Relative to most other states, iowa is a safe place to reside

Iowa experienced a significant increase in part I violent crimes from 2018 (263.7/100,000) through 2020 (303.5/100,000), however the annual rate returned to near the ten-year average in 2022 (286.5/100,000). While the national part I crime rate on average is about 100 crimes/100,000 population higher than iowa, the iowa trend line generally mirrors national trends for the ten-year period reviewed. The governor's office of drug control policy (ODCP) will serve as the fiscal agent for the united states attorneys office (USAO) southern district of iowa project safe neighborhoods (PSN) award.PSN funding will assist the USAO for the southern district of iowa in partnership with state and local stakeholders to identify specific violence hotspots and offenders who are contributing to the violence in the district.ODCP will work with the USAO and the district's PSN task force to develop a subrecipient selection process which addresses the broad objectives of the PSN program along with the specific priorities identified in the PSN task force strategy.