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The Little Rock, Arkansas Police Department (PD), as part of the Little Rock Violence Reduction Network (VRN), requested technical assistance in Project Safe Neighborhoods and Drug Market Intervention. Michigan State University (MSU) School of Criminal Justice was selected to provide the assistance, and conducted a two-day site visit to administer and assessment pool and provide assistance on partnerships, collaboration, and implementation of evidence-based practices. The final report was delivered to Little Rock VRN in November 2016.

The Milwaukee Local JRI site requested assistance in refreshing their sequential intercepts model, identifying a mental health screening tool, and updating their behavioral matrix to include mental health. BJA NTTAC referred the request to the Council of State Governments.

The Chicago Police Department (PD), as part of the Chicago Violence Reduction Network (VRN) Site, is seeking an assessment of its crime strategy.

BJA seeks a comprehensive review, at both the local and national level, of the literature, academic research, and current programming (e.g., training, curricula, and models) on building resident leadership to support community capacity to reduce crime and increase community safety in distressed and high-crime neighborhoods.

The New Orleans Police Department (PD), as part of the New Orleans VRN site, is requesting an assessment of its current crime analysis capabilities and crime analysis training to support command staff, crime analysts, other law enforcement executives in the development, utilization, and enhancement of crime and public safety analysis.

Newark VRN requests CPTED training. This training was originally scheduled for January but was cancelled due to inclement weather. They would now like to reschedule this training.

The Compton VRN site requires violence reduction strategic planning assistance.

The Camden County VRN site requested technical assistance to implement the multi-disciplinary Drug Market Intervention (DMI) evidence-based model in January. This request will be a follow-up re-connect with the team provide further guidance for them moving forward.

The Detroit VRN site is requesting an assessment of its crime analysis capabilities and assistance in improving its ability to leverage current resources and improve its analytical products.

The Chicago Police Department (PD), as part of the Chicago Violence Reduction Network (VRN) Site, is requesting assistance for a comprehensive community immersion program to rebuild trust between the community and law enforcement. The Chicago PD has requested the Policing at the Speed of Trust and Leading at the Speed of Trust hybrid train-the-trainer course to develop 13 law enforcement officers and 13 community members as training facilitators. These 26 facilitators, with assistance from FranklinCovey, will then train 100 law enforcement officers and 100 community members.