Police Prosecution Partnership Initiative

The Police-Prosecution Partnership Initiative (PPPI) seeks to establish new and/or expand existing partnerships between police and prosecutors to implement evidence-based and innovative strategies that combat, address, or otherwise respond to precipitous or extraordinary increases in crime, or in a type or types of crime, while supporting research partnerships to assess the effectiveness of these efforts. At a minimum, jurisdictions must demonstrate an increase in crime (understood to be “violent crime”) at “precipitous” or “extraordinary” levels. Through its programmatic efforts under the Smart Policing and Smart Prosecution Initiatives, BJA provides resources, training and technical assistance to police and prosecution agencies to improve their capacity to identify crime problems and develop solutions that foster reliance on, and effective use of, evidence-based practices, data, and technology. A key element of success in these initiatives is the agencies’ willingness to use a variety of data resources to inform their approaches, and to form partnerships with researchers to determine “what works” in terms of police and prosecutor efforts to improve their response to crime in their communities and to reduce violence. CA/NCF