During this webinar, Mike Roosa and Carmen Facciolo, Policy Advisors from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), will review the Body-Worn Camera (BWC) Pilot Implementation Program (PIP) Solicitation. The BJA BWC Team will review all categories of the solicitation including: eligibility, funding metrics, rules, matching requirements and appropriate use of funds.
While the collection of DNA evidence from property crimes by law enforcement may be rare in most of the United States, rarer still is the processing of this evidence by a forensic DNA laboratory. Laboratory backlogs and a general lack of funding and resources all play in to the myriad of reasons why property crime analysis is not a top priority for all DNA laboratories.
According to one recent study, as many as one in five female college students will be sexually assaulted in the course of her undergraduate career. According to another statistic, for every 1,000 women attending a university, there are 35 incidents of rape each academic year. Perhaps more troublingly, less than 5% of completed or attempted rapes against college women are reported to law enforcement, and reported assailants receive little or no punishment from their schools’ judicial sytems.