NCLB

Result of Gender

Result of Age

Knowledge of the community

44 percent of the respondents have lived in the community for more than 6 years.

23 percent of the respondents have lived in the community for more than three years. Together they form 67 percent of the respondents respondents who have a good knowledge of present and past community life.

Perception of Safety

Assessing the feeling of safety was given priority in the survey. An attempt was made right from the fourth question in the questionnaire asking them how safe do the respondents feel in the community. According to our findings, 35 percent of respondents feel safe in the community as compared to 30 percent who feel unsafe. We find almost the same proportions among those who feel very safe (16 percent) and very unsafe (19 percent).

However, in response to the next question, asking if the respondents felt safer now than two years ago, 65 percent responded ´No.´

This indicates a shift in perception when community members are asked to consider their beliefs about safety over a specific period of time.

Violent Crimes

Residents were asked to select their top three concerns from a list that ranged form violent crime to graffiti. Table 2 below discloses the results to Question 6 on the survey: Please pick the top three concerns that you have about your community, if there are any. 72 percent consider drug dealing in their community as their prime concern following by gang activity (56 percent) and graffiti (37 percent).

Violent crimes of most concern

The community members took the liberty to add the following the to choices provided about crime-related concerns:

September 13, 2005
· “Garbage disposal.”

Gangs

Participants who felt gangs were a problem were asked to choose their top three concerns. Responses varied from a majority of them (51 percent) saying due to gang activity there is an increased fear for safety, to 49 percent saying it leads to increase in drug crimes, to 26 percent considering it a source of public nuisance.

Problems Associated with Gangs

Why Gangs

The next question (#8) further probed the respondents to find out the possible reasons for gang related activity. The participants were asked to pick three reasons why they believe gang activity exists in their community. The response was amazing, as we can see from the following graph. 81 percent believed it is due to poverty, where as 56 percent believed it is due to lack of activities for youth. 35 percent selected family problems and 30 percent of the respondents indicated that the involvement of family or friends in gangs was a factor. 19 percent indicated that the need for protection was a factor in the existence of gang activity in their neighborhood.

Reasons of Gang Existance

Violent Crime Types

Participants were asked to identify the type of violent crime about which they are most concerned. 1 said Rape is the violent crime about which they are most concerned. 1 said Murder is the violent crime about which they are most concerned. 11 said Gang Related is the violent crime about which they are most concerned.

Crime Types

Participants were asked to identify the types of crime about which they are most concerned. 22 said Prostitution is the crime about which they are most concerned. 11 said Burglary is the crime about which they are most concerned. 23 said Loitering is the crime about which they are most concerned.

The respondents added the following to the list:

September 13, 2005
· “testtttt”

Risk of getting involved in a gang

In question 13, respondents were asked if they believed that their children were in a gang, at risk of being in a gang or not involved. 35 percent of respondents stated that their children are not involved with a gang. 28 percent believed that their child(ren) is at risk of getting involved. 16 respondents (37 percent) did not respond to this question.

Times When Residents Are Most Concerned About Crime

Participants were asked to identify the time of the day when they are most concerned about crime. Later night was identified as the time when people most fear violent crime in the study area, garnering a 42 percent score. However, 28 percent of respondents selected day time/working hours, substantiating anecdotal accounts of drug activity occurring in broad daylight.

Table 2. Time Residents Are Most Concerned with Crime

	Corinthian
	Total	Percent
Morning	12	28%
Working Hour	13	30%
Evening	18	42%
Late night	0	0%

Victim of Crime

Resdidents were asked that have they been the victim of crime. According to our findings, 12 percent of respondents answered 'YES' while 88 percent answered 'NO' .

Tenant Association

Resdidents were asked that are they involved in tenant association. According to our findings, 26 percent of respondents answered 'YES' while 74 percent answered 'NO' .

Like to be involved in Tenant Assosciation

Feedbacks

Q. Is there a particular street or block you prefer to avoid when traveling to and from the community?

Q. Have you ever been the victim of a crime in this neighborhood? What type of crime were you the victim of? Are you comfortable with describing what happened? Where did this crime occur?

Q. If you think there are dangerous areas in your community, where are they? Why dangerous?

Q. What types of recreation programs, family-oriented activities, or other activities would you like to see in the community?

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Q. What type of activity do you think will be suitable for bringing the community out for meeting on weekly basis?