Weed and Seed

INKSTER WEED AND SEED

29150 Carlysle St.

Inkster, MI 48141

734.722.5146(phone) /734.722.2527 (fax)

Operation Weed and Seed, initiated in 1991, is a key component of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Anti-Violence Programs. It is a community driven strategy that brings together local crime-fighting agencies, social service providers, business owners, and neighborhood residents in a shared goal of weeding out violent crime and gang activity while seeding the area with social services and economic revitalization. Under the leadership of the United States Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Michigan, the City of Inkster was designated a Weed and Seed site in 1997. This designation has enabled Inkster Weed and Seed an opportunity to enhance the quality of life in our most challenging and most promising neighborhoods. In 2002, Inkster Weed and Seed was re-certified as an official Weed and Seed site. This designation is in effect for 5 years.

The main goal of Weed and Seed is to help prevent, control, and reduce violent crime, drug abuse, and gang activity in designated neighborhoods and provide a safe environment, free of crime and drug use, for law-abiding citizens to live, work, and raise their families. There are over 300 Weed and Seed sites throughout the country.

The Inkster Weed and Seed Strategy encompasses two goals: 1) eliminate violent crime, drug trafficking and drug-related crime from neighborhoods (weed) and 2) enhance our community with services and economic revitalization (seed). In meeting these goals, our program consists of three objectives: 1) develop a comprehensive, multi-agency strategy to control and prevent violent crime, 2) coordinate and integrate existing, as well as new, Federal, State and local and private sector initiatives, criminal justice efforts and human services and concentrate them in the city, and 3) mobilize community residents.

There are four essential elements to the Weed and Seed Strategy: Law Enforcement, Community Policing, Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment and Neighborhood Restoration.

Law Enforcement

Consists primarily of suppression activities that include enforcement, adjudication, prosecution, and supervision efforts designed to target, apprehend, and incapacitate violent street criminals who terrorize neighborhoods and account for a disproportionate percentage of criminal activity.

Community Policing

Creates an environment in which law enforcement works closely with community residents to develop solutions to violent, drug-related crime and social disorder present in the city.

Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment

This is the “seeding” aspect of the Weed and Seed Strategy that involves coordinating new or existing services to assist in reducing and preventing problem behaviors and criminal activity in Inkster.

Neighborhood Restoration

Entails revitalizing distressed neighborhoods through the development and implementation of various strategies that will enhance the physical environment within the city. A large portion of neighborhood restoration embraces improving the quality of life for residents through their surroundings.

Ways that Weed & Seed Works for You

· Partnership with Computer Learning Centers: Demby & Dartmouth Square.

· Field Trips for Youth (Drug Prevention Conference in Lansing, Youth Crime Prevention Conference in Miami, Florida, roller skating and etc).

· Initial placement of social workers and truancy officers in Inkster Middle and High School.

· Safe Night Event with Conflict Resolution and Gun Violence Prevention Workshops.

· Partnership with Inkster Task Force to host Senior Citizen Information Forums.

· School Resource Officer (uniformed police officer) in Inkster High School.

· Male Mentoring Program.

· Drug Education for Youth (DEFY) Program.

· Quarterly Law Enforcement Community Relations Meetings.

· Re-formation of the Inkster Chamber of Commerce.

· Gun Violence Prevention Program and Camp/Inkster High Leadership Camp.

· Project Sentry: In School Gun Violence Prevention Program developed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

· Sponsorship of Super Saturday Program.

· Partnership with Governor Granholm’s Office of Faith & Community Based initiatives to provide a Faith & Community Based Resource Symposium.

· Midnight Basketball League.

· Weed and Seed Community Resource Guide.

· Conflict Resolution Consultants in Blanchette Middle and Inkster High Schools.

· Various special events, workshops and other activities.

If you are interested in working with us or would like additional information, give us a call at 734.722.5146.

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26215 Trowbridge • Inkster, Michigan 48141
(313) 563-4232

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