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Cook County Sheriff's Reentry Council Quarterly Update (Volume 1, Issue 1: September, 2009), David E. Olson

Criminal Justice & Criminology: Faculty Publications & Other Works

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

• Sheriff Forms Reentry Council
• First systematic effort to measure recidivism of jail releasees in Cook County
• During calendar year (CY)2008, more than 74,985 individuals were booked into the Cook County Jail nearly 93,000 times
• Reentry Council produces video for detainees
• Sheriff applies for federal support forreentry programs
• Cook County Jail is the largest single-site jail facility in the country
• 85% of males booked into Cook County Jail tested positive for illegal drugs in 2008

Organizational Approaches To Drug Law Enforcement By Local Police Departments In The United States: Specialized Drug Units And Participation In Multi-Agency Drug Task Forces, Robert M. Lombardo, David E. Olson

Criminal Justice & Criminology: Faculty Publications & Other Works

This paper examines the factors associated with the decision of local police departments in the United States to operate specialized drug units or to participate in multi-jurisdictional drug task forces. Combining data from the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) Survey, the 2000 Census, and the Uniform Crime Report, we use both bivariate and multivariate methods to conduct the analysis. The findings indicate that county-level agencies, those with other formalized drug control efforts, high levels of violent crime, high degrees of task specialization and formalization, and high proportions of the resident population accounted for by renters were more likely …