
Seattle's a "pilot test" community. The City of Seattle is currently performing ABCD interviews in "Capitol Hill, Greenwood-Phinney Ridge, International District, and North Beacon Hill for training and surveying of their individual community assets." "In partnership with Northwestern University's Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute, the Asset-Based Community Development Training Group has developed a program designed for neighborhood professionals and community leaders familiar with ABCD basic principles. John Kretzmann and John McKnight published "Building Communities from the Inside Out" in 1993, which inspired a wide variety of local community-building work across America."|
Hello. I'm with (local organization's name). We're talking to local people about their skills. With this information, we hope to help people contribute to improving the neighborhood, find jobs or start businesses. May I ask you some questions about your skills and abilities? Part I -- Skills Information Now I'm going to read to you a list of skills. {They assume you can't read-Ed.} It's an extensive list, so I hope you'll bear with me. I'll read the skills and you just say "yes" whenever we get to one you have. We are interested in all your skills and abilities. They may have been learned through experience in the home or with your family. They may be skills you've learned at church or in the community. They may also be skills you have learned on the job. {This ABCD interview is 11 pages long and it includes personally identifiable information about the respondent: name, address, etc.-Ed.} |
Community Policing Services (COPS) in the U.S. is a federal program authorized under the Violent Crime Act of 1994. Under Clinton and Reno, COPS' hiring grants put 100,000 federal police into local law enforcement agencies across America in the first two years. Local governments were offered a $2000 bonus for every COP hired with 2 years prior military service. The 2003 Brochure for the Community Policing Conference (pdf) gave us the following "Snapshots: COPS has invested a total of 9.6 billion nationwide since 1994; COPS has invested more than 1 billion in technology grants; COPS has awarded more than 34.9 million to advance police integrity." 

ALL new American COPS' "laws" are tied directly to Rebuilding (safe and crime free) Communities, and Local Agenda 21 Plans, and every COPS' law violates U.S. national and state constitutional laws. Yet, little attention has been paid to the COPS' ideology or to their tremendous input during local visionings and community planning meetings. President Bush's Reform Agenda and Federal Management Seminars train federal employees in everything from managing human capital to implementing "green" lifestyles. In a very weird similarity, The Executive Management Scorecard uses the same green, yellow, and red light indicators used by CAPPS to identify dangerous passengers making airline reservations.