Safe City Commission

Crime Stoppers began in Albuquerque, New Mexico in September 1976 when concerned citizens joined with local media and law enforcement in aneffort to help curb crime. Individuals calling with information leading to the arrest of a person or persons involved in felony offenses were paid a cash reward. To preserve program integrity, informants were never required to give their names.

The Crime Stoppers program has enjoyed tremendous success, boasting an average conviction rate of 95% on cases solved by Crime Stoppers’ tips. Today, there are more than 1,200 Crime Stoppers programs in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, Central America, and the Caribbean. Collectively, these programs have solved more than half a million crimes, and recovered about $7 billion in stolen property and narcotics worldwide.

In this same tradition, Crime Stoppers of Tarrant County utilizes information from anonymous tipsters to arrest felony offenders. Since its inception in1982 in Tarrant County, Crime Stoppers has paid more than $1.6 million in rewards and recovered nearly $30 million in property and narcotics. Additionally, over 7,200 offenders have been arrested, with more than 12,200 cases cleared.

The Imagine No Violence campaign was launched with an event held at Bass Hall in November 2001. More than 1,200 high school students gathered at the event, with delegations from each Fort Worth ISD high school reporting on their concepts of "Imagining No Violence". In several follow-up meetings, students developed the idea of promoting nonviolence through the creation of original artwork--thus the Imagine No Violence art contest was born.

Each school year more than 45,000 Tarrant County area students participate in the contest. Imagine No Violence artwork has reached millions of people through multi-media campaigns promoting nonviolence and offering practical ways for citizens to prevent crime and violence.

Camp Hope Texas is proudly affiliated with Camp Hope America

Camp Hope Texas is a week-long overnight camping adventure for children who have been exposed to domestic violence. Campers, through a special curriculum developed around traditional camp activities, gain independence along with the skills and hope they need to break the generational cycle of violence.

Most importantly, children who typically live very stressful lives get the chance to know the simple joys of childhood. In addition to summer camp, follow up enrichment activities throughout the year give campers a chance to maintain friendships that began at camp.

Without Camp Hope Texas many children would never have the opportunity to experience summer camp and would miss their best chance to develop a healthy sense of self and hope for the future. All children deserve to have a childhood, and all children should know life doesn’t have to be filled with violence.

The vision of Camp Hope Texas is to break the generational cycle of violence by
offering healing and hope to kids exposed to violence in the home.

About the Bike Patrol Support Group

The Police Bike Support Group is a committee of One Safe Place, the Tarrant County Crime Prevention Agency. The PBSG assists officers of the Fort Worth Police Bike Patrol Unit and other bike-certified officers across the department by providing equipment, uniforms, special training, and recognition. Through community oriented programs the PBSG promotes the value of bike patrol to the city of Fort Worth. In addition the PBSG also funds the annual police civilian awards banquet, retirement awards for the police civilian employees, special crime prevention initiatives and other special requests from the department. The PBSG only accepts funding requests for things that are not typically funded in the annual police department budget.

The Bike Patrol Support Group operates under the direction of a Board of Trustees and the Board meets monthly at the One Safe Place offices at 1100 Hemphill St. in Fort Worth. The PBSG currently has an annual budget of approximately $245,000, mainly through individual contributions and two major fundraisers held each year. The first fundraiser, usually held in May, is Big Guns in Cowtown held at Del Frisco's in Fort Worth. The second fundraiser is the Shoot for the Blue Sporting Clay Shoot held each October at the Beaumont Ranch in Grandview, Texas.

In addition to providing specialized equipment, the PBSG sends Fort Worth Police bicycle officers to advanced bicycle training and certification programs, provides special recognition awards and conducts an annual awards banquet/picnic to recognize outstanding performance.

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The Project Safe Neighborhood Program (PSN) is designed to create safer neighborhoods and to reduce gun and gang violence by employing a research-driven, intelligence-led, and problem-solving approach to crime prevention.

The program’s effectiveness is based on this cooperation of local, state and federal agencies engaged in a united approach led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas. The Tarrant County multi-disciplinary partnership is called the Criminal Incident Response Team or CIRT and uses the five design features of PSN, partnership, strategic planning, training, outreach and accountability.