Implementation Guide Flashcards
How can violence be reduced?
With partnerships of community members, law enforcement, and social service providers directly engaging with small and active number of people involved in groups and deliver the moral message from community, law enforcement message, and offer help
GVI offers to reset relationships, recognize and expand upon common norms, interests, and goals.
Built on schools of thought also known as focused deterrence and procedural justice.
Are there such a thing as dangerous neighborhoods?
No.
Offenders and communities want what
Want to be safe and have productive relationships with law enforcement
ideas that offenders are vicious is
Fundamentally wrong
Group members account for how much of a city’s population and how much of the crime?
Less than 0.5% of the population but accountable for 60 to 70 percent of the crime
All gangs are groups, but not all groups are gangs.
Worrying if a city has gangs or if a group is a gang is a waste of time
May or may not have…
Name, signs, tags, symbols, hierarchy,
Law enforcement in GVI holds group members accountable
True
The aim of the call-in is to reduce violence by
Creating accountability, creating internal social pressure, establishing clear community norms, offering help, providing a supported path
GVI can reduce homicides
30 to 60%
What is the National Network’s GVI
Together the partnership delivers a unified anti violence message explains that violence will bring law enforcement attention to the tire groups, offers services and alternatives to group members, and articulates community norms against violence.
Why does gvi focus on groups
Street groups are responsible for violence but also overrepresented as victims.
Who are the three actors in GVI
Law enforcement, community, social service providers
What is the difference between gvi and comprehensive gang model
CGM uses broad social intervention, opportunities provision, suppression, community mobilization and organizational change. GVI relies on a smaller, more easily assembled and narrowly focused partnership of law enforcement, community representatives, and social service providers to engage in a specific way with violent groups.
What is a call-in?
Use to deliver the strategy no-violence message to group members and through them, back to their associates.
Ideally gvi will work by not employing large numbers of arrests and enforcement actions.
True
What is an enforcement action?
Performing full conspiracy investigations, vigorously enforcing the conditions of group members probation or parole, serving warrants, performing drug buys and arrests. When law enforcement performs this for the first time, this is called an enforcement action.
What is group mapping?
Process of identifying all violent groups in a jurisdiction their areas of operation and their alliances and conflicts and estimating the number of members
What is a social network analysis?
A mathematical method that identifies the structures of street groups through connections contained within dept.
What is the target offense?
The offense that will trigger a law enforcement action
What is the working group?
A small stable membership of core representatives from LE, the community, and socail services chaired by the project manager who meet regularly.
Law enforcement buy in is instrumental to the success of the program
True
What is the executive committee?
Comprised of local leaders with. High level management experience
The incident review and group audit are two key GVI research components that require law enforcement to analyze data in a non traditional way.
True
Who are the law enforcement representatives?
Two senior officials from police, county sheriff, prosecutor, probation and parole, US attorneys office, FBI, DEA, ATF
How do agencies assess your violence problem
By using a mix of quantitative and qualitative information. Quantitative information is information like victims offenders histories weapon types origins. Qualitative information comes from the Frontline workers to answer context or any other inside information
The problem analysis consist of two parts what are the steps in part one?
Group audit, Internet review, executive summary and feedback to working group, identifying group members, and performance measures
What are the two steps in part to
Criminal history review and social network analysis
When using data to analyze the crime problem how many months or years worth of homicides in non-fatal shootings should be analyzed
Typically three years of homicides and about 18 months of non-fatal shootings
Explaining the purpose of the group audit one must emphasize that a group can refer to what?
Any set, click, crew, gang, or anyone that runs together. It does not have to be a statutorily identified gang
When conducting the incident review should officers only provide information that can be proven in court?
No, the incident review aims to collect what officers know about each incident not what they can prove legally