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  • Crime Prevention


    • The National Crime Prevention Council is one of America’s most powerful forces for citizen mobilization. Prior to the 1980’s, most people didn’t believe that they had any useful role to play in preventing crime; they thought it was exclusively up to law enforcement to protect them. Now people everywhere understand that preventing crime is everyone’s business.
    NCPC was founded in 1982. It became the nation’s focal point for crime prevention undertaking efforts that by 2005 had helped America achieve its lowest crime rate in more than 30 years. During NCPC’s first 25 years, hundreds of millions of Americans learned from NCPC’s icon “McGruff” that they could “Take A Bite Out Of Crime” and make themselves, their families, their workplaces and their neighborhoods safer and better places to live. The National Crime Prevention Council’s Research shows that for every dollar spent on a quality youth-oriented crime prevention program in the neighborhood, residents save ten dollars in future rehabilitation and incarceration costs.

    Over the last year, staff has attended two of the National Crime Prevention Council’s conferences and later presented the Initiative to the staff and some representatives of local law enforcement. All were receptive to the development of NCPC programs in Montana.

    Please feel free to look over an informational Crime Prevention PowerPoint.

  • Tribal Lands Crime Data Collection

    • Crime statistics were compiled from 40 Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies in six states including: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. The Board of Crime Control then analyzed the data and published the results. The original report can be accessed at: Native American Crime in the Northwest Report.

    A power point Presentation outlining the project and an Aggregate Data Brochure are also available.