Erie Weed and Seed –What’s Weed and Seed?
Weed and Seed focuses on community-driven prevention, while it attacks the underlying roots that contribute to crime, such as unemployment, lack of a quality education and widespread poverty. It involves collaborative law enforcement between local and state crime fighting teams to eliminate drugs and violence in targeted neighborhoods.
At the same time, it works to revitalize and strengthen local leadership. Though this combined effort, Weed and Seed is delivering on the PCCD commitment to create safer and stronger communities throughout Pennsylvania.
Weed and Seed is a concept originally created by the federal government in 1991. The initiative attempted to demonstrate a means of mobilizing a large and varied array of resources in a comprehensive and coordinated effort to control drugs and crime and improve quality of life in targeted high crime neighborhoods.
The initiative’s name describes a two-pronged strategy: to "weed out" violent offenders via intensive law enforcement and prosecution efforts, and to "seed" neighborhoods with prevention, intervention, treatment, and revitalization services. Community policing was also an integral part of the original strategy, designed to bridge the gap between weeding and seeding efforts. The federal Weed and Seed initiative, implemented through the Department of Justice, focused largely on major urban areas across the United States.
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The Strategy
Weed and Seed, is a community-based strategy sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), is an innovative, comprehensive multiagency approach to law enforcement, crime prevention, and community revitalization. Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO) oversees the Weed and Seed initiative.