ABSTRACT
Planning in the 1990s must become more comprehensive, with a broadened set of considerations defining the outlook and responsibilities of practitioners. This chapter details why planners should become more professionally involved with safety and security issues and how they can demonstrate that their knowledge and skills are well-suited for formulating effective neighborhood solutions to these problems. Planners must consider the impacts of crime in order to create realistic plans. Planners should remember that security considerations ought to be important factors in the siting and design of neighborhood residences, commercial structures, and public facilities. Most Local Development Organizations (LDOs) now have the same knowledge and awareness of crime and community policing as the rest of the planning profession. LDOs have the economic and community development skills, organizational capability, neighborhood and government contacts, and ability to innovate that the police can never hope to duplicate without jeopardizing their own mission.
