The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services and the U.S. Department of Justice collaborated with several law enforcement member organizations, including the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and formed the Collaborative Reform Initiative for Technical Assistance Center (CRI-TAC).  The CRI-TAC program provides critical and tailored technical assistance resources to state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies on a wide variety of topics.  Technical assistance encompasses a host of methods including training, peer-to-peer consultation, analysis, coaching, and strategic planning. The CRI-TAC features a “by the field, for the field” approach while delivering individualized technical assistance using leading experts in a range of public safety, crime reduction, and community policing topics.

The National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) provides a nationwide support system for law enforcement and regulatory agencies tasked with the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of economic and high-tech crime.

With assistance from the Indiana State Police, NW3C has developed a Seizure of Virtual and Crypto Currencies Model Policy.  The model policy, which outlines the recommended steps to seize cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, was reviewed by the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s Computer Crime and Digital Evidence Committee and the Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies’ Cybercrime and Technology and Digital Evidence Committees.  In order to access the resource, you must be a criminal justice practitioner with an NW3C account.

The Justice Information Sharing website functions as the premiere resource for the support of justice and public safety information sharing and technology.  Supported by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, this site addresses the needs of law enforcement executives, policymakers, project managers, and technologists to provide a full understanding and awareness of how far information sharing has come at a national level.  The site contains a variety of information related to information sharing and technology, including the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative, policy and implementation, and national initiatives.  This site also provides an archive of all the Five in 5 publications.

Research supported by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is helping to lead the way in applying artificial intelligence (AI) to address criminal justice needs, such as identifying individuals and their actions in videos relating to criminal activity or public safety, DNA analysis, gunshot detection, and crime forecasting.

AI is being researched as a public safety resource in numerous ways. One particular AI application—facial recognition—can be found everywhere in both the public and the private sectors.  The AI research that NIJ supports falls primarily into four areas: public safety video and image analysis, DNA analysis, gunshot detection, and crime forecasting.

People living with mental illnesses and developmental disabilities are disproportionately represented in contacts with the police, and these interactions can lead to stress and dangerous conditions for everyone involved. Law enforcement agencies can now request the tools they need to serve safely and effectively.

~Vera Institute of Justice

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and its partners in the justice and mental health fields have developed programs and resources to assist jurisdictions in interacting with and managing justice-involved people with mental illness and intellectual and developmental disabilities, from the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program and the National Center on Criminal Justice and Disability® to the Stepping Up Initiative and the Police-Mental Health Collaboration Toolkit.

BJA’s latest partnership with the Vera Institute of Justice is Serving Safely: The National Initiative to Enhance Policing for Persons with Mental Illnesses and Developmental Disabilities.  Serving Safely offers a one-stop center for police departments and other criminal justice agencies to learn how to design responses that enhance outcomes of interactions through collaboration with mental health service providers, families, and peers.