Project SAFEWAYS, a multi-pronged approach to reducing crime in apartment complexes, is underway at Autumn Ridge Apartments through a public and private partnership between LEDIC Management Group, Southeast Memphis CDC and local law enforcement agencies. Funded in part by the U.S. Department of Justice, Project SAFEWAYS is a data-driven policing strategy that uses state-of-the-art surveillance equipment at the MPD’s Real Time Crime Center.
The initiative combines a wide range of resources to address gang and criminal activity within apartment communities. Strategies include the District Attorney’s new No Trespass program, which allows police to work with property owners and managers to keep persons who are not residents or guests removed from the property; license plate readers on police cars connected to the Real Time Crime Center; site-based services that help residents; regular information-sharing on crime patterns, problem tenants and other relevant issues with MPD and among apartment managers; and training on implementing other “best practices” for property management including tenant marketing and screening, lease provisions and eviction guidelines.
Credited as the first of its type in the country, according to Pierce Ledbetter, LEDIC Management Group CEO and president, the 6-week old program has motivated a number of historically disruptive tenants to move out of the complex.
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