What We Do

Operation Weed and Seed is a comprehensive, joint law enforcement and community investment strategy designed to help make communities safer, so that other resources will be attracted to those communities.

A multi-agency strategy to "weed out" violent crime, gang activity, drug use, and drug trafficking in targeted high-crime neighborhoods, Operation Weed and Seed also "seeds" the target area by helping to restore those neighborhoods through social and economic revitalization.

Four elements make up Weed and Seed:

• Law enforcement
• Community policing
• Prevention, intervention and treatment
• Neighborhood restoration

Principal components of Weed and Seed:

• Coordination and concentration of resources in specific geographic areas
• Private sector investment
• Community involvement