Articles & Information

The High Point Police & Focused Deterrence

  1. Focused Deterrence and The High Point Police Department (PDF)

Violent Crimes Task Force (VCTF)

  1. One Citys Success in Reducing Violence (VCTF)

Drug Market Initiative (DMI)

  1. Drugs, Race and Common Ground: Reflections on the High Point Intervention (PDF)
  2. Washington Drive Residents Reclaim Their Streets (PDF)
  3. Wall Street Journal: Novel Police Tactic Puts Drug Markets Our of Business (PDF)
  4. The University of North Carolina Greensboro Research: Model Police Work (PDF)

Offender Focused Domestic Violence Initiative (DVI)

  1. Offender Focused Domestic Violence Initiative - The First Two Years (PDF)
  2. OFDVI-Implementation Documentation
  3. UNCG interim report OFDVI
  4. Assessing the Impact of a Focused Deterrence Strategy to Combat DV

High Point Community Against Violence (HPCAV)

  1. HPCAV Building a Safer High Point (2021)

48 YEARS OF PART I CRIME/IMPACT CRIME INDEXED BY YEAR

48 YEAR CRIME CHART-1

Initiative Success

The High Point Police Department Has Been Recognized for the Following Awards Stemming from it's Initiative Strategies:
  • 1999 - High Point Violent Crime Initiative won DEA Administrators Award
  • 1999 - US Department of Justice Southeast Region Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Award
  • 2000 - Top-ten finalist for the Webber Seavey Award given by the International Association of Chiefs of Police
  • 2000 - Finalist for the Herman Goldstein Award given by the Police Executive Research Forum P.E.R.F.
  • 2001 - Won Governor’s Award for Innovation in Community Policing (Large Agency)
  • 2001 - Youth Violence Initiative won the Governor’s Award for innovation in Juvenile Justice Programs
  • 2006 – Finalist for the Herman Goldstein Award
  • 2007 - National Forum on Criminal Justice & Public Safety for Outstanding Criminal Justice Program
  • 2008 – National League of Cities Gold Award Winner