Crime Prevention

The Arkansas City Kansas Police Department is requesting assistance to bring in the Blue Courage, Heart and Mind of the Guardian two day seminar. We are a small agency of 26 sworn officers with a limited training budget and expansive training needs. The Arkansas City Police Department had a change in the upper management within the last year with the retirement of the Chief and Captain. As the new Chief, I am looking for the best training opportunities which will benefit not only the officer, but the whole agency and the community we serve.

The Weare Police Department has [historically] experienced significant failures in leadership. Allegations of removing alcohol from the evidence room for personal use, supervisors brawling, fraudulent reporting of time worked, etcetera’s have plagued the agency and distracted it from its’ mission for a decade or more. One year ago, a change agent was selected as Chief of Police…and was forced to resign after ten months following affirmed allegations of misconduct. At the time of the COP’s resignation, Mr.

In August 2014 the City of Wilmington was selected to participate in the DOJ's Violence Reduction Network. Within this program, over the next two years Wilmington will be seeking assistance from the BJA in the areas of technology, crime analysis, intelligence, grant preparation and community building.

This TTA request is entitled "Merging Counter-Terrorism Targeting Methodology and Place-Based Crime Project." It utilizes background and details of a methodology developed at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). This methodology has shown applicability to modeling criminal events and will be demonstrated to the Detroit Police Department (DPD) using their crime events to evaluate the technology. Finally, the technology will be tested in an operational use case.

The Purdue University Police Department (Purdue PD) is seeking training in order to implement a Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and general campus crime prevention initiative. A CPTED training will give the officers greater knowledge and skills to work further with the university community and provide campus stakeholders with quality education in the area of community crime prevention.

The City of Apache Junction is located to the east of the Phoenix metropolitan area. The city has an estimated population of over 36,000 with an influx of over 20,000 seasonal residents in the winter months. The Apache Junction Police Department has 57 sworn officers. In 2009, the average ratio of officers to citizens in the US was about 2.3 officers per one thousand residents. One in four adults, approximately 61.5 million Americans experiences mental illness in a given year.

Dane County, Wisconsin is home to the world cass University of Wisconsin-Madison, home of the state capitol and commonly voted on our nation's best of's lists. Unfortunately, in the criminal justice system we are rank as United States most disparite county between African-American and white populations. Dane county is piloting a new Community Restorative Court aimed at the 17-25 year old population. r

The Milwaukee Police Department is looking for crime analysis technical assistance services to reduce violent crime among youth in Milwaukee. This request was prompted by a surge in youth violence and deaths in Milwaukee.

My police unit is part of a much larger collaborative effort called the Kansas City No Violence Alliance. Kansascitynova.org... We are currently working to implement a Byrne Grant project in a very violent corridor of our city's urban core. Four officers and myself will be working in this corridor with community based organizations to implement a focused deterrence policing strategy and to apply CPTED principles to a commercial corridor revitalization effort.