Use of Force

The Nashville, Tennessee Police Department, as part of the Nashville National Public Saftey Partnership site, requested assistance to enhance its gun violence prevention efforts. The ​Institute Intergovernmental Research (IIR) was selected to facilitate the assistance and conducted a three- day onsite visit with the agency in September 2019. IIR delivered a report in October 2019 with recommendations specific to training, technology, products/functionality, and staffing to optimize the investigation of non-fatal shootings and promote prosecutorial best practices.

On June 12, 2019, the learning community’s fourth session on "Data Collection and Analysis" was held. This session featured the National Police Foundation (NPF) who helped grantees understand the purpose and importance of data collection, determine what data should be collected, assess their current practices and capacity for data collection, understand how to present data to stakeholders, and identify barriers to data collection and ways to begin or improve data collection.

The third learning community session, "Practical Approaches to Lawful Information Sharing", was hosted by CSG Justice Center on April 10, 2019. This session focused on how information can be legally and appropriately shared among PMHC partners. The webinar featured Detective Dempsey from the Los Angeles Police Department who spoke about developing policies, procedures, and other strategies to facilitate information sharing. Time was also included for FY18 JMHCP Category 2 grantees to ask questions of each other and the expert presenter.

On March 6, 2019, the second session in the Learning Community webinar series for FY18 JMHCP Category 2 Law Enforcement grantees was held. This session focused on strategic planning processes.

The Milwaukee, Wisconsin Police Department (MPD), as part of the Milwaukee Public Safety Partnership (PSP) site, requested travel support for representatives to attend the FBI DIVRT Training. ​BJA NTTAC provided travel support to three representatives from the Milwaukee PSP site to attend the conference from September 10 -11, 2019 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The engagement was transferred to a new contract.

This is the first session in the Learning Community webinar series for FY18 JMHCP Category 2 Law Enforcement grantees.

For many police agencies, body-worn cameras (BWCs) have become an essential tool for enhancing transparency and accountability, as well as a key source of evidence to support criminal investigations and prosecutions. However, very little has been done until now to harness the enormous potential of BWCs as a source of training and evaluation data to improve officer safety and decision-making.

Buerau of Justice Assistance requested scholarship support for PSP site members to attend the NCJA 2019 CJ Forum. This event was postponed until BJA NTTAC Option Year 3.

IACP will develop and conduct a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis to identify TTA needs for each task force. The SWOT analysis will be conducted using electronic surveying and phone interviews. Based on the outcome of the assessments, in consultation with BJA, IACP will develop/enhance/refine training for delivery to the ECM task forces.

IACP will develop and conduct a strengths weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) (leadership, collaboration, and TTA needs assessment) analysis to identify TTA needs for each task force. The needs assessment included an electronic survey, phone interview, and review of PMT data for the task force. A summary report will be created to highlight findings.