Post by Police Moderator on Apr 7, 2013 1:32:04 GMT -5
Berke eyes new way to take on crime
by Beth Burger
by Beth Burger
One of the components of Mayor-elect Andy Berke's plan to combat crime in Chattanooga will be unlike anything police here have done before.
And Police Chief Bobby Dodd says it could be rolled out within a few weeks.
The drug market initiative program, sometimes called the "High Point Initiative" for the city in North Carolina where it was first employed nearly a decade ago, calls for reducing violence by cracking down on drug dealers.
The plan calls for targeting drug dealers in a specified neighborhood. The worst offenders are prosecuted. The others are asked to come to the table along with a loved one. They are shown the evidence against them and given a choice: Go straight with the help of police and social service agencies, get out of town or go to prison on federal charges. Translation: for a long time.
Read more: times free press
Hummmmmm........ Arresting our way out of a problem? What a novel idea.
