Deadline: 06-Jul-21
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications for funding to support innovative and evidence-based policing practices, more effective information sharing, and multiagency collaboration under the Smart Policing Initiative (SPI, formerly Strategies for Policing Innovation) Program.
The Smart Policing Initiative (SPI, formerly Strategies for Policing Innovation) provides funding to enable police agencies to effectively use evidence-based practices, data, and technology. Recipients of funding under the FY 2021 SPI Program will establish police-researcher partnerships; test promising crime prevention, response, and reduction practices; improve police accountability and build their capacity to analyze and use crime intelligence and data; implement and test justice information-sharing technology; and evaluate their effectiveness.
Goals
- Advance the state of policing practice, accountability, and science.
- Foster effective and consistent collaborations to increase public safety.
- Enable the policing field to use technology, intelligence, and data in innovative ways.
Objectives
- Test, establish, and/or expand specific and innovative new ideas, technology, and/or evidence-based programming in each SPIfunded police agency.
- Establish sustainable practitioner-researcher partnerships between SPI-funded agencies and criminal justice program evaluation experts to increase the agencies’ data analytic capacity.
Categories
- Category 1 Responding to crime through applied technologies, crime analysis, and/or improved information sharing: Applications are solicited from eligible entities to implement and test applied information-sharing technology designed to respond to crime issues and improve data usage and exchange within and among criminal justice agencies, public agency sectors (criminal justice, health, social services), and/or between two or more jurisdictions. Applicants should define their unique challenges and the associated impact on local communities, and provide a comprehensive plan for using applied information-sharing technology to reduce or mitigate the selected crime problem within a constitutionally sound implementation framework. Specifically, applicants must:
- Describe the information sharing, crime analysis, or technology approach/solution to be implemented.
- Enlist a qualified research partner to evaluate the effectiveness of the approach or solution.
- Identify a specific policing issue to address.
- Develop a prevention/mitigation/response strategy to address the problem using the analytical or technological approach/solution.
- Evaluate the initiative.
- Assess and report the results to BJA, who will make the results publicly available.
- Category 2 Supporting Innovation: Applications are solicited from eligible entities interested in developing innovative, data-driven approaches to challenges currently confronting law enforcement agencies. Applicants will:
- Describe the innovative, data-driven approach to be implemented.
- Enlist a qualified research partner to evaluate the effectiveness of the approach. As defined in this solicitation, the research partner can be an independent consultant or located in an academic institution, a state Statistical Analysis Center, or a research organization. The research partner should have demonstrated expertise conducting the type of work proposed.
- Identify a specific policing issue to address.
- Develop a prevention/mitigation/response strategy to address the problem.
- Evaluate the initiative.
- Assess and report the results to BJA, who will make the results publicly available.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $7,000,000.00
- Category 1: $500,000.00
- Category 2: $500,000.00
- Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/21 12:00 AM
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
Eligibility Criteria
- State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies.
- Governmental agencies other than law enforcement acting as their fiscal agent.
- Federally recognized Indian tribal governments that perform law enforcement functions.
- Tribal consortia consisting of two or more federally recognized Indian tribes (including tribal consortia operated as nonprofit organizations) acting as a fiscal agent for one or more tribal law enforcement agencies.
- All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.
- To advance Executive Order Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process to be allocated FY 2021 DOJ discretionary grant funding, as either a recipient or a subrecipient.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=333667