Project Grant 1345639

This Project Grant award of $398,884 from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the NIJ Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560) will establish an action research partnership between the Wauwatosa, WI Police Department (WPD) and the Northeastern University Crime Prevention Lab. The goal of the partnership is to transition WPD towards a "police-led science" model for evidence-based policing. The project will unfold over three phases: 1) a...

This $180,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the CFDA 16.560 National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program will support a research study that examines the relationship between crime, social vulnerability, and policy outcomes using explainable machine learning techniques. The study aims to investigate socioeconomic disparities and their influence on crime prediction, as well as explore how spatial effects can...

This Project Grant award of $170,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a postdoctoral research fellowship to investigate the linkages between society and the quantification of the penal sector, with a focus on critical shifts in policing styles. The research, conducted under the sponsorship of Dr. Robert Vargas at the University of Chicago, aims to advance understanding of how communities perceive and negotiate...

This $862,804 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560) supports a mixed-methods research project at Northeastern University. The research aims to leverage automated vehicle locator (AVL) and body-worn camera (BWC) data to analyze police patrol activity and police-citizen interactions in Kansas City, Missouri over a one-year period from January 1, 2024...

The National Science Foundation awarded West Virginia University Research Corporation $126,329 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program of the Division of Social and Economic Science to support the collaborative research project "Reimagining Policing by Making Neighborhoods Safe and Strong." Over a three-year period from August 2022 through July 2025, the project will build upon the Police and Community Engagement model to study the conditions that build safe and...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $373,670 Project Grant to Morgan State University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund a mixed-methods research study from Aug 2022 to Jul 2025 to reimagine policing approaches with a goal of building safe and strong communities. The university will partner with police departments and neighborhoods in four districts to study how cultivating collaborative dialogues between law...

This Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), funds the development of a federated meta-learning framework to enhance AI-driven crime analytics across interconnected environments. The $167,500 award to Southern Illinois University Carbondale aims to create novel data labeling and rebalancing algorithms to promote fairness in AI systems, integrate efficient meta-learning techniques to reduce...

This $972,083 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice (CFDA 16.560) supports a comprehensive research plan to examine the impact of police executives on accountability mechanisms and outcomes within law enforcement. The University of Utah is the prime recipient and is partnering with Purdue University and the University of South Carolina as sub-recipients. The key products and services to be delivered include: Building a comprehensive dataset on U.S. police executives from...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Justice (CFDA 16.560) for $907,011.00, supports a comprehensive study on police internal affairs (IA) units and their practices in investigating citizen complaints against police for misconduct. The project will be conducted in two phases: Phase I involves a nationwide survey of IA units to document their policies, procedures, and variations in complaint dispositions. This data will be used to rank agency performance. Phase II will...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710), will provide $500,000 in funding to Michigan State University (MSU) from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: (1) creating allocation models to optimize workforce deployment and staffing for law...