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Six Prince George’s County communities will get some extra attention from the county government, as officials believe assisting the areas will help cut down on crime and improve economic development.

“We are going be more proactive instead of reactive,” County Executive Rushern L. Baker’s III (D) said Wednesday during the announcement of his Transforming Neighborhoods Initiative. “We are going to bring everything we have to bear on our problems to create solutions for us all.”

Under the initiative, six department leaders in Baker’s administration will lead TNI teams in the six areas — East Riverdale/Bladensburg, Glassmanor, Hillcrest Heights/Marlow Heights, Kentland/Palmer Park, Langley Park and Suitland/Coral Hills — and work collaboratively with community members to familiarize themselves with problems and work to address them.

Baker presented the program, which he said would provide a holistic approach utilizing county services such as the police and fire departments, sheriff’s department, state’s attorney’s office and economic development department to aid some of the county’s most vulnerable communities, at Glassmanor Elementary School in Oxon Hill.

Baker’s staff looked at crime statistics from a concentrated 2011 summer crime prevention initiative and found that many of the perpetrators were coming from the targeted areas, said Baker’s communications manager, Barry Hudson.

“These areas were selected based on crime, school statistics, health-care

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