Project Grant SINLEC12GR078

This Cooperative Agreement award of $500,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program will be used by the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Training, Inc. (IADLEST) to modernize the Code of Police Ethics and establish a national law enforcement ethics model standard. The project aims to promote equity, professionalism, and community trust in policing by convening subject matter experts to collaboratively update the...

This three-year, $714,600 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program aims to advance understanding of state formation in fragile post-conflict settings. The grantee, the National Bureau of Economic Research, will collaborate with local government and a non-governmental organization to experimentally evaluate a legal capacity building program implemented in a target city. The program has two treatment arms - a "punitive" arm in...

This $2,375,000 Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (CFDA 16.710 - Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants), will enable the Lakewood Township local government to enhance its community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. The award will support the hiring and/or rehiring of additional career law enforcement officers, as well as initiatives to increase community engagement, implement...

This $180,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Justice (CFDA 16.560 - National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants) to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) aims to implement and evaluate an intergroup intervention (the VOICES model) to improve police-community relationships. The project will investigate whether the VOICES intervention, which facilitates dialogue between police and community members, can reduce negative...

The City and County of San Francisco Police Department received a $125,000 project grant award from the Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions Community Oriented Policing Program on September 1, 2021 to complete the San Francisco, CA Community Trust and Legitimacy Project by August 31, 2022. This funding supports the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program, which provides assistance to state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies to implement community...

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...

The National Policing Institute will use $110,000 in FY24 funding from the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) to supplement their existing Supporting Law Enforcement Agency Accreditation project. The funding will be used to set up and maintain an online Community of Practice (CoP) that will facilitate conversations, information sharing, and support for law...

The Weber County Community Trust and Legitimacy Project received a $125,000 project grant award from the Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions Community Oriented Policing Program. The grant falls under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program, which provides funding to law enforcement agencies to implement community policing strategies and develop partnerships between law enforcement and the communities they serve to collaboratively address public safety...

Under a Cooperative Agreement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office, the National Policing Institute (NPI) and the Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR) are developing, implementing, and piloting a standards-based approval and tracking process for law enforcement de-escalation training programs. This project, funded at $2,000,000 and commencing on December 1, 2024, supports the ongoing maintenance, administration, and revision of this...

This $250,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (CFDA 16.710 - Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants) to the City of San Luis Obispo, CA supports the hiring and/or rehiring of additional career law enforcement officers. The goal is to increase the city's community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts through planned community partnerships, implementation of projects to analyze and assess...