This and That

From some of the discussion groups I frequent...

 

 

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"Does anyone have a report or know of a study that has been conducted that indicates whether or not a newly-constructed homeless shelter increased crime or risk within a geographic area? A residential community or commercial center?"

A quick Google of the terms homeless shelter effect on "crime rate" pdf returned some papers such as:

The Impact of Supportive Housing on Neighborhood Crime Rates 

Housing and Public Safety 

Subsidized Housing, Emergency Shelters, and Homelessness:An Empirical Investigation Using Data from the 1990 Census

Addressing Community Opposition to Affordable Housing Development A Fair Housing Toolkit

Some are academic, others are position papers written by organizations with an obvious stake in outcomes. I don't have time to assess them for bias and agenda. Perhaps you can let us know what you find in the course of your research on this important topic.

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"I'm searching for a template or developed scenario to conduct a response exercise/drill on purposeful food contamination in the retail convenience store sector."

You might try a replay of the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack.


UPDATE: Another poster suggested DHS/FEMA National Planning Scenario 13: Biological Attack – Food Contamination. 


And CARVER + Shock.


Not cheerful stuff...

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"Interested in CPTED guidelines. Any CPP out there currently working with CPTED principles?"

There is a CPTED group at LinkedIn managed by Severin Sorenson, one of the top people in the field. He has a website with resources too.

Anything by Randall Atlas is worth reading.  His website is here.

Likewise Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design by the late Timothy Crowe is a classic in the field http://www.amazon.com/Prevention-Through-Environmental-Design-Second/dp/075067198X

In the mean time just in case you haven't read Creating Defensible Space your reference library is incomplete.

The wikipedia external links on the topic lead us to a very interesting annotated bibliography http://www.thecptedpage.wsu.edu/Resources.html

And there's the International CPTED Association.