Just a few ideas to give to your local councilors, Detroit was an amazing project it made Accy look like Switzerland before they started and now the city is so clean and litter free.
http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/kcc/motorcity.htm
Opened just last month, the Justice Center is one of a handful of
"community courts"across the country that re-envision how the criminal justice system should operate, alternative sentences -- such as cleaning up a neighborhood parks -- aim to make punishment visible while putting offenders to work in their communities. The Red Hook Justice Center joins the Midtown Community Court, which opened in Manhattan in 1993. A similar court in Harlem will open later this year. All three are designed to address one of the criminal justice system's most glaring failures: those arrested for low-level offences often are back on the streets in a matter of weeks or months, committing crimes such as graffitti and vandalism, after cleaning it up they are the ones who police it.
More defendants in the Midtown Community Court who are sentenced to community service actually do it than in any other criminal court in the city.