BJA FY24 Formula Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN)

The Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Task Force for the District of Idaho has developed a strategy for use of the PSN grant to support our goal of reducing violent crime in Idaho. The District's PSN 2024 strategy is statewide to decrease gun violence through training and coordination of local and state law enforcement efforts related to gun violence, and to decrease drug-trafficking through procuring equipment for local law enforcement agencies to target hotspot highways, and to expedite lab testing.  A specific emphasis in the 2024 Idaho District Subawards will be placing additional license plate readers on Idaho highways 55 and 95.  
The first component seeks to identify means of improving state and federal communication and criminal intelligence sharing in ongoing and prospective investigations and identify methods of increasing the information accessible to patrol officers and investigators.  Funds supporting this end could increase means of communications between state officers and federal officers, as well as additional equipment or criminal intelligence resources that facilitates the same. The second component seeks to improve electronic access to information to state and local officers, as well as identifying additional training to local and state officers on federal law.  Additionally, in light of the open-carry laws enacted in Idaho, public forums to educate the community on safe gun ownership and possession could also be helped with additional funding. The third component identifies means of relaying the harms of drugs, violence, and guns to our local communities.  One identified means of accomplishing this goal includes identifying members of the community who are most vulnerable to the trappings of criminal, violent activity through outreach programs such as school trainings.