Project Grant 2020DGBX0007

The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection in Connecticut received a $700,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance to develop a statewide Connecticut Gun Intelligence Center (CGIC). Funded through the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG, CFDA 16.738), the CGIC will centralize gun crime intelligence and forensic information to enhance investigations and prosecutions across...

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program (CFDA 16.738) to the National Policing Institute (NPI) to provide training and technical assistance (TTA) to agencies implementing Crime Gun Intelligence Centers (CGICs). The funding will enable NPI to deliver in-depth TTA to CGIC grantees, develop educational publications and tools, host annual CGIC conferences, and offer TTA to non-grantee...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) was awarded a $700,000 Project Grant under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (CFDA 16.738) by the Bureau of Justice Assistance to establish a Crime Gun Intelligence Center (CGIC). The LASD CGIC will partner with several local and federal agencies to focus on reducing gang-related shootings and murders in the Century and Compton station areas. Funding will support personnel, equipment, supplies, training, and...

The City of Chicago will receive $699,831 under a Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance to implement the Chicago Gun Investigations Collaboration (CGIC) business practice in seven Project Safe Neighborhood districts. Funds will be used to hire an operations analyst dedicated to assisting with prosecution of qualifying CGIC cases, purchase a comparison microscope for the police ballistics lab to prioritize gun cases from...

The City of Newark Police Department (NPD) was awarded $700,000 under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (CFDA 16.738) by the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance on October 1, 2022. The three-year project grant will support the establishment of a Crime Gun Intelligence Center to enhance gun crime investigations and reduce violent crime in Newark, New Jersey. Specifically, $140,000 (20%) will be allocated to the Essex County...

The Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded a $1,150,000 Project Grant under the Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753) to the Attorney General of New Mexico. The funding will be used to purchase and deploy IBIS BrassTRAX workstations in four strategic locations across New Mexico. This will expand the state's capacity to collect gun casings from shooting incidents and feed that information into its Crime Gun Intelligence Center. The intelligence center will...

The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI), a division of the Judiciary Courts of the State of Indiana, was awarded a $149,130 two-year Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics under the State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers (CFDA 16.550). This project seeks to increase public access to Indiana crime data by creating interactive Tableau-based visualizations on the ICJI website, allowing users to explore trends in...

The Bureau of Justice Assistance, through the Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753), awarded the City of Philadelphia $615,000 to implement the Group Violence Intervention (GVI) Program Expansion. This project will expand the existing GVI gun violence reduction strategy to serve juveniles aged 12-18 years through case management, mediation, service coordination, and other supportive services. The initiative aims to interrupt cycles of retaliation, teach that violence is not...

The Pinal County Gun Crime Reduction Program is a $552,424 Project Grant awarded under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (CFDA 16.738) by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance. The grant will fund the acquisition of a NIBIN terminal and establishment of a gun crime task force to investigate firearms-related violent crimes in Pinal County, Arizona and surrounding jurisdictions. Key activities include the real-time collection, analysis, and information...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (CFDA 16.554 - National Criminal History Improvement Program) provides $603,450 to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) to support overtime costs for the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) to conduct enhanced reviews of firearms background checks for individuals under 21 years old. Specifically, the funding will enable the PICS Operations Section of the PSP to research these...