Project Safe Neighborhoods Grants develop, implement, and support anti-gang prevention and violent crime enforcement strategies in Maryland through dedicated partnerships forming a PSN task force.
Donor Name: Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy
State: Maryland
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/06/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Funds are intended to help create and foster safer neighborhoods through a sustained reduction in violent crime, including, but not limited to, addressing criminal gangs and the felonious possession and use of firearms.
Project Safe Neighborhoods Core Elements
- Community Engagement/Partnerships- All participants will work toward building effective partnerships between law enforcement and community stakeholders as public safety is a shared responsibility.
- Prevention and Intervention- The Project Safe Neighborhoods program requires a comprehensive approach to violent crime that also focuses on prevention, intervention, and deterrence efforts.
- Focused and Strategic Enforcement- Project Safe Neighborhoods requires each applicant to develop data-driven strategies to focus enforcement efforts in locations with significant violent crime issues. Identifying and taking action against the criminal offenders driving the violence is crucial for reducing crime and fear in the community. Neighborhood-based enforcement efforts must focus on three areas (1) identify the location within the district in greatest need of comprehensive violent crime reduction efforts; (2) identify the criminal offenders who are driving the violence in those areas; and (3) ensure those violent offenders are prosecuted in the jurisdiction that can provide the most certain and appropriate sanction.
- Accountability- To be effective, the Project Safe Neighborhood program must measure and analyze the results based on the reduction of gun and gang activity related to violent crime. Several other analytics such as the number of investigations, interventions, and prosecutions will also identify the effectiveness of Project Safe Neighborhoods.
Goals
- Create and implement sustainable collaborations and comprehensive violent crime reduction strategies with federal, state, and local law enforcement officials, prosecutors, community-based partners, and other stakeholders to address the most pressing violent crime programs in a targeted community.
- Foster community trust in, and increase legitimacy of, federal, state, and local law enforcement entities through the development of violent crime reduction strategies, public education approaches, and transparent accountability mechanisms.
- Effectively use intelligence and data to identify violent crime drivers and individuals at risk of violence victimization or perpetration to intervene, prevent, and improve outcomes.
Objectives
- Implement one or more effective strategies to prevent, respond to, and reduce violent crime.
- Develop and support a jurisdictional PSN Team’s specific activities and resource requirements by implementing grant funded strategies in collaboration with all project partners and stakeholders.
Funding Information
- The Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy anticipates the availability of $280,647 for the SFY 2025 Project Safe Neighborhoods Maryland (PSNM) grant program.
- The minimum amount an applicant should request for this comprehensive project is $50,000, and the maximum amount is $280,647.
Project Period
October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
The following Maryland entities are eligible to submit no more than one application under the SFY 2025 Project Safe Neighborhoods Maryland (PSNM) Grant Program:
- Local and municipal governmental entities
- Local and municipal law enforcement
- State law enforcement
- State’s attorney’s offices
For more information, visit GOCPP.
