Resource Results
The Los Angeles Police Department received a grant from BJA to establish the Los Angeles Crime Gun Intelligence Center (LA CGIC), a collaboration that focuses on the collection, management, and analysis of crime gun data and seeks to reduce gun-related crime. This report provides background information about the formation of the LA CGIC and evaluates the program using data and information gathered through interviews and observations of meetings and activities of the LA CGIC partners.… Read More
This study presents an evaluation of the Crime Gun Intelligence Center (CGIC) initiative in Milwaukee conducted by a research partner team from the National Police Foundation and George Mason University. The report covers the operations and impacts of the CGIC program from 2014 through 2017. In summary, the evaluation suggests that the CGIC program in Milwaukee has high strategic value in targeting the city's gun violence prevention efforts.
This resource includes chapters that focus on the following areas: Recovered Ballistic Evidence; The Strategic Use of Crime Gun Tracing and Its Relation to NIBIN; Considerations for Federal and Local Prosecutors; and Crime Gun Intelligence Center Implementation Checklist.
In 2018, the Lincoln Police Department received more than 3,300 mental health calls for service, or just over 60 calls per week that involved a person in crisis.
Here in Nebraska’s capital city, a small group of mental health consumers generate a disproportionate number of these calls for service. About 5% of the individuals who need our attention during a mental health crisis account for 25% of all of our mental health calls for service.
A pressing challenge for law enforcement agencies is how to effectively respond to people they routinely encounter. Often known as "high utilizers," these individuals come into frequent contact with law enforcement officers or other emergency services -- usually for low-level, misdemeanor crimes or non-emergent concerns -- and many have unmet behavioral health, housing, or other social services needs. For example, in Camden, New Jersey, 5 percent of adults accounted for 25 percent of all… Read More
The Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP) promotes innovative cross-system collaboration and provides grants directly to states, local governments, and federally recognized Indian tribes. It is designed to improve responses to people with mental illnesses who are involved in the criminal justice system. JMHCP funding requires collaboration with a mental health agency.
Jails have operated as a fundamental component of the local criminal justice system in this country since its establishment; yet, little is known and understood about how they operate and what works in these settings. The good news is that this shortfall serves as an excellent opportunity for researchers to fill the void and provide useful information and insight to jail practitioners. Researchers who desire access to local jails in order to successfully conduct studies need to know how to… Read More
The longstanding general trend of declining violent crime in the United States, which began in the 1990s, has reversed direction in recent years. The 2018 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is the third consecutive iteration of the NCVS to find that the number of violent-crime victims was higher than in 2015. According to the NCVS, the number of U.S. residents age 12 or older who were victims of violent crime decreased from 2014 to 2015 (the most recent year that a decline was… Read More
The Collaborative Reform Initiative Technical Assistance Center is a partnership between the COPS Office and leading professional law enforcement organizations throughout the field to provide technical assistance to law enforcement agencies on request. In its first year, the center fielded more than 150 requests for assistance from campus, local, county, and state agencies on critical issues like school safety, active shooter response, de-escalation, crisis intervention, and intelligence… Read More
People released from prison or jail face a new set of challenges around reentering the community and avoiding recidivism. Programs that offer returning individuals support in obtaining education, employment, and housing can help them reintegrate successfully, but these programs also have an obligation to serve public safety and maintain cost-effectiveness. NIJ-supported research has shown that there is no one-size-fits-all model for successful reentry.
