Northwest Detroit Weed & Seed provides grant support the Detroit Police Department for implementation of effective law enforcement strategies in the Target Area. These grant dollars have a goal of assisting the police with their law enforcement goals that directly affect the residents in the community.

The law enforcement element consists of primarily suppression activities.  These activities include, enforcement, adjudication, prosecution, and supervision efforts designed to target, apprehend, and incapacitate violent street criminals who terrorize neighborhoods and account for a disproportionate percentage of criminal activity.

Efforts include, but are no limited to, decreasing the incidence of violent and property crimes in the target neighborhoods through the coordination of federal, state and local law enforcement support, intelligence and resources, increasing the enforcement of ordinance violations.

These efforts began early in 1995, when Northwest Detroit Weed and Seed initiated Operation Slow Down. Operation Slow Down is a creative partnership between the former 8th and 12th Precincts, Wayne County Sheriff's Department, and Michigan State Police. This law enforcement operation began as a direct result of residents in the Target Area expressing their concern for the reckless disregard of traffic laws in their neighborhoods.