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The PRC team will conduct research within prosecutors' offices to gain a better understanding in how prosecutors are making decisions relative to plea bargaining and being trained on implicit bias. The PRC team will begin targeted interviews with the first office starting in July 2024. The targeted interviews will continue through 2025

The PRC team will conduct research/collect data within prosecutors' offices to gain a better understanding of how prosecutors are making decisions relative to plea bargaining and being trained on implicit bias. The first stage of this deliverable is to identify offices to partcipate

Our Advisory Board has been split into three subcommittee groups on each of the three "key concept" areas explored in literature review. We will be meeting with each of the subcommittee group members to pull from their experience and determine where we can develop resources, best practices and recommendations, and where we can begin to fill research gaps

Virtual Course: During this reporting period progress was made on the development of the virtual Fundamentals of Task Force Operations training. Once BJA approved, each of the module storyboards were converted into videos and underwent several review phases.

During this reporting period, there were no peer-to-peer technical assistance requests received or recommended by BJA. For cost savings, virtual peer exchanges may also be considered as online virtual platforms have been integrated into IIR’s core operations.

The CenTF website includes task force-related TTA offerings, both on-site and online, and a wealth of field-related resources. The CenTF website continues to be maintained and monitored by the IIR team.

During the reporting period, 56 inquiries were submitted and responded to via the CenTF website, 345 new users registered for the training, and 1,282 certificates of completion were earned across four online courses:

IIR ensures that there is, within the Leadership lesson of the Fundamentals of Task Force Operations Training curriculum, instruction on the importance of data collection, as well as the value of performance measures to determine and demonstrate the effectives of the task force in addressing and reducing crime. Instruction further includes guidance on setting performance objectives, identifying key performance indicators, and an explanation of how performance measurement is used to develop task force strategies, goals, and objectives.

Two quarterly reports, for periods October 1 to December 31, 2023, and January 1 to March 31, 2024, were provided to BJA during the reporting period and included details regarding the development of the virtual course and the podcast series. The report also detailed the number of certificates of completion earned for the four online training offerings.

At BJA’s direction, in lieu of in-person courses, work was underway this reporting period on the new virtual course—the Fundamentals of Task Force Operations training.

Refer to Objective 2, Deliverable 7, for details on activity completed for the five-part podcast series—Proactive Policing in Today’s Society for Multijurisdictional and Specialty Enforcement Units.