the Junior Crips, tarrying guns. for self-defense that made. Up of elementary school chil- the school superintendent had to dren." ''of classmates., Two of the boys' the amount spent on festbaoks. were 9,years old, the third 11. • , . e A PART of the why: in the sub- FROIt one end of the country to, • •cotirmittee's view, Ilea its racial ten:. the other,, the subcommittee's find-, sions mode worse by,radai-balance sings farm an appalling pattern: ter --,busing. Drugs figure importantly to ,rified teachers, imperiled principals, the dismal picture. Tim sociologists • hostile -pupils..: The tdst in human put '5e blame an "'problerpa- eaist- fnisery cannot be reckoned. Neither tng in the general American society, can a price tag be placed on the ed-• rather than to conditions or faliuces urational tosses that: occur when: within the school system itself? teaching yields to disorder. 1 • my ovru guess, from same years Costs in dollars can be roughly of contemplating public education•, Enf Tx that one or the root causes i¢ ttlo universal requirement at eotnpulso= ty school attendmcek. to campulsec'y • Schaal lame Wefa repeered. ar emended to admit ehifdrere wry to ate 12,. the echoe's would be res- lfeved at meng uneduceble louts who disrdpc tiler learning protest foc everyone arseThen, ig child labor taws were revised so these - louts could be put ire haaese work, ea ire Europe; stilt more goad might be accomplished: Tills is millennial vatltlrfn Slt3' trade unions and dolmadetar to whom yen. irayVe is indebted; a tt8 scrmerty of his colleagues mesa neves' would egrets to wrote nfode,G 'reforms- Ira the end, tits subednintit tee will recommend $1II billions ire federal snit -vandalism grants to ha spent ark toughs cops; and unbreak-' able windows grass. It wee errs Mt tat rear ars tubers generatinn; 06 edtra- tfonal Crips arid.Ceippets. we Will Qavtr Cotics better there amt.