Crime Prevention

Follow-up work to initial Crime Analysis on Demand request.

To meet crime prevention needs in the City of Wilmington, the Wilmington Violence Reduction Network (VRN) requests training in Crime Prevention through Environmental

Diversity Centered & Inclusive Leadership is a transformational, experiential learning based on a workshop that blends diversity/ inclusion learning with leadership development. This intensive 3-day course targeted for Public Safety is also offered in other formats to include: a 4-hour course, a 1-day basic course, and a train-the trainer course. Areas of focus include: Understanding and Embracing Diversity and Inclusion, Building Trust within Law Enforcement and with the Community, Developing High Performance Teams, and Leadership Development.

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.

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.

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.

Our request is for an assessment of our crime analysis capabilities and assistance in improving our ability to can leverage as well as improve our analysis. We are interested in receiving training on social media network analysis to identify connections between crime victims as well as suspects as a means of predictive analysis on violent crime.

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

The Greenville Police Department would like to reduce crime by Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED). We are currently working on Fair and Impartial Policing initiatives along with Community Policing to become more active and involved in our local communities. Due to limited funds we only have two officers certified in CPTED and cannot meet the community demands.

The Los Angeles Police Department requests technical assistance with probation mapping and crime analysis.