Targeted Community Crime Reduction Project led to lasting groups after grant funds ended [JohnsonCityPress.com]

Samantha Sangenito 3/23/174:00 AM

When Becky Haas started working at the Johnson City Police Department to develop a crime-reduction program funded by a three-year grant, she had no idea it would turn into a full-time, permanent job once the grant ended.

The $800,000 grant — the Targeted Community Crime Reduction Project funded from the Department of Justice — started with the planning phase in 2013.

“The TCCRP was built on the shoulders of Weed and Seed,” said Haas, referring to a popular crime-reduction program implemented in cities across the nation after it launched in 1991, including Johnson City. The two programs are similar in their approach, but while Weed and Seed had a wider net of area to focus on, the TCCRP drills down to smaller sections of a city.

[For more of this story, written by Becky Campbell, go to http://www.johnsoncitypress.co...ant-funds-ended.html]

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