Northeast Community Survey: Final Report

Abstract

East Anchorage is currently the only site in Alaska under the nationwide Weed & Seed initiative, which is intended to “weed out” criminals who undermine quality of life for community residents in high-crime neighborhoods and to “seed in” positive practices, programs and institutions that contribute to a better quality of life for neighborhoods. The East Anchorage Weed & Seed site, located in a racially and ethnically diverse neighborhood in the northeast part of Anchorage, had an estimated population in 2001 of more than 20,000 people living in nearly 7,600 households. On behalf of East Anchorage Weed & Seed, the Justice Center conducted a community survey designed to evaluate Northeast community residents’ level of satisfaction with their neighborhood as a place to live, specifically with regards to residents' feelings about neighborhood safety, neighborhood crime levels, criminal victimization, police activity in the neighborhood, and the availability of social services. This report present results of the survey, to which a total of 275 respondents in the Northeast community responded.