Cumberland's real troublemakers — from a crime standpoint — will be feeling the heat now that a new law enforcement program is under way.
The effort is known as Safe Streets and is designed to target individuals who repeatedly commit crimes.
The city recently hired David Goad, former Allegany County sheriff, to direct the effort. He said the program has these goals:
• Identify and prioritize offenders and warrants
• Train patrol officers on safe streets strategies
• Track prosecution of priority offenders
• Nuisance abatement
• Supervise and contain priority offenders
• Establish a watch center model
• Establish prosecution strategies
• Identify and enforce suspended and truant children
• Enhance technology
Goad describes the program as “an offender-based model established to institute seamless coordination, consistent interagency collaboration and information-sharing across all levels of government to reduce violent crime by focusing on the core group of offenders who commit the majority of violent offenses locally.”
A newly-formed Cumberland Safe Street Coalition includes the Cumberland mayor and council; Cumberland Department of Community Development; Cumberland Housing Authority; Office of the Allegany County State’s Attorney; Allegany County Sheriff’s Office; C3I and its Narcotics Investigation Unit; Allegany County Detention Center; Health Department; Board of Commissioners; Maryland Department of Parole and Probation; Department of Juvenile Services; Western Correctional Institution and the North Branch Correctional Institution; Maryland State Police; U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI.
If local law enforcement, judiciary and community agencies can increase pressure on habitual, major offenders there is bound to be a positive impact on local crime and its consequences.
Editorials
Related Photos
-
Safe Streets
Safe Streets
Program targeting city’s repeat offenders
- Editorials
-
-
Here it comes!
Maryland motorists are going to dread the arrival of July 1 over the next few years. It’s because that is the date the state’s gasoline tax increases will kick in.
-
150th birthday
West Virginians will be in a celebratory mood Thursday when the state’s sesquicentennial is marked in scores of events across the Mountain State.
-
Freedom isn’t exactly what he thinks it is
In the June 2 Times-News, R. Steele Selby (“Just how free are we?) defines freedom as “the capacity to do whatever he or she wants to do” and asserts that this definition is “most likely nearly universal.”
-
What Maryland calls the Fair Share Act isn’t fair at all
The Fair Share Act was passed in 2009. This law allowed for service fees to be part of the collective bargaining process.
The law does not mandate that service fees be negotiated, it simply provides that they can be. -
It’s not new
America’s governments have always afforded us what’s called “a double-edged sword” — one that cuts both ways — when it comes to the contrasting ideas of openness and security.
-
This summer:
You can do your kids a favor this summer by getting them involved in reading.
-
Western Md. Veterans continues its mission
My name is Dan Brashear, I am the founder and director of Western Maryland Veterans.
-
Maybe the cyclists and casino workers should be armed
Again, unfortunately I have to remind Don Carns Jr. of Beans Cove, Pa., on his latest repeatedly inaccurate letter published June 10 in the Cumberland Times-News (“Township is nothing like either Pittsburgh or Philadelphia”).
-
Let’s all kick in $1 to help save Frostburg’s Palace Theatre
As a former resident, I have many fond memories of the Palace Theatre (“Theater wall crumbles: Palace exterior collapses, unfit for entry: officials,” June 6 Times-News, Page 1A).
-
Close call
Thanks to a routine inspection, what could well have been a major disaster has been averted at Westmar Middle School’s football field.
- More Editorials Headlines
-
