Personnel

On October 24, 2014, Dr. Chip Coldren presented on new developments in SPI at the 2014 Major Cities Chiefs Meeting in Orlando, FL.

Review of Brooklyn Park and New York (draft) SPI Action Plans from July-December 2014. Review of Toledo, Henderson, Portland, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Lowell from January-June 2015. Review of Miami Beach from July-December 2015. Review of Milwaukee, Chicago, Phoenix, and Pinellas from January-June 2016. Review of Shoreline, Miami Beach, and Ronaoke from July-September 2016.

Review of Pullman, San Diego, Indio, and Reno Final SPI Reports July-December 2014. Review of Reno, Port St. Lucie, Glendale, Pharr, Frisco, Phoenix, and Kansas City Final SPI Reports January-June 2015. Review of Columbia, East Palo Alto, New Haven, and York SPI Final Reports July-December 2015. Review of Cambridge, Michigan State, and Rochester from January-June 2016. Memos developed for BJA with recommendation to accept/request report and with suggested report improvements.

Dr. Chip Coldren conducted an informal site visit to Henderson SPI to discuss their new grant award and plans for project implementation.

Dr. Chip Coldren and JSS (Dr. Craig Uchida, and Ms. Shellie Solomon) are conducting TTA around collective efficacy for Brooklyn Park SPI related to project evaluation/analysis, collective efficacy operations, and collective efficacy training for officers and community members.

The research partner for East Palo Alto SPI requested input/assistance regarding the scope/framework of the project evaluation due to ongoing changes in leadership, which impacted project implementation and evaluation.

SPI team members James "CHIPS" Stewart and James R. "Chip" Coldren, Jr. and BJA representative Kate McNamee conducted a site visit with the Michigan State Police SPI.

CNA outreach to four new SPI sites and four supplemental sites (Henderson, Toledo, Portland, Miami, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Lowell), including the matching of practitioner and research SMEs for new sites.

CNA coordinated and participated in multiple SPI site panels/roundtables at the American Society of Criminology annual conference on research and issues regarding body worn cameras, reducing gun violence through Smart Policing, overcoming challenges to changes in SPIs, and new findings from the Smart Policing Initiative.

CNA coordinated an SPI panel on being a smart police executives with chiefs from five SPI sites and support of an SPI/DDACTS booth with Shawnee PD and IADLEST at the 2014 International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference (IACP) in Orlando, FL.