Crime Prevention

The city of Detroit faces significant public safety challenges that include high rates of violent crime. A number of initiatives, including a number of federally-supported initiatives, are in place. The Detroit VRN team’s impression is that the impact of these initiatives could be enhanced through greater coordination across efforts. Analytics, technology support, and training may assist efforts to coordinate across initiatives and create greater synergies within specific agencies and across the network of local, state and federal criminal justice agencies and stakeholders.

The Chicago Police Department requests two Blue Courage Training for 30 participants each, one Blue Courage certification course for 30 participants, and technical assistance to develop internal CPD Blue Courage Master Trainers. The Blue Courage training course will provide self-improvement, increased engagement, stress management, development of resilience, and improvement of the overall health and well-being of all employees in the department.

Over the next two years the Arizona PSN site will be implementing a focused deterrence project related to violent gangs. Lt. John White was assigned to this project after the project was submitted and has little background on the pulling levers theory or focused deterrence. After attending the PSN Partner Orientation Course here in Phoenix he was invited to both Fresno and Kansas City to meet with the officers and stakeholders involved in the project and observe a call in meeting to see not only how the meetings are ran, but logistics involved in setting a meeting up.

BJA will commission a White Paper on risk assessment use in state and local sentencing decision making. The final report will be a critical tool to expand BJA's knowledge of how risk information is used, and may impact future BJA funding priorities and strategies.

BJA will identify a provider to facilitate JRI peer-to-peer technical assistance events. Similar events were held in February 2015 to share ideas, resources, and tools from sites involved in JRI efforts. This TA will expand those events to more sites involved in JRI activity.

The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices is requesting funding support for staff time needed to plan, organize, and host a two-day institute for governors’ criminal justice policy advisors and directors of state administering agencies.

Blue Courage request (one 2 day BC course) for Wilmington (DE) PD

The workshop will present information on the potential of using data gathered through a state’s BJA-sponsored Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to combat communities’ struggles with opioid use. Attendees will also have the opportunity to learn about existing partnerships in Maryland between law enforcement and the parole and probation community. These partnerships have allowed for collaboration and discussion around the results of substance abuse testing, and the relationships between releases and community services related to substance abuse and mental health.

The City of Akron Police Department requests T3 – Tact, Tactics, and Trust™ training in order to host leadership from surrounding police departments to create a joint effort to improve interaction, communication, and understanding between local police departments and the public. T3™ is the only police training program that simultaneously addresses the perceptual, cognitive, and behavioral dimensions of social interaction. It integrates the latest scientific research on managing social encounters with validated training techniques.

I would like my staff of 50 Instructors trained in the Blue Courage program.