DC Public Safety Blog

Using social media (audio and video podcasts) during a media campaign to convince criminal offenders with warrants to surrender resulted in 530 offenders complying with the terms of the program in Washington, D.C.

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By Thomas H. Williams. Edited by Leonard Sipes, Cedric Hendricks and Joyce McGinnis
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See www.csosa.gov for the web site of the  federal Court Services and Offender Services Agency.
Editor’s notes: This article was created from a paper delivered by the author at the New Developments in Criminal Justice and Crime Control Conference at the [...]

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By Leonard A. Sipes, Jr. Edited by Cedric Hendricks and Joyce McGinnis
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See www.csosa.gov for the web site of the  federal Court Services and Offender Services Agency.
The name sounds like the essence of bureaucracy-the Transitional Intervention for Parole Supervision unit, or TIPS. The TIPS teams of Community Supervision Officers [...]

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By Frank Lu, Laurence Wolfe, Beverly Hill and Leonard Sipes. Edited by Cedric Hendricks and Joyce McGinnis
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See www.csosa.gov for the web site of the  federal Court Services and Offender Services Agency.
“This is not an article about an information system; it is an overview of our attempt to dramatically improve the criminal justice [...]

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GPS Locations Now Being Linked With Crime Reports
Numbers on Satellite Tracking Will Grow to 500 Per Day
By Paul Brennan and Leonard Sipes. Edited by Cedric Hendricks and Joyce McGinnis
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See www.csosa.gov for the web site of the  federal Court Services and Offender Services Agency.
The Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency [...]

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