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| Survey Wants To Stop Repeat Offenders |
| By news-press.com |
| Published: 04/05/2010 |
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A survey conducted by the Fort Myers Police Department shows the majority of recently released prisoners moving back to the city are parents with limited transportation who lack driver's licenses and higher education and have been incarcerated several times. Most were men between 20 and 34 and almost 40 percent were locked up for drug-related offenses. Nearly 75 percent had been behind bars before, with 64 percent incarcerated three times or more. The odds may appear against them, but Chief Doug Baker said the voluntary survey of 421 convicts was an opportunity to determine which needs have to be met to steer them from returning to crime. "I wanted to have a better insight into who we were dealing with," Baker said. "The end goal for us is crime reduction, but we're trying to direct people in a way that will help them to be better residents and neighbors." It stems from a program called COPE - Community Offender, Probation and Education - which started in September. Three officers are assigned to monitor about 520 convicts in the three ZIP codes - 33901, 33916 and 33905 - that comprise central and east Fort Myers. They represent about 13 percent of the approximately 4,000 people on probation or parole throughout the county, though not all of those in COPE are under state supervision. The majority - 78 percent - plan to continue living in the Fort Myers area. Read More. |
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