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Law enforcement

FY25 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Program

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This funding opportunity seeks to support efforts by state, local, and tribal law enforcement and prosecution agencies and their partners in conducting outreach, educating practitioners and the public, enhancing victim reporting tools, and investigating and prosecuting hate crimes.

FY25 National Initiatives: Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance

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This funding opportunity seeks to fund training and technical assistance programs for eight national initiatives to support law enforcement and criminal justice stakeholders in key criminal justice areas.

FY25 Project Safe Neighborhoods - Formula Grants Program

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This program brings together federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement officials, prosecutors, community-based partners, and other stakeholders to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in a community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them.

FY25 STOP School Violence Program

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This funding opportunity aims to support school safety by implementing solutions to enhance school climate, establish school-based behavioral threat assessment and intervention teams to identify violence risks, introduce technologies like anonymous reporting tools, and apply other evidence-based strategies to prevent violence.

FY25 Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program

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This funding opportunity seeks to support state, local, and tribal law enforcement and correctional entities to develop and implement crisis response training programs.

FY25 Field Initiated: Encouraging Innovation

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This funding opportunity seeks to support new and innovative strategies for preventing and reducing crime, improving community safety, and strengthening criminal justice system outcomes.

FY25 Virtual Reality De-escalation Site-Based Initiative

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This funding opportunity seeks to assist law enforcement agencies in adopting virtual reality technology for training purposes.

FY25 Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program

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This funding opportunity seeks to fund programs that support collaborations to improve public safety responses and outcomes for people with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.

FY25 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program

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This funding opportunity seeks to fund programs that support collaborations between law enforcement and behavioral health agencies to improve public safety responses and outcomes for people who qualify with behavioral health needs.

Recruitment, Retention, Resilience, and Rhythm: A Conversation with BJA and the Dancing Cop

January 2025
Join BJA Director Karhlton F. Moore as he interviews Officer Anthony “AJ” Johnson of the Columbus (Ohio) Police Department as he shares the impact of mentorship and positive police interactions in his life and the story behind his nickname, “The Dancing Cop,” and how he uses dance and social media to connect with the community.

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