The High Point Drug Market Intervention Strategy (Paperback)

Drug markets destroy neighborhoods, contribute to crime, and have a negative effect on communities. The arrest and jailing of drug dealers alone has not eliminated the problem. The High Point (North Carolina) Police Department, exasperated by this cyclical problem, tried a different tactic and succeeded in eliminating the city's most notorious drug markets in a little over three years. This publication, by David Kennedy and Sue-Lin Wong, tells the compelling story of High Point, and also discusses the similar success experienced in Providence, Rhode Island.