See http://media.csosa.gov for our television shows, blog and transcripts.

Current Radio Program:

The program interviews Dr. William Sondervan, Executive Director for Public Safety Outreach for the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) and Peter Oleson, Associate Professor of Intelligence Studies for UMUC addressing the use of intelligence and information sharing within the criminal justice system.

The website for UMUC is http://www.umuc.edu.

Special Announcements:

The National Reentry Resource Center is a project of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice. Please see the Center’s website at http://www.nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/ . Please see “Federal Interagency Reentry Council Launches Website, Releases Myth-Buster Series” on the front page of the site (see announcements). CSOSA is a member of the Council.

Several requestors have asked for national research on reentry. The Office of Justice Program’s National Institute of Justice reentry research portfolio supports the evaluation of innovative reentry programs. To access these studies and NIJ’s entire reentry research portfolio visit www.nij.gov/nij/topics/corrections/reentry/welcome.htm

The Louisiana Department of Corrections/Division of Probation and Parole is offering radio shows on reentry. Please visit their website at http://doc.la.gov/pages/reentry-initiatives/reentry-radio/ .

Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency:

We welcome your comments or suggestions at leonard.sipes@csosa.gov or at Twitter at http://twitter.com/lensipes.

The website for the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency is http://www.csosa.gov/.

The program is hosted by Leonard Sipes. The producer is Timothy Barnes.

Comments offered on “DC Public Safety” television and radio programs are the opinions of participants and do not necessarily represent the policies of CSOSA or other government agencies.

Welcome to DC Public Safety – radio and television shows on crime, criminal offenders and the criminal justice system.

See http://media.csosa.gov for our television shows, blog and transcripts. We now average 200,000 requests a month.

Transcript available at http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/transcripts/2010/11/an-interview-with-bernard-melekian-director-us-department-of-justice-office-of-community-oriented-policing-services/

We welcome your comments or suggestions at leonard.sipes@csosa.gov or at Twitter at http://twitter.com/lensipes.

The program interviews Bernard Melekian, Director of the US Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (commonly known as COPS or the COPS Office). Mr.  Melekian has a life-long commitment to law enforcement starting as a police officer and ending as a Chief of Police for Pasadena, CA.

The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services is the component of the US Department of Justice responsible for advancing the practice of community policing through the provision of information and grant resources.

Community policing is a philosophy that promotes the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques to proactively address crime and public safety issues and fear of crime.

The website for COPS is http://www.cops.usdoj.gov.

The program is hosted by Leonard Sipes. The producer is Timothy Barnes.

Welcome to DC Public Safety – radio and television shows on crime, criminal offenders and the criminal justice system.

See http://media.csosa.gov for our television shows, blog and transcripts. We now average 213,000 requests a month.

We welcome your comments or suggestions at leonard.sipes@csosa.gov or at Twitter at http://twitter.com/lensipes.

Transcript available at http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/transcripts/2010/05/social-media-for-law-enforcement-dc-public-safety-213000-requests-a-month/

The program interviews Lauri Stevens, Chair of Web Design and Interactive Media for the New England Institute of Art and organizer of the Social Media in Law Enforcement Conference (SMILE). Also interviewed is Daniel Alexander, Chief of Police, Boca Raton, FL. Chief Alexander will be speaking at the Social Media in Law Enforcement Conference. He employees a wide array of social media initiatives.

The theme of the program is that social media accomplishes a wide array of operational objectives, improves public safety and prompts multiple conversations with citizens to improve operations and crime control.

The web address for the conference is http://thesmileconference.com . The website for Chief Alexander is http://www.bocaviper.com.

The program is hosted by Leonard Sipes. The producer is Timothy Barnes.

Terms: social media, SMILE, Social Media in Law Enforcement, police, law enforcement

See http://media.csosa.gov for our television shows, blog and transcripts.

Transcript available at http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/transcripts/?p=191

We welcome your comments or suggestions at leonard.sipes@csosa.gov or at Twitter at http://twitter.com/lensipes.

The show interviews participants from an exemplary program/award winner via the National Criminal Justice Association. Those interviewed include: Karhlton Moore, Executive Director of the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services, Dr. Robin Engel, Director of the University of Cincinnati Policing Institute and Greg Baker, Executive Director of Community Relations of the Cincinnati Police Department.

The Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) is a US Department of Justice-funded, multi-agency and community collaborative effort that was initiated in April 2007. The program is designed to quickly and dramatically reduce gun violence with sustained reductions over time.

The initiative is a focused deterrence strategy loosely modeled after the Boston Gun Project in the mid-1990s.  The cornerstone is a partnership among multiple law enforcement agencies (local, state and federal), social service providers and the community that systematically gather information from multiple sources to identify and target violent street groups that continue to engage in violence. The group then delivers a clear and unified “no violence” message to these violent groups. The message explains that violence will bring law enforcement attention to the entire group, offers alternatives and articulates community norms against violence.  The anti-violence message is powerfully communicated through a number of different mechanisms, including call-in sessions with probationers and parolees, direct contact (with street workers/advocates, police, probation and parole officers) and community outreach.  The core enforcement step is to “tax” groups for violence “through any convenient legal means, such as drug enforcement” and create conditions within the group such that members will control each others’ violent behavior.

Initial assessments of the effort indicate a 40 percent reduction in group member involved homicides.

The contact person for the program is Greg Baker at greg.baker@cincinnati-oh.gov .

The web site for the National Criminal Justice Association is www.ncja.org.

Bethany Broida from NCJA arranged the program. The show is hosted by Leonard Sipes. The producer is Timothy Barnes.

Meta terms: Police, law enforcement, Cincinnati, criminal justice, leadership, crime, criminals, criminal justice