Davenport Strategic Crime Analysis Program: Enhancing and expanding crime analysis to inform crime reduction strategies aimed at reducing gun violence in Davenport.

Strategies for Policing Innovation (SPI), Purpose Area 1: Supporting Innovation, provides resources to support projects to implement and test innovative approaches to operational challenges and violent crime reduction. SPI grant recipients will develop innovative, data-driven approaches to challenges currently confronting law enforcement agencies. Recipients must: 1) describe the innovative, data-driven approach to be implemented; 2) create an action plan to evaluate the effectiveness of the approach; 3) identify a specific violent crime problem to address; 4) develop a prevention, mitigation, or response strategy to address the problem; 5) evaluate the project; and 6) assess and report the results to BJA for public availability. The evaluation design must include outcome measures capable of informing a credible assessment of the effectiveness of the strategies.

With these grant funds, the applicant will use the funding to hire two full time crime analysts to enhance and expand the analytical capabilities of the department by implementing and testing innovative crime reduction data collection and analysis approaches using a recently purchased NIBIN system.

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