@article{Neideffer_2020, place={Ithaca, NY, USA}, title={Community Capitals Policing merges food economy and public safety, repairing decades of harm}, volume={10}, url={https://foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/902}, DOI={10.5304/jafscd.2020.101.031}, abstractNote={<p><em>First paragraphs:</em></p> <p>A local, circular food economy like the one we are building in Alameda County, California, will not only alleviate food insecurity, create jobs, and improve the environment, it is also a center­piece of our 15-year-long effort to strengthen social cohesion, repair trust, and improve public safety through a revolutionary new approach to policing. </p> <p>More than 15 years ago, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office launched a new brand of public safety, called Community Capitals Policing,<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a> in Ashland and Cherryland, two unincorporated communities just south of Oakland, California. These communities have experienced dispropor­tionate levels of crime, poverty, disinvestment, disease, unemployment, and blight since the late 1970s.</p> <p>Our work, based on the community capitals framework (Fey, Bregendahl, & Flora, 2006), is taking a systems-level approach to repair the harm done to the community over decades of systemic racism and neglect. The work is informed by a seven-year project called Food Dignity, funded by a US$5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. . . .</p> <p><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1">[1]</a> See more about Community Capitals Policing at <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q06HRbTTloOkztzVZfwBXIlFIbyT-Ccx/view">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q06HRbTTloOkztzVZfwBXIlFIbyT-Ccx/view</a></p>}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development}, author={Neideffer, Martin}, year={2020}, month={Dec.}, pages={247–249} }