The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks applications for funding of the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Methodological Research on Measuring Community- and Officer-Initiated Law Enforcement Activity.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Statistics
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 07/18/2022
Grant Size: $200,000
Grant Duration: 18 months
Details:
The goal of this project is to complete research and development (R&D) required to construct a nationally representative, analyzable set of elements captured in CAD systems, for the purpose of better understanding police-public events. Ultimately, BJS seeks to obtain data necessary to evaluate the following:
- Number of police-public events occurring nationally.
- Number, frequency, proportion, nature, and context of—
- resident-initiated CFS for criminal and noncriminal incidents
- officer-initiated responses to criminal and noncriminal incidents.
- Jurisdictional variation in the type and nature of—
- resident-initiated criminal and noncriminal CFS
- officer-initiated responses to criminal and noncriminal events.
- Number, frequency, proportion, and disposition of—
- resident-initiated CFS that become criminal events
- officer-initiated contacts that become criminal events.
Data on community- and officer-initiated law enforcement (LE) activity provides a wealth of largely untapped opportunities for researchers and practitioners to evaluate and develop policies and practices. Systematic data collection about police activity would—
- facilitate better understanding of LE workload, to determine the nature and circumstances of LE assistance or intervention and what happens as a result of the LE activity.
- enable LE agencies and policymakers to make evidence-informed decisions about how to use LE resources,
- evaluate police responses, improve officer safety, improve stakeholder service, and address other community issues, such as drug abuse and mental illness.
- support development of national best practices for how computer-aided dispatch (CAD) data are collected and stored, to facilitate a long-term, sustainable measure of police-public events.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $500,000
- Award Ceiling: $500,000
- Award Floor: $250,000
- Period of Performance: 18 months
Eligibility Criteria
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Small businesses
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
