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Communication from the City Manager and the Chief of Police with a Request to APPROVE and ACCEPT the PARTNERSHIPS TO REDUCE VIOLENT CRIME GRANT from the ILLINOIS CRIMINAL JUSTICE INFORMATION AUTHORITY.
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BACKGROUND: In April 2016, the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) identified Peoria County as one of a limited group of counties eligible to apply for funding to create partnerships to reduce violent crime by building local research and evaluation capacity, completing the Problem-Oriented Policing Scanning, Analysis, Response and Assessment (SARA) process, and implementing procedural justice and focused deterrence. The City of Peoria applied for this grant in June 2016.
In 2013, the City of Peoria began a focused deterrence strategy, called the Don't Shoot initiative, modeled after the theories of Dr. David Kennedy at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, to help efficiently and effectively deploy resources to the small percent of residents who are committing the majority of the violent gang and gun related crimes in the city. This is achieved in a number of innovative ways, often by directly interacting with offenders and communicating clear incentives for compliance and defining consequences for criminal activity. These approaches all focus on high rate offenders, who are usually gang members and/or drug dealers.
Our application proposed to use these funds to support the law enforcement focused deterrence efforts of the Don't Shoot team. The funds would pay for a research team to coordinate with community stakeholders using statistical analysis and policy expertise to identify at-risk individuals and develop evidence-based interventions. The Don't Shoot team is composed of representatives from the Peoria Police Department, the State's Attorney's Office, the Peoria County Sheriff's Office, the US Attorney's Office, Peoria County Probation, and the City of Peoria.
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