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May 27, 2010

City of Flint, MSU partnership collaborates to reinstitute neighborhood foot patrol programs

Community policing: Walking a beat to keep streets and neighborhoods safer

In 2010, Mott made two grants – $1.15 million to the City of Flint and $350,000 to Michigan State University’s School of Criminal Justice – to reinstitute a community policing strategy that relies on neighborhood foot patrols and data-driven crime fighting.


By ANN RICHARDS
Since the late 1970s, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has supported the concept of community policing – first in its home community of Flint, Michigan and subsequently, through the promotion of that model internationally. In 2010, Mott made two grants – $1.15 million to the City of Flint and $350,000 to Michigan State University’s School of Criminal Justice – to reinstitute a community policing strategy that relies on neighborhood foot patrols and data-driven crime fighting.

Flint’s 21st Century Community Policing effort – as the new initiative is known – will focus on helping Flint’s police force incorporate new technologies and develop community partnerships as they work to deliver public safety services during a period of stretched resources.

Below are two articles that describe Mott’s historic involvement with the national neighborhood foot patrol movement as well as its most recent grants to support training and assistance to Flint police officers and supervisors, civilian dispatchers, volunteers and other stakeholders working to reduce crime through community policing tactics.
Kirk McQuinlin[May 25, 2010]
Involved citizens are key to success of neighborhood foot patrol programs
“Community policing only works if the community works with you,” said Kirk McQuillan (pictured at left,) who began and ended his career as a foot patrol officer for the Flint Police Department. McQuillan retired in April 2010 after serving the past 10 years as a foot patrol officer in downtown Flint.








Flint community policing [March 5, 2010]
Mott’s legacy in community policing revived with new grants to City of Flint, MSU
Flint’s 21st Century Community Policing (CCP) effort – as the new initiative is known – will revive the legacy of community policing and neighborhood foot patrols in the city, incorporating new technologies and police/community partnerships to deliver effective public safety services.