Programs related to screening children for exposure to lead, reducing infant mortality, understanding and preventing pediatric asthma, and promoting infant nutrition and better prenatal health can all be better coordinated through the integration of services. Ensure that the City's zoning and health and safety codes are enforced effectively. Bart Peterson will improve city services and work with neighborhood groups on code-enforcement issues. He also will expand the role of city parks in these children's communities by offering SFSP through the parks system. This ordinance will extend to parents the same authority they currently have to choose whether or not movies or videos are appropriate entertainment for their child.
Children are particularly susceptible to meth, because it is cheaper than cocaine.
It is also relatively easy to produce, so we must educate the public on how to identify symptoms of meth use and signs of meth labs in their neighborhoods. Direct significant police and social service resources towards protecting our children, fighting juvenile crime, and helping to break the connection between early delinquent behavior and later criminal activity. He will direct IPD to target the most violent juvenile offenders for stricter probation monitoring and more aggressive prosecution, and he will work diligently to support structured programs and activities that help deter juvenile crime. Improve the Domestic Violence Unit of IPD by staffing it with police officers who are specially trained to break the cycle of domestic violence. Children who grow up in violent homes are more likely to be victims of abuse and to become abusers.