Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (SACSI) Research Partnership in Detroit, Michigan, 1999-2003
Description
The Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative
(SACSI), in Detroit, Michigan, involved a team of federal, state, and
local agencies that worked together to systematically address gun
violence in that city. The purpose of the SACSI project was to examine
the dynamics of gun violence and the manner in which such cases are
processed within the criminal justice system, and to evaluate two
SACSI gun violence interventions in Detroit's Eighth Precinct. The
first intervention, "Operation 8-Ball," was a warrant sweep aimed at
gun-involved offenders with outstanding warrants, who were residing in
the Eighth Precinct. Part 1, SACSI Monthly Gun Robberies Data,
contains the monthly totals for stranger gun robberies in three
Detroit precincts, collected to measure the impact of the "Operation
8-Ball" intensive warrant enforcement program conducted in late
September 2001. Part 1, contains six variables. The second strategy
for addressing gun violence adopted by the working group was a
gun-involved parolee supervision component entitled the Detroit SACSI
Parolee Initiative. Part 2, SACSI Monthly Contact for Parolees Data,
contains the monthly totals for a variety of parole contacts,
collected to measure the intensity of a supervision program
implemented for gun offenders, which commenced in July 2002. Part 2
also contains levels of parole violations in an intensive parole group
in the Eighth Precinct of Detroit. Part 2, contains 16 variables.