The project safe neighborhoods (PSN) model for the united states attorney's office (usao) for the western district of tennessee will continue implementation in both shelby county and the city ofjackson

This $181,683 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance supports the Project Safe Neighborhoods (CFDA 16.609) initiative in the Western District of Tennessee. The grant will fund a collaborative effort between federal, state, and local law enforcement partners, prosecutors, and community organizations to reduce violent gun crime by focusing on crime drivers. Key activities include increasing arrests, prosecution, and sentencing for gun crimes, while also conducting community outreach to raise awareness of the law enforcement and prosecutorial approach. The Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration will serve as the fiscal agent, sub-awarding portions of the grant to local entities such as the Shelby County District Attorney's Office, Memphis Police Department, and Tennessee Department of Correction. The project period runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027.

PSN is a collaborative local and federal effort to reduce violent gun crime by focusing on crime drivers. PSN west aims to better integrate research evidence and human intelligence to enhance criminal justice efforts to address the ongoing issue of violent crime.human intelligence will be studied by comparing crime drivers to a similarly situated control group who are not subject to enhanced focus by the criminal justice system.enhanced focus for crime drivers means increasing arrests, prosecution, and adequate sentencing while simultaneously sharing locally developed crime reduction outreach campaigns to spread awareness of the law enforcement and prosecutorial approach to gun crime. The PSN west partners include shelby county district attorney's office; usao western district of tennessee; tennessee office of criminal justice programs; memphis police department; shelby county sheriff's office; tennessee department of correction division of probation and parole; themis center for justice policy, practice and research; madison county district attorney's office; madison county sheriff's office; and jackson police department.