Property/Violent Crimes/Community Prevention Strategies

Need assistance in developing a manual for Kentucky Prosecutors to assist in making appropriate bail recommendations based risks to public safety as opposed to defendant's ability to post a monetary bond. Key elements include screening by an experienced prosecutor, a recommendation based upon risk factors, and an opportunity to make alternative to incarceration recommendations suchas treatment, drug or mental health courts, or deferred prosecution.

The Technical and Training Assistance requested is to fund speakers/facilitators for the law enforcement and community tracks during the 2015 Police And Community Engagement (P.A.C.E.) Conference. This conference will be held in Aiken South Carolina and open to all law enforcement and community members and organizations in our region. The conference focus is De-escalation and Building Community Partnerships.

I am writing in regards to training for David Kennedy's Drug Market Intervention training for my city. I am a Councilmember for the city of Anniston (David E. Reddick) and I would like to bring the District Attorney for Calhoun County (Brian McVaigh) a community organizer (Vince Williams) and my new drug taskforce head (Allen George). I am interested in this small group attending training so that it can be implemented in the City of Anniston

California voters enacted Proposition 47 in November of 2014, reducing the classification of various property and drug offenses that were previously prosecuted as felony offenses to misdemeanor offenses.

The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office prosecutes misdemeanor offenses in the City of Los Angeles, and as we anticipated, experienced a significant increase in the number of drug offenses prosecuted by our office, increasing 224% following the passage of Prop 47.

I would like my staff of 50 Instructors trained in the Blue Courage program.

The Notre Dame College PD requests one Blue Courage training for approximately 30 participants.

The Fairfax County Police Department, requests T3 training. T3 is the only police training program that simultaneously addresses the perceptual, cognitive, and behavioral dimensions of social interaction. It integrates the latest scientific research on managing social encounters with validated training techniques. The training will last for a half day (four hours) and not have more than 40 participants.

The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office is seeking technical assistance in creating and designing an investigative database for the Wayne County Sexual Assault Kit Task Force (WCSAKTF). The grant would provide for an expert in data analysis and database management to aid in the merging of several existing databases created and maintained by law enforcement, prosecutors, and lab personnel.

The University of Delaware Police Department (UDPD) embraces the mission of providing quality law enforcement education to our regional law enforcement partners in the Middle-Atlantic region. This Training and Technical Assistance request continues UDPD Chief Patrick Ogden's history of identifying excellent contemporary law enforcement training by bringing Blue Courage training to our campus for state, municipal and local law enforcement officers.

Over the last few years, Gary Police Department (GPD) has started to use data more and we now have a full time crime analyst. Currently our efforts have focused on data that shows historical trends, comparisons between timeframes, and documents previous months efforts. We would like to start using data more proactively, in real time, to make decisions about deployment and to help identify strategies and tactics that are customized to high-crime neighborhoods.