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Mentoring Future Hate Crimes Investigators

Learn how a hate crimes unit uses interns to increase its capacity to address hate crimes incidents and expand community outreach by providing hate crimes training and education programs.

FY 2021 National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative

Closing Date
This program serves to improve: (1) state and local jurisdictions’ capacities to respond to violent crime and (2) the functioning of the criminal justice system through the investigation and prosecution of cases resulting from sexual assault kit evidence and the collection of lawfully owed DNA.

Episode 40: BWC Pilot Program Law Enforcement Spotlight – Wilmington, DE

July 2016
Chip Coldren, project director for the Bureau of Justice Assistances Body-Worn Camera Technical Assistance Program, interviews Wilmington Police Department's Lieutenant Cecilia Ashe to discuss their departments pilot program with body-worn cameras. The agency discusses their testing and evaluation processes.