“I’m not so sure we would have had the vision to move 2,500 employees to a campus in Phillips three and a half years ago because of some of the issues that existed in the neighborhood, but we were convinced that real progress was being made. We want to be a catalyst to help this progress continue. That doesn’t say there isn’t a lot more work to be done, but there’s clearly progress.”
                   ~ Jim Campbell, C.E.O. Wells Fargo Bank

Since 1988, West Phillips residents and employees working in the neighborhood have met monthly at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. The Community Crime Prevention Initiative (CCPI) meets the fourth Tuesday of each month to discuss neighborhood safety concerns and plan crime prevention actions. Minneapolis police officers representing the S.A.F.E. Unit attend meetings, providing residents with current neighborhood crime statistics. The officers provide information and advice from sex offender notification to clues on spotting a potential meth lab in the neighborhood.

The concept behind CCPI is broader than crime prevention. CCPI also functions as a tool to develop and strengthen community involvement and raise community awareness. CCPI has assisted in the organization of numerous events in the neighborhood to bring people together including annual neighborhood trash pickups, a health and safety fair and National Night Out.

Phillips Partners supported Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton and Minneapolis police in the creation of a new crime tracking and police deployment system. CODEFOR fights crime by supporting community-oriented policing and new strategies that use technology to better anticipate, track, and respond to crime trends.