Working in Milwaukee’s highest-crime neighborhoods, the Community Partners
 are the front-line strategy of Safe & Sound’s crime-reduction initiative.  Going door-to-door, they listen to residents’ concerns, share information, and connect people to each other
 and to needed services including Safe Places and law enforcement. 
Frequent, consistent communication keeps the Partners connected to these neighborhoods.

Officer Jesus Gloria, left, and Sheriff's Deputy Leslie Wachowiak understand that close communication with residents is essential to fighting crime in our city neighborhoods.

The Partners work with residents to get rid of drug houses, open-air drug markets
 and other violent crime, helping residents take back their neighborhoods one block at a time. 
In 2006, the Partners met with 23,982 residents individually.  They helped people
start 67 block clubs and maintained 569 established clubs.  The Partners also collaborated on, and organized, 487 group activities and meetings. 

The Partners work with residents to form block clubs and watches, and organize neighbor-hood clean ups with youth, adults, elected officials, police officers and deputies.