The Lakewood Police Department is piloting a new program to help give adults who commit low-level, non-violent crimes a second chance.
– A pilot program in Lakewood is the first of its kind in the Denver Metro Area to give most low-level offenders an alternative to citations or jail time. A version of the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program already exists in Denver, where the focus is on sex workers. In Lakewood, the program focuses on adults who commit non-violent, low-level crimes and provides them with a second chance.
“We said, ‘How can we do this better? What can we do differently?’ Because the status quo is not working. Simply jailing people for drug offenses is not changing their behavior. It’s overloading the criminal justice system and we’re still seeing the crime and the disorder on the street associated with it,” said Alesch.
“So we have diversion hours right now and an agent can call me during that time and they would say, ‘Hey, I’m out with so and so and they are looking for some help,’ it’s a very low-level, non-violent crime,” said Wilson.“Where I’m kind of meeting them at the point of crisis of, ‘Hey, I’m either gonna get a ticket or I can get this program,’ and then we just start working on it,” she said.
Offenders only get one chance at diversion but if they re-offend, they can still call Wilson for help.
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