Grant Helps Maintain Anti-Crime Program
A $225,000 federal grant will help the city keep a program that supporters say has rebuilt neighborhoods and kept at-risk children from gangs.
The grant, announced this week by the Justice Department, will allow the city to continue its “Weed and Seed” program, which has been operating in the New Horizons neighborhood since 1995 and in the Mid-City neighborhood since 1992.
The New Horizons neighborhood is bounded by Edinger and McFadden avenues and Raitt and Flower streets. Mid-City, just to the west of New Horizons, is bounded by Raitt and Sullivan streets and McFadden and Edinger avenues.
Weed and Seed combines community policing with mentorships and neighborhood beautification programs in an attempt to reduce crime and gang violence.
Justice officials boast a dramatic reduction in crime in those Santa Ana neighborhoods since the program began.
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