The S-D Community Council has applied for a $40,000 grant from Region 5 of the Law Enforcement Assistance Agency to support a multi-purpose anti-crime program in the neighborhood.
The funds would enable S-D to hire staff to work with juveniles as a preventive measure against juvenile crime. The work would concern itself with out-of-school crime prevention programs, and would also work with the schools, families and other agencies in spotting potential problems before they arise.
Part of the funds are earmarked for providing watchman service for empty homes during the day and for business premises at night.
The grant would enable S-D to begin a program that has met with success in other areas, the use of an engraving kit to mark frequently stolen items. The kit would be made available to residents of the area for a nominal rental so that they could engrave a distinctive mark on those items apt to be stolen. These marks would then be circulated to police and pawnbrokers and would serve as a means by which residents could properly identify stolen pro-perty.
Another portion of the fund would be used to provide a tenant-screening service to landlords who at present do not screen tenants in their buildings.
As of press time
As of press time, the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council received word that the crime proposal had been rejected for funding by the federal government. Appeals peals are being made, according to Calvin Stuart, exectuive secretary of the Council, but he did not hold out much hope that the proposal would be funded.
Originally published in The Paper, August 1971.
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