The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the One Neighborhood for Everyone Collaborative

Publication Date: December 01, 1997

In the early 1990s, crime begins to spiral out of control in the rapidly growing Penwood/Arville neighborhood of Las Vegas, the fastest-growing city in the U.S. Police, however, face a series of obstacles in their efforts to control it. The...

Norfolk's Police Assisted Community Enforcement (PACE): The Bay View and East Norview Neighborhoods

Publication Date: December 01, 1997

In the early 1990s, two quite different neighborhoods in Norfolk, Virginia are both struggling against crime. In Bay View, crime is an exceptional problem in select areas, marring a generally safe neighborhood. In East Norview, drugs and violent...

Vaccines for the Developing World: The Challenge to Justify Tiered Pricing (Sequel)

Publication Date: November 01, 1997

This microeconomics case examines the pricing issues related to the sale of inexpensive vaccines for use in developing countries. The case describe the historic success of the United Nations' so-called "tiered pricing" policy. This policy had...

Vaccines for the Developing World: The Challenge to Justify Tiered Pricing

Publication Date: November 01, 1997

This microeconomics case examines the pricing issues related to the sale of inexpensive vaccines for use in developing countries. The case describe the historic success of the United Nations' so-called "tiered pricing" policy. This policy had...

San Francisco's Juvenile Justice System: Trying to Do Right by Kids Who Do Wrong (Sequel)

Publication Date: September 01, 1997

This juvenile justice policy case describes the strategic challenge faced by a San Francisco consultant, asked by the city's Mayor Willie Brown, to resolve a bitter and long-standing dispute as to how to structure the city's approach to youthful...

Central Complaint & Info. Service for Louisville: City Call (B)

Publication Date: September 01, 1997

The belief of Louisville, Kentucky, Mayor Jerry Abramson in improved service to citizen "customers" leads to the 1989 establishment of a centralized complaint/information system, a single phone number to which complaints or inquiries about any...

McCaffrey Takes Command (Epilogue)

Publication Date: September 01, 1997

In late 1995, General Barry McCaffrey--a hero of the Persian Gulf and Vietnam Wars and head of the US Army's Southern Command--was approached by the Clinton Administration to "consider" the job of "drug czar"--officially known as the head of the...

A Czar Among Bureaucrats: General Barry McCaffrey Considers a Role in the War on Drugs

Publication Date: September 01, 1997

In late 1995, General Barry McCaffrey--a hero of the Persian Gulf and Vietnam Wars and head of the US Army's Southern Command--was approached by the Clinton Administration to "consider" the job of "drug czar"--officially known as the head of the...

Mano Dura Mobilizing the National Guard to Battle Crime in Puerto Rico (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 02, 1997

Chaos and disorder in the public housing system of San Juan, Puerto Rico (second largest in the US) prompt the newly-elected governor Pedro Rosello to consider an unprecedented new approach: using the island's national guard troops to patrol the...

Mano Dura: Mobilizing the National Guard to Battle Crime in Puerto Rico

Publication Date: January 02, 1997

Chaos and disorder in the public housing system of San Juan, Puerto Rico (second largest in the US) prompt the newly-elected governor Pedro Rosello to consider an unprecedented new approach: using the island's national guard troops to patrol the...

Taking on Big Tobacco: David Kessler and the FDA (Abridged)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

Food and Drug Commissioner David Kessler's landmark 1996 decision to propose regulation of tobacco as a drug marked him as one of the most prominent appointees in the first Clinton Administration -- one both revered and reviled. Kessler's...

Elks Clubs, Settlement Houses, Labor Unions and the Anti-Saloon League: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century America Copes with Change

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

The mid- to late 19th century saw dramatic changes in American society, with the coming of industrialization and immigration. A relatively rural, culturally homogeneous society was swamped by economic and social upheaval. And yet the nation was...