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SafeGrowth: Propaganda gardening - the unifying language of food
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Propaganda gardening - the unifying language of food. Sprouting cemeteries - placemaking with food - screenshot from TED Talk. Mateja Mihinjac is a criminologist at Griffith University, Australia currently completing doctoral research into the implementation of CPTED. She has co-taught SafeGrowth in Australia and New Zealand. Mateja worked in the Constitutional Court in Slovenia and is an active member of the International CPTED Association. The importance of education. The Incred...
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SafeGrowth: The World's First CPTED Town - Tumbler Ridge
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010. The World's First CPTED Town - Tumbler Ridge. Tumbler Ridge Town Hall. Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a new coal mine in northern British Columbia. How, the planners and developers asked, might one apply Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design to an entire, yet unconstructed, community of 5,000 residents? Tumbler Ridge doesn't look all that different from other picturesque mountain towns. At least not on first blush! Street layout from the air. Strangely, though ...
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SafeGrowth: Building a relationship with law enforcement
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Sunday, May 3, 2015. Building a relationship with law enforcement. Daniel Nicoletta's photo White Night Riots - photo licensed by Wikimedia Commons. Last week there were more shootings by, and of, police. There were more riots - Baltimore, Seattle. Time Magazine. Commentators claim “protests and riots - uprisings - could become the new normal. Welcome to the new America.”. It does not need to be the new normal! This Wednesday I invite you to a webinar on making things better with police and communities.
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SafeGrowth: You In Blue – Guidebook for the new cop
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Sunday, May 24, 2015. You In Blue – Guidebook for the new cop. A new book on policing by Gerry Cleveland and Gregory Saville. As I write, citizens in Cleveland. Are protesting yet another police shooting. Sadly, the wrong members of the community receive the brunt of the blame. Vandals and troublemakers cause the problems, yet many in America are prepared to lay the blame at the feet of African American citizens. That blame is both misplaced and unfair. President Obama’s recent Task Force. A former cop, ...
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SafeGrowth: Every time they want to count you out...use your voice
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Every time they want to count you out.use your voice. Facilitating safety audits with Saskatoon kids - doing it their way. GUEST BLOG: Tarah Hodgkinson is senior researcher in the Integrated Risk Assessment Instrument Group in Vancouver, Canada. She is a member of the International CPTED Association and a certified SafeGrowth practitioner. She is completing her PhD in criminology at Simon Fraser University. Like the lyrics above from the best selling track Sing. Canada. With...
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SafeGrowth: Steel palms and transformation in Philly
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Monday, August 3, 2015. Steel palms and transformation in Philly. Neighborhood music store and steel palms on 5th Street North, Philadelphia - photo Theresa Stigale. That was my thought last week in Philadelphia where we worked with Philadelphia LISC. The Philadelphia Commerce Department. To launch more SafeGrowth community development projects. We’ve been here twice over the past few years, most recently last year where impressive project work is still underway. One of those SafeGrowth project...Park - ...
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SafeGrowth: May 2015
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Sunday, May 24, 2015. You In Blue – Guidebook for the new cop. A new book on policing by Gerry Cleveland and Gregory Saville. As I write, citizens in Cleveland. Are protesting yet another police shooting. Sadly, the wrong members of the community receive the brunt of the blame. Vandals and troublemakers cause the problems, yet many in America are prepared to lay the blame at the feet of African American citizens. That blame is both misplaced and unfair. President Obama’s recent Task Force. A former cop, ...
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SafeGrowth: Crime in the snow - CPTED & winter cities
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Monday, March 25, 2013. Crime in the snow - CPTED and winter cities. Snow and CPTED. Examining LED streetlights and staying warm (photo by Jason Tudor). Never imagined how crime works in a winter city. Local practitioners figure that out themselves. Case in point: Our SafeGrowth training last week in Saskatoon, Canada. About 250 miles north of the US border. Saskatoon now leads the municipal pack for CPTED implementation. I've blogged before about Saskatoon, especially regarding bus terminals. And Gardin...
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SafeGrowth: March 2015
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Friday, March 27, 2015. The neighbors next door. Shows how both neighbors and neighborhoods matter a great deal in preventing crime. Tim Hegarty is a Division Commander with the Riley County Police in Kansas, adjunct instructor at Kansas State University and expert in police innovation. He is also a Certified Level II Instructor in problem-based learning. Here he reviews the Criminology of Place. 8220;Neighbors next door are more important than family far away.”. Their research reinforces the importance ...
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SafeGrowth: April 2015
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Friday, April 24, 2015. Whatever you do.keep moving forward. Together North Jersey's final report. On the Newark SafeGrowth training - photo from TNJ report. With great respect for Martin Luther King Jr’s famous words about moving forward, I am reminded of crime prevention work in Newark, NJ. Crime prevention can be slow and grinding. Six years ago I paid homage. Newark SafeGrowth teams auditing abandoned buildings - photo TNJ report. Was hired to head up that training and project work. Project implement...
