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A Police Executive Research Forum

Since the early decades of this century, Blue Hole Park has provided special memories to Georgetown residents, many of whom remember it as the site where they learned to swim or where they were baptized. In recent years, however, the park had become a trouble spot where alcohol-related crimes and accidents frequently occurred. As a result, three Georgetown police officers initiated a problem-so...

A Police Executive Research Forum Publication Reporting on Innovative Approaches to Policing

Teenagers cruising up and down the main boulevard looking for fun and romance is nothing new. Started in the 1950s, cruising has since become entrenched in American society, where fancy cars are a status symbol. Glamorized by Hollywood in movies such as "American Graffiti, cruising has become a rite of passage for todays youths. Though enjoyable for teens, cruising has always been a problem for...

A Police Executive Research Forum Publication Reporting on Innovative Approaches to Policing

I had previously been networking with four neighborhood watch groups in the Rampart area. Wanting to assess the recycling facility's impact on the local community, I developed a questionnaire and distributed it to the groups leaders, who in turn gave it out to their members. Based on the questionnaire's results, the citizens agreed the center and its related problems created a nuisance for the ...

TÜSĐAD - Sabancı University Competitiveness Forum Innovations in Manufacturing 2006 / 07 Executive Summary Gündüz Ulusoy Hande

FORUM FORUM FORUM Population: a central concept for ecology?

When my colleague Mauricio Lima sent me the accompanying paper (Camus and Lima 2002) it rekindled my interest in an unfinished manuscript that attempts to address some of the questions and problems they pose. The ideas presented in this essay are based on the premise that ecology needs a central unifying concept upon which to build a coherent and practical discipline. I will argue that, from a ...