PO - Reduce Crime, Law Enforcement & Corrections Costs

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Each Outcome Objective should be clarified with a concise description of the change that is intended by this objective.   The combination of the objective description and the From-To Gap should provide added clarity in what the Objective is focused on achieving.  Neither the Outcome Objective's description nor its From-To Gaps should include the measures or target, and they should not include the strategies or actions for accomplishing the change.  Those are covered in other objectives in the strategy map (and the scorecard that will be based on the strategy map structure). 

Example of a Description of Objective

Success in strategies to reduce the misuse of opioids should lead to measurable reductions in crime due to opioid misuse, less stress and cost on law enforcement departments, and lower costs relating to justice services and incarceration.   
 

Example From-To Gap Regarding Crime Due to Opioid Misuse & Law Enforcement Costs

Current State

Desired State

People with an OUD are often actively involved in crimes as a way of getting money to pay for their addiction. Providing MAT should dramatically reduce the need for people with an OUD to commit crimes that would otherwise be committed.  This makes communities safer.
Communities and individuals suffer from three types of crimes: alcohol and substance-defined, alcohol and drug-related, and lifestyle.   Current efforts often focus on trying to deter these types of crime with the threat of punishment, which is largely ineffective.  

Adopting evidence-based strategies has led to the reduction in all three types of crimes. 

  • A combination of prevention, treatment and pre-arrest diversion has significantly reduced substance-defined crimes. 
  • A combintion of MAT and support for jobs during recovery has greatly reduced crime by people struggling with an OUD.
  • Helping people move from active addiction to supported recovery has reduced lifestyle crimes. 
High law enforcement costs due to accidental overdoses and the previously mentioned types of crime.  Reduction in law enforcement costs have been realized and communicated.  This helps build the return on investment case for spending money on prevention, treatment and recovery supports.