Assistance program
Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Program
$58.5 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants (Discretionary)
- CFDA number
- 16.817
- What it does
- Goals: The goal of the BCJI is to reduce crime and improve community safety as part of a comprehensive strategy to rebuild neighborhoods and spur revitalization. Through a broad cross-sector partnership team, including neighborhood residents, BCJI grantees target neighborhoods with persistent hot spots of violent and serious crime and employ data-driven, cross-sector strategies to reduce crime and violence and increase trust. Objectives: To achieve BCJI program goals and objectives, the fiscal agent must commit to accomplishing the following: • Identify a neighborhood with a concentration of crime hot spots which have for a period of time composed a significant proportion of crime or types of crime; • Ensure meaningful engagement of residents and other partners, including coordination in the development or implementation of a comprehensive and coordinated strategic plan; • Develop and/or implement a plan that outlines a set of strategies that offers a continuum of approaches to address crime drivers including enforcement, prevention, intervention, and revitalization strategies with support from the BCJI training and technical assistance provider; • Demonstrate commitment and a clear history of the partners, including the local law enforcement agency and a research partner or team, to support the data collection and analysis throughout the life of the grant; • Demonstrate ability to hire and support a skilled lead site coordinator that will oversee and facilitate coordination and collaboration among criminal justice and service providers (e.g., by the formation of a diverse advisory board or cross-sector partnership team to address an identified problem); • Facilitate, as appropriate, collaboration with relevant local, state, or federal initiatives located in, adjacent, or overlapping the jurisdiction that addresses issues that relate to the crime issues identified; and, • Support the planning, implementation and sustainment of the program through proactive program management tied to rigorous research and data analysis, program assessment, and leverage other funding and resources.
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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