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seizure training. These will help us interact professionally with our diverse community. We have partnered with Ivy Tech to become a Long .Distance Learning site for the IN Law Enforcement Academy. This will allow for more local classes and help to make training more affordable for azea police agencies. When remodeling of the police station is completed in 2005, we will have enhanced training facilities, an indoor firing range and user friendly headquarters to support the efforts of our front line personnel. It will also more effectively serve the public. South Bend Police Department continues to build strong paztnerships and take proactive efforts to fight crime and build a safe city. Several tazgeted partnerships will enhance efforts to reduce violence and gang activity. We aze joining with the ATFE (Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives), US Attorney, Prosecutor's Office and local law enforcement agencies to form a Gang and Gun Violence Task Force. This will supplement the Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative and the efforts of our Gang Intervention Unit, which is building a database to identify and disrupt gang activity. In 2003 we added two investigators to the Family Violence and Special Victims Unit, and we aze supporting a grant application to provide coordinated caze for victims. Our Fraud Crimes unit was the lead agency in a multi-state effort involving numerous identity thefts. We participate in the DEA task force dealing with high-level nazcotics investigations. We also have a strong presence at the street levE;1. MSOS seized $11,000,000 worth of drugs (and 179 weapons). We sent 119 Notices to Abate wader the Drug House Ordinance and 23 Notices to abate Disorderly Houses. NEST refocused on nuisance properties. They made 107 prostitution arrests, did 84 drug investigations, 178 knot:k and talks, issued 865 citations, made 709 total arrests and recovered 17 firearms. We added three K 9s to the department -one with NEST, one with the Bomb Squad and one for patrol. They aze cross-trained to detect either drugs or explosives. What is the end result of all these efibrts? Crime is down 7% from 2002 and down 30% since 1996. During the time that I have been mayor, all major crime categories aze down, from an 11% reduction in Aggravated Assault to a 43% reduction in Residential Bwrglaries. Larcenies, Robberies, Residential Bwrglaries and Motor Vehicle Thefts aze all at their lowest level in at least a A-28