Deadline: 27-Jul-22
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications to fund the development and testing of a new or innovative approach to improving community safety and trust that is an alternative to traditional enforcement mechanisms for neighborhoods experiencing high rates of less serious and low-level criminal offenses.
Goal: To improve community safety by identifying a promising new or innovative community safety strategy that will reduce and prevent crime and improve community residents’ perceptions of procedural fairness by funding its development, implementation, and testing in one or more sites.
Objectives
- Create or identify and test an effective community-based safety model to serve as an alternative to traditional enforcement processes for addressing lower-level types of crime that will improve community safety and result in increased trust and legitimacy between law enforcement and residents by implementing a project to:
- Identify a locality, or one or more economically disadvantaged neighborhoods within a locality, where crime is persistent and concentrated, to serve as an implementation site(s) for the proposed community engagement strategy.
- Identify organizations, local government agencies, and other entities within the site(s) that will serve as partners and subawardees.
- Utilize the proposed community engagement strategy to empower residents to design and refine a community-based safety model.
- Provide technical assistance and subawards to support the implementation of the community safety model.
- Work with a research partner to assess needs, document implementation, and develop tools to support further implementation in the field. No more than 20 percent of the total budget may be used to support research or evaluation services.
- Combat, address, or otherwise respond to precipitous or extraordinary increases in crime, or in a type or types of crime.
- Increase investment in and build capacity of local and community resources and institutions in the project site(s) that have the ability to reduce and prevent crime and enhance community engagement in these partnerships.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $3,000,000.00
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
Eligibility Criteria
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Others
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- To advance Executive Order 13929 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 eligible for FY 2022 DOJ discretionary grant funding.
- To become certified, the law enforcement agency must meet two mandatory conditions:
- the agency use-of-force policies adhere to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and
- the agency use-of-force policies prohibit chokeholds except in situations where use of deadly force is allowed by law.
- The certification requirement also applies to law enforcement agencies receiving DOJ discretionary grant funding through a subaward.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=340811