Day Laborer Sites

FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin,The, July, 2007

Day laborers are people who gather in public places to seek manual labor jobs, such as construction, gardening, landscaping, and farming, for predetermined wages. Issues that arise at such sites relate to parking and traffic problems, loitering, littering, destruction and defacing of property, injuries, and harassment of pedestrians, as well as crimes, such as assault, robbery of the laborers, and the consumption and sale of alcohol and other drugs.

The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) presents Disorder at Day Laborer Sites, which proposes 11 strategies likely to be effective in dealing with the problem. Law enforcement agencies need to understand the factors that contribute to their local problem to frame analysis questions, identify valid effectiveness measures, determine important intervention points, and select an appropriate set of responses. This report is available at http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/mime/open.pdf?Item=1960 or by contacting the National Criminal Justice Reference Service at 800-851-3420 or http://www.ncjrs.gov.

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