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BCJI
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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.
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Since 2012, 74 sites have received a combined $54.7 million in grants under the CBCR Program and have yielded the following results:
Significant reduction in crime New homes and businesses in neighborhoods previously deemed unsafe More collaboration between police and residents to solve problems More effective and efficient deployment of public resources
CBCR has provided resources to convene a diverse collection of local partners including law enforcement, prosecutors, researchers, service providers, residents and community developers to examine contributing factors to crime trends and solutions to reduce those elements to improve public safety in distressed communities.
Since 2012, 74 sites have received a combined $54.7 million in grants under the CBCR Program and have yielded the following results: -Significant reduction in crime; -New homes and businesses in neighborhoods previously deemed unsafe; -More collaboration between police and residents to solve problems; and, -More effective and efficient deployment of public resources.
CBCR has provided resources to convene a diverse collection of local partners including law enforcement, prosecutors, researchers, service providers, residents and community developers to examine contributing factors to crime trends and solutions to reduce those elements to improve public safety in distressed communities.
Please see CBCR website at www.lisc.org/cbcr for additional information on program accomplishments.
Since 2012, this program has provided funding to 83 of the most distressed neighborhoods across the country, including urban, rural, and tribal communities. Some accomplishments across the four core objectives include:
Crime and Offending: • Part I crimes in Philadelphia’s target area dropped from an average of 61 per year to 46 per year between 2012 and 2015. Additionally, one year after revitalization work was completed at one hotspot—the intersection of 34th and Haverford—crime decreased 75 percent (from 168 incidents every 6 months to 40) and there were no shootings.
• Crime in the immediate area targeted by the Flint, Michigan, CBCR effort dropped 20 percent from 2015 to 2016. This includes drug-related loitering and assaults and shootings. In one hotspot, violent crime declined 16 percent and property crime declined 14 percent. In a second hotspot along the same commercial corridor, violent crime declined 14 percent and property crime declined 51 percent.
Economic Investment and Revitalization:
• The Sheriff’s Office of Alameda County, California, is leading revitalization efforts to create more economic opportunities along a vacant commercial corridor that has been a hotspot for criminal activity for at least a decade by launching “Eden Night Live.” One of the main goals of Eden Night Live is to help small businesses increase their local consumer base and create opportunities for entrepreneurs, while creating a place where people can feel connected to one another.
Social Cohesion and Community-Police Collaboration: • In Youngstown, Ohio, more than 500 volunteers, organized through 25 project partners, volunteered to board up and clean a significant number of vacant properties in the CBCR target area. Volunteers cleaned up and secured 71 vacant properties and removed 206 tires, 800 cubic yards of illegally dumped debris, and 467 bags of trash. The City of Youngstown also demolished seven abandoned, severely blighted houses as part of the project.
Cost effectiveness and Sustainability: • The Syracuse, New York, CBCR Program successfully created and implemented a Peacemaking Center, training 36 community members to provide free community-based conflict resolution to individuals referred by justice system stakeholders. The program’s success helped garner three additional funding sources to support and expand the program and staffing, which moved it from a neighborhood-based to a countywide program.
More highlights of these sites’ work and results may be reviewed here: http://www.lisc.org/our-initiatives/safe-neighborhoods/cbcr/cbcr-results/
Please visit https://www.lisc.org/our-initiatives/safety-justice/cbcr/where-it-happening/
BJA awarded $18.8 million under its Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Program, which will fund a strategic approach to crime reduction in local jurisdictions that leverages community knowledge and expertise to build public trust with law enforcement and make neighborhoods safer.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
