Project Safe Neighborhoods FY24 - Central Illinois

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of Illinois (CDIL) will utilize Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) funds to build on current efforts underway to further reduce firearm, narcotics, and gang crimes by focusing on the most violent individuals in the most violent neighborhoods throughout four specific jurisdictions in the CDIL's 46-county district. These jurisdictions include Northwest/Rock Island, North Central/Peoria, East Central/Urbana, and South Central/Springfield.  The CDIL will continue to address known high crime areas, organized/repeat violent offenders, and structured criminal groups (gangs), to include juveniles. Considering the District's drivers of violence, current funded projects, and required set-asides, voting members of the CDIL PSN Task Force elected 2024 funds to be distributed to support Focused and Strategic Enforcement initiatives as well as Accountability (evaluation) services. As such, FY24 funds will be allocated to the Illinois State Police to continue PSN enforcement efforts throughout the four jurisdictions specifically targeting violent crime and gang violence in regions with the highest concentrations of gang activity.  Funding will also be provided to Robert Analytics to support project research/evaluation.

The goal of this project is to leverage existing multi-disciplinary partnerships and research-based initiatives to target enforcement efforts for individuals at high risk for violent offences. Objectives include provision of enforcement services to targeted individuals and enhancing officer decision-making through evaluation. This initiative is expected to further strengthen community and law enforcement communication and reduce violent crime.