Purpose

Justice Watch Tucson is designed to provide a public eye on the justice system affecting citizens of Tucson, Arizona. The program aims to more actively insert public interests and values into the justice system and to maximize public order and the wellbeing of Tucsonans.

Public order is the absence of disorder. Disorder comes in many flavors, from simple neighbor squabbles and trashy yards to loud parties, graffiti, petty theft and serious crime. The justice system is an important societal mechanism to restore public order when individual restraint fails or simple person to person influence on the behavior of others is insufficient. Justice Watch Tucson wants the justice system to operate at an optimum level. It wants the forces of law and order to reduce the likelihood of future illegal and discordant behavior, and to do so efficiently and effectively.

Friday, October 26, 2012

Formative Meeting

Three members of the Tucson Graffiti Action Forum and the Neighborhood Support Network met October 26, 2012 to initiate planning for the establishment of Justice Watch Tucson. Donald Ijams, Nancy Huff and Lois Pawlak of Tucson met to review the need for such a program, to review values that stand behind the effort, to lay out the vision for the program and to begin designing a work program. Justice Watch Tucson will be a broad based program, not just focused on graffiti reduction.
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