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Southeast Quality of Life <br />Strateoic Neiahbnrhnnri Antinn ot.n <br />Lastly the Mayor and City Council need to provide leadership and <br />resources to the South East neighborhood. Fortunately new resources are <br />available through the crime legislation. Although, those must be <br />completed for with other. municipalities, South Bend has a reputation of <br />being successful in their planning grantsmanship. Priority needs to be <br />given to South East if this neighborhood is not to be destroyed from within <br />by crime as well as from without by the wrecking ball. It will take courage <br />on the part of the Mayor and City Council to target resources, such as <br />capital improvement funds, to this neighborhood with so many competing <br />and worthy projects to choose among and limited available resources. <br />How Does Neighborhood Security Relate to Other Task Forces? <br />The reduction of criminal activity in the neighborhood is essential to the success <br />of any of the other task forces. Crime is like a neutron bomb, you can improve <br />the physical condition of the neighborhood but without rooting out the criminal <br />elements living within the neighborhood and operating on its fringes, the <br />community regresses to its previous state of decline. <br />108 <br />