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Jordan LizClass of 2005 - Present Eagles Academy for Young Men Topic: 2006 Topic: The Security Of Homeless Shelters in NYC About: Many of the New York City homeless shelters are not fit to house a homeless person because of the high level of crime. The cause of the high crime in homeless shelters is due to their poor security. Although a large amount of crime occurs at the shelters, it is not the fault of the shelter employees because of the number of homeless people in a shelter is often too great compared to the number of workers in that same shelter. According to a report entitled “NYPD To Assign Cops To City Homeless Shelters”, which aired on February 4, 2002 on channel seven Eyewitness News, in some shelters there are about a dozen security guards while there are approximately three hundred and fifty homeless people that are using that shelter as their temporary home. In other words, there are about thirty homeless people for every security officer. In order for security guards to provide adequate protection to the homeless, we believe this ratio has to change by adding more security guards to shelters. We propose to create a program at shelters that increase the amount of security in shelters by adding more security guards as well as other devices, such as metal detectors, in order to make shelters safe to live in. |