FY2023 - PSN East - State of Tennessee

Project Safe Neighborhoods FY 2023 Project Abstract

PSN requires each district to develop data-driven strategies to target enforcement efforts in locations with significant violent crime problems and against offenders who are driving the violence. District-based enforcement efforts must accomplish two goals: 1) identify the offenders who are driving the violence in those areas; and 2) prosecute those offenders to provide the most certain and appropriate sanctions.

USAO-E will identify the significant, violent offenders and target them. When law enforcement catches them, USAO-E will coordinate with our state prosecutor partners to ensure prosecution in the most appropriate venue. USAO-E will target the people committing the violence. This is our “focused deterrence.” USAO-E will not roll out massive police saturations in one area, but rather go where the data takes us such as focusing on the significant offenders and on specific gangs or groups that drive the violence. The Chattanooga Police Department (“CPD”), for example, is already engaged in crime-mapping. Furthermore, it maps the “social circles” of those involved in violence to anticipate where violence will next occur. USAO-E is aware that 30% of the project budget must go to the Gang Task Forces in the area that is represented.

Proposed Project Period: October 1, 2023 – September 30, 2026
Geography: PSN Task Force will target the people committing the violence.  USAO-E will not roll out massive police saturations in one area, but rather go where the data takes us such as focusing on the significant offenders and on specific gangs or groups that drive the violence.
Key Partners: The United States Attorney’s Office of the East District of Tennessee (USAO), Knoxville Police Department, Chattanooga Police Department, the Johnson City Police Department (“JCPD”), the Hamilton County District Attorney’s Office, the Knox County District Attorney’s Office, the 1st Judicial District Attorney’s Office, the 2nd Judicial District Attorney’s Office, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (“TBI”), Tennessee Probation and Parole, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), the DEA, the United States Marshals Service (“USMS”), Homeland Security, and the United States Probation Office and State of Tennessee, Office of Criminal Justice Programs as Fiscal Agent (OCJP)