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NATIONAL ADVISORY President COMMITTEE FIGHT INVEST Sanford A. Newman POLICE Associate Directors Philip Arreola Chief. Tacoma, WA CRIME IN KIDS Amy R. Dawson Sherman Block Brendan J. Fitzsimons Sheriff, LA County. CA Communications Director William Bratton Fmr. Commiss'r., NYC John W. Bartlett Sam A. Cabral President, Int'l Union of Police Ass'ns, AFL-CIO Dean M. Esserman Chief, Metro North, NY NATIONAL CRIME AND Thomas C. Frazier VIOLENCE PREVENTION Police Commissioner, RESOURCE COUNCIL Baltimore, MD Gilbert G. Gallegos President, Fraternal Memorandum J. Lawrence Aber, Ph.D. Order of Police Director, National Center for E. Douglas Hamilton Children in Poverty Chief. Louisville. KY Barbara T. Bowman, M.A. Phil E. Keith To: Chief. Knoxville, TN Friends and Supporters of President, Erickson Institute of FIGHT CRIME: INVEST IN KIDS Advanced Study in Child R. Gil Kerlikowske Development Commissioner, Buffalo, NY From: Sandy Newman John A. Calhoun, M.P.A. Charles A. Moose Chief, Portland, OR Date: July 28, 1998 Executive Director, National Crime Prevention Council Patrick V. Murphy Re: Former Commiss'r. NYC, Update Donald J. Cohen, M.D. DC, Detroit. Syracuse Director, Yale Child Study Ctr. Dennis E. Nowicki Sanford Dornbusch, Ph.D. Chief, Charlotte, NC Thanks to the tremendous support we've received from so Professor Emeritus, Stanford; Reuban B. Ortega many terrific partners, we've made extraordinary progress over Advisory Board Chair, Stanford Chief, Salt Lake City, UT Center on Adolescence Matt L. Rodriguez the last four months. Craig W. Floyd Fmr. Police Sup't. Chicago, IL Chair, National Law Enforce- Joseph Samuels ment Officers Memorial Fund Chief, Oakland. CA Here's a recap of developments at FIGHT CRIME since we James A. Fox, Ph.D. Darrell Sanders Chief, Frankfort, IL last updated you in March: Dean, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University Darrel W. Stephens John W. Gardner, Ph.D. Fmr. Chief, St. Petersburg. FL Patrick J. Sullivan, Jr. Impact of our After-School Report Former US Secretary of Health, Sheriff, Arapahoe Co., CO Continues to Snowball Education, and Welfare: Donald H. Warshaw Consulting Professor, Stanford Chief, Miami, FL Richard Gerber, M.D. Robert S. Warshaw Last September we released our report, After-School Associate Clinical Professor of Chief, Rochester, NY Psychiatry, GWU Med. School Elizabeth M. Watson Programs or After-School Crime, at a press conference with Alice S. Honig, Ph.D. Former Chief, Austin. TX Attorney General Janet Reno. Based on data compiled by the Professor Emerita, Child PROSECUTORS National Center for Juvenile Justice and the Office of Juvenile Development, Syracuse Univ. Thomas C. Joe, M.A. Ronald Earle Justice & Delinquency Prevention, this report showed that over Director, Center for the District Atty., Travis Co.. TX half of all juvenile crime occurs between the hours of 2 p.m. and Study of Social Policy Norman S. Early, Jr. J. Ronald Lally, Ed.D. Former D.A., Denver, CO 8 p.m., and that juvenile crime could be cut sharply if we Dir., Ctr. for Child and Family Ralph C. Martin, II invested in the quality educational and recreational after-school Studies, Far West Laboratory District Atty.. Suffolk Co., MA Steven Marans, Ph.D. Jack O'Malley programs that help steer kids away from delinquent activity. Director, Program on Child Fmr. State's Atty., Cook Co., IL Development-Community Elliot L. Richardson Former Attorney General The report has generated extraordinary press coverage, and Policing, Yale Child Study Ctr. Ray Marshall, Ph.D. and Secretary of HEW, of Defense and of Commerce is, we believe, playing a significant role in creating interest Former US Secretary of Labor; Jim Ryan among national and state policy-makers for increasing public Chair in Economics and Public Attorney General, IL Affairs, Univ. of Texas - Austin Grant Woods investment in after-school programs. Its data and analysis, for Jack McDevitt, Ph.D. Attorney General, AZ example, are frequently cited by the President, the First Lady, the Professor, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern Univ.; CRIME SURVIVORS Vice President, and the Attorney General, and legislators at the Co-Director, Center for Criminal federal and state levels. Justice Policy Research Frances Davis Lisbeth B. Schorr Fdr., Mothers of All Children Ellen Halbert Lecturer in Social Medicine, And as we and our terrific allies continue to work with Harvard University Editor, National Crime Victims Report David P. Weikart, Ph.D. Carole Grant Hall reporters, the coverage continues to grow over six months later, President, High/Scope Director, Ginger Ridge including, for example, a recent front page feature story in the Educational Research Fdn. Residents' Initiative Bernice Weissbourd Marc Klaas Los Angeles Times and a 6-page feature story in Newsweek Pres., Family Resource Council Fdr., Klaas Fdn. for Children entitled "It's 4 p.m.: Do You Know Where Your Children Are?". Richard Weissbourd, Ph.D. Dennis Lees, Ph.D. Professor, Kennedy School of Mgr., Mental Health Clinic Government, Harvard Jean Lewis Chuck Wexler, Ph.D. President, Parents of Executive Director, Police Murdered Children Executive Research Forum Gordon Rondeau & Edward Zigler, Ph.D. Elaine Rondeau Director, Bush Center in Child Founders, Action America: Development and Social Policy, Murder Must End Now Yale University 1334 G Street, NW Suite B Washington, DC 20005-3107 (202) 638-0690 Fax (202) 638-0673 www.fightcrime.org project of the Action Against Crime and Violence Education Fund