The eastern district of new york (edny) is an urban-metropolitan district with more than eight million residents

This $395,927 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA 16.609 - Project Safe Neighborhoods) will support the Eastern District of New York (EDNY) in implementing a comprehensive strategy to reduce violent crime, gun violence, and gang activity in high-crime areas of Suffolk and Nassau County, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. The grant funding will be utilized by the EDNY to enhance existing data-driven, intelligence-led policing efforts through targeted enforcement and prosecution of violent offenders. Additionally, the award will enable community outreach, public education, youth initiatives, and violence prevention workshops to foster safer neighborhoods across the region. The Rosamons Gifford Charitable Corp, a non-profit organization and fiscal agent, will manage the administrative and financial aspects of the grant on behalf of the EDNY and its partner law enforcement agencies and community organizations.

The district will utilize a sustained reduction in violent crime strategies to address violent crime and to reduce gun and gang violence in high crime areas of suffolk and nassau county, brooklyn, queens and staten island. Project safe neighborhoods (PSN) funds directed to suffolk and nassau county will be used to implement strategies that build on the new york state sponsored gun involved violence elimination (give) structure and provide enhancements to existing strategies that use crime analysis and intelligence gathering to direct its operations. PSN funds will go to the suffolk and nassau county police department for targeted enforcement and prosecution of these mostly young top offenders. Additionally, funding will allow for the implementation of community outreach, public education, youth initiatives, and violence protection workshops that will further the district's and the department of justice's joint mission to create and foster safer neighborhoods through a sustained reduction in violent crime. In addition, the edny will concentrate PSN attention on shooting incidents in brooklyn, queens, and staten island. The new york city police department (nypd) will support its efforts to address shootings in these boroughs. As a whole, new york city has experienced a precipitous increase in gun violence since the pandemic began, predominantly driven by a small group of offenders. The nypd will continue to support an experienced investigative analyst to work in the united states attorney's office of the edny tasked with the analysis of shooting incidents in brooklyn, queens, and staten island to build federal cases against gun offenders.