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| Albuquerque gets $225,000 for Crime Prevention and Neighborhood Revitalization |
August 14, 2001 |
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| Wilson welcomes U.S. Attorney General to Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico — The City of Albuquerque is due to receive a federal Department of Justice grant for $225,000 for the City’s Operation Weed and Seed strategy. Attorney General John Ashcroft was in Albuquerque today to announce the grant.
This award will help Albuquerque coordinate strategies for eliminating drug and gang activity, decrease prostitution, and foster community and law enforcement partnerships in the Trumbull and La Mesa neighborhoods.
“The Trumbell and La Mesa neighborhoods have seen an incredible transformation since the Weed and Seed program began in 1998,” said Representative Heather Wilson, the federal lawmaker who represents the Albuquerque area. “The fact that the United States Attorney General came to Albuquerque to personally announce this funding is a tribute to the people who have worked so hard to reclaim their neighborhoods.”
Administered by the Executive Office for Weed and Seed, in the Department`s Office of Justice Programs, Operation Weed and Seed is a community-based, multi-agency strategy that "weeds out" violent crime, gang activity, drug use and drug trafficking in targeted neighborhoods and then "seeds" the target area by restoring these neighborhoods through social and economic revitalization. Albuquerque`s Weed and Seed sites have been awarded funds totaling $825,000 since Albuquerque was first designated as an official Weed and Seed site in 1998.
To learn more about the Weed and Seed strategy and other Weed and Seed programs and conferences, visit the EOWS Website at www.ojp.usdoj.gov/eows. Information regarding other OJP bureaus and program offices is available at www.ojp.usdoj.gov. Media should contact OJP`s Office of Congressional and Public Affairs at 202/307-0703.
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