At the recent Innovations in Criminal Justice Summit in Chicago, Minneapolis’s Downtown 100 program was honored as one of the top 10 national criminal justice initiatives, according to
MyFox9.com.
The collaboration between local government, businesses, nonprofits, and community members has a goal to “both reduce crime in the short term and develop solutions for maintaining law-abiding conduct in the long run,” the story states.
Downtown 100, which started in April 2010, helped reduce crime from top offenders by 74 percent, according to MyFox9.com.
It also led to more offenders being placed on supervised probation and obtaining housing, the story states.