This program involves police presence and deters street gang activity. The C.L.E.A.R. program is designed to coordinate the strategies and co-locate the resources of participating agencies to combat gang crime in Los Angeles. During the first six months that the C.L.E.A.R. program was fully operational, gang related violent crime decreased by 39 percent in the targeted area, and 35 percent in the surrounding neighborhoods. Due to the program's success, it is anticipated that by 1998, two additional target areas will be implemented. This program began in the elementary schools for adolescents in the fifth, sixth and seventh grades and since has expanded to include junior and high schools.
Program is to decrease gang and youth violence across the nation.
Included within the G.R.E.A.T. curriculum are many optional and extended activities which reinforce classroom instruction. Both the police officer and teacher work together to reduce gang and youth violence in the school and the community. The Office of the City Attorney formed a Gang Unit in 1986 to combat street-gang crime. The unit is headquartered in the City Hall East, with deputies also assigned to the various other offices of the Criminal Branch. The Gang Unit is responsible for securing civil injunctions against targeted gangs and enforcing them by means of civil and criminal sanctions.