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Operation Safe Streets and Gun Bounty Initiatives Update
Operation Safe Streets
Gun Crime = Hard Time.
Click here to read about the Sheriff's initiative, Operation Safe Streets, a law enforcement response to the community issue of murder.
Click here to view the Operation Safe Streets presentation.
Gun Bounty
The local business community joins fight to reduce murder rate as Chamber pledges $200,000 toward JSO's Operation Safe Streets.
Press Release
Press Conference Video
Operation Safe Streets Public Awareness Campaign
As part of our Operation Safe Streets murder and gun violence reduction campaign, a media campaign is being launched for the Gun Bounty program promoting the SEE IT, SAY IT, STOP IT message.
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Hero Thanks for your call, hero (:30)
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Crime Stand up to crime, take back your neighborhood (:30)
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Grand Reporting crime may be worth $1000 (:30)
- Brochures and Pamphlets
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Radio
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Hero Thanks for your call, hero (:29)
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Grand Reporting crime may be worth $1000 (:29)
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Billboard
Teen Driver Challenge
2008
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, in partnership with the Florida Sheriff’s Association, encourages teenagers to take the “Teen Driver Challenge.” The Teen Challenge is a two-day driver’s education course proven to help reduce traffic crashes. Licensed teen drivers ages 16-19 are eligible to participate in the classes.
Click here to learn more about the 2008 Teen Driver Challenge classes.
Six Pillars of Character Award 
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office has partnered with Character Counts! in Jacksonville to present the first monthly Six Pillars of Character Award at the March Meritorious Awards Ceremony. The award is for any JSO employee who demonstrates one of the Six Pillars of Character; trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. Nominations are open to the public.
Click here to access the Six Pillars of Character online nomination form.
Click here to learn about the Inaugural Six Pillars of Character recipient.
Operation Street Sweep
A brochure with 10 traffic safety tips to reduce your chances of being involved in a serious traffic crash.
Justice and The Revolving Door: The Jacksonville Experience in Recidivism Intervention
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| Governor Jeb Bush signs legislation on June 23, 2004, to stop the revolving door and make intervention and treatment a possibility as Sheriff Rutherford looks on. |
A PowerPoint presentation. (969KB) This file requires MicroSoft PowerPoint or MicroSoft PowerPoint Viewer. If you do not have PowerPoint installed on your computer, a free copy of PowerPoint Viewer is available by clicking here.
Operation Showdown
Operation Showdown is an on-going law enforcement program was implemented in two areas of Jacksonville with a taskforce of hand-picked patrol officers in 2004. The initiative addressed drug trafficking activities as well as low-level criminal activities such as trespassing, loitering, and the presence of suspicious persons. Operation Showdown uses the basic premise of the "Broken Window" theory, which states that allowing such activities to continue increases the potential that higher-level crimes will soon occur.
Showdown Evaluation
This presentation portrays what has occurred in the Showdown locations since the inception of the Sheriff Rutherford's Operation Showdown. Using maps that show a concentration of activity, the presentation describes how the locations were chosen and what has happened in these two locations since January 2004. The presentation also demonstrates an initiative in Zone 2 (Arlington) that was started which closely follows the tenets of Operation Showdown.
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Anti-Litter Initiative
The Sheriff has also initiated an anti-litter campaign as shown in this PowerPoint presentation. This file requires the user to have MicroSoft PowerPoint or MicroSoft PowerPoint Viewer. If you do not have PowerPoint installed on your computer, a free copy of PowerPoint Viewer is available by clicking here. Note that this file is large (5.6Mb) and may take up to 30 minutes to download, depending on download speed.
