The benefit of a community collaborative is the willingness of each stakeholder to develop cooperative agreements to improve system outcomes.  As mentioned elsewhere, the community of stakeholders considered what facets of the system needed improvement by addressing each detention decision point that included law enforcement decisions at initial contact, court intake decisions, judicial decisions at every stage of the legal proceedings, and post-disposition.  However, the more we discussed the more we uncovered that brought additional stakeholders into the discussion.  For example, an analysis of referrals in Clayton County early on revealed that over 0ne-quarter of the referrals came from the schools.  Most of those offenses were misdemeanors involving school fights, disorderly conduct, disrupting public school, and running from police.  Consequently, probation caseloads significantly increased and probation officers were kept from providing more intensive surveillance to the serious offenders; that is, the kids that scare us.