This U.S. Department of Justice report shows how corporations, communities, and law enforcement agencies have constructed and maintained partnerships to build safer, healthier communities.
Nothing is more destabilizing to communities than crime.
It is bad for our families and children, and it is bad for business and economic development. All too often, businesses flee inner-city neighborhoods for beltway business zones, thereby leaving already distressed urban neighborhoods even less stable. We have funded community-oriented policing, community courts, and innovative crime prevention programs. We have urged federal prosecutors and investigators to join with state and local law enforcement to do everything possible to support public safety partnerships where they exist and help promote them where they do not. In traveling across America as Attorney General, I have seen public-private partnerships develop in towns and cities to create safer, more sustainable communities.