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Awards: Listing of Funded Projects

Every year, NIJ awards grants and cooperative agreements for research, development, evaluation, testing and training and technical assistance projects across the spectrum of criminal justice.
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Subtopic: Use of force

Number of Awards: 55
Total Amount Awarded: $24,337,383

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Sort descending Status
2010 Negotiated Justice: The Legal, Administrative and Policy Implications of "Pattern or Practice" Police Misconduct Reform NIJ FY 10 ORE Ph.D.Graduate Research Fellowship Program American University DC 2010-IJ-CX-0001 $25,000 Closed
2006 One year continuation of "Injuries Produced by Law Enforcement Use of Less Lethal Weapons" (2004-IJ-CX-K047) to Ensure Enrollment of Target Goals and to Allow Additional Enrollment of Subjects. NIJ FY06 Less-Lethal Technology Research and Development Solicitation: Invited Full Applications Wake Forest University Health Sciences NC 2004-IJ-CX-K047 $29,059 Closed
2017 Officers' and Community Members' Evaluations of Police-Civilian Interactions NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Foundation CUNY o/b/o John Jay College NY 2017-IJ-CX-0013 $31,980 Closed
2013 Assessing the Validity and Reliability of National Data on Citizen Complaints about Police Use of Force NIJ FY 13 Data Resources Program: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data Seattle University WA 2013-R2-CX-0035 $36,167 Closed
2020 Advances in Spatial Statistical Methodology for Urban Crime Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020 PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE PA 2020-R2-CX-0033 $60,065 Closed
2005 An Analysis of Human Injuries and TASER Deployment: a Regional Study to determine the Effect of Less-Lethal Weapons in the De-escalations of Force Less Than Lethal Full Applications Florida Gulf Coast University FL 2005-IJ-CX-K050 $99,856 Closed
2002 Non-Lethal Technologies Inc. Road SentryTM Improvement Paul Coverdell National Forensic Sciences Improvement Act Grant - FY2002 Non-Lethal Technologies, Inc. IL 2002-LT-BX-K009 $100,000 Closed
2004 Injuries Produced by Law Enforcement Use of Less-Lethal Weapons: A Prospective Multicenter Trial FY 2004 Less-Lethal Technologies Solicitation Wake Forest University Health Sciences NC 2004-IJ-CX-K047 $104,071 Closed
2004 The Collection and Dissemination of LTL Databases to the Law Enforcement Community FY 2004 Less-Lethal Technologies Solicitation The Pennsylvania State University PA 2004-IJ-CX-K039 $113,481 Closed
2009 Officer and Suspect Injuries Associated with Police Use of Force NIJ FY 09 Recovery Act: Law Enforcement Technology Research and Development Wake Forest University Health Sciences NC 2009-SQ-B9-K016 $168,448 Closed
2004 Eureka Aerospace is proposing to design and build a prototype high-power radiofrequency (RF) modular source unit which constitutes an integral part of a high-power electromagnetic system (HPEMS) that FY 2004 Less-Lethal Technologies Solicitation Eureka Aerospace CA 2004-IJ-CX-K044 $188,444 Closed
1999 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards International Association of Chiefs of Police VA 1999-LT-VX-K004 $199,998 Closed
2008 Multi-jurisdictional task force comprised of all Ventura County law enforcement agencies to coordinate and conduct review of a minimum of 50 cold violent crime and homicide cases for presence of DNA NIJ FY 08 Solving Cold Cases with DNA County of Ventura CA 2008-DN-BX-K311 $212,133 Closed
2009 Advancing Criminal Justice Policy, Practice and Technology - Evaluation of Low-Cost Aviation Options for Law Enforcement NIJ FY 09 Advancing Criminal Justice Policy, Practice, and Technology Sheriffs Association of Texas TX 2009-IJ-CX-K017 $235,146 Closed
2011 Less Lethal Interdisciplinary Panel NIJ FY 11 Office of Science and Technology Continuations Wayne State University MI 2011-IJ-CX-K007 $249,982 Closed
2022 Police Use of Force Assessment, Evaluation and Analysis NIJ FY 2022 Invited to Apply — Byrne Discretionary Community Project Funding/Byrne Discretionary Grants Program PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY GOVERNMENT VA 15PNIJ-22-GK-00245-BRND $250,000 Open
2002 Analysis of Airport Security Measures and the Role of Less-Than-Lethal Weapons Paul Coverdell National Forensic Sciences Improvement Act Grant - FY2002 National Security Research, Inc. DC 2002-IJ-CX-K013 $250,107 Closed
2007 Physiological Model of Excited Delirium NIJ FY 07 Less-Lethal Technologies: Invited Full Proposals Wayne State University MI 2007-IJ-CX-K003 $250,198 Closed
2006 Electronic Control Weapons Unexpected In-Custody Death Study NIJ/Office of Science and Technology Continuations International Association of Chiefs of Police VA 2006-IJ-CX-K046 $257,638 Closed
2009 Injuries Produced by Law Enforcement Use of Less Lethal Weapons NIJ FY 09 Office of Science and Technology Continuations Wake Forest University Health Sciences NC 2009-MU-BX-K248 $274,950 Closed
2008 Developing a Common Metric for Evaluating Police Performance in Deadly Force Situations NIJ FY 08 ORE Policing and Public Safety Interventions Washington State University Pullman WA 2008-IJ-CX-0015 $282,551 Closed
2019 The Impact of Constitutional Carry Legislation on Urban Violence, Arrests, and Police-Citizen Encounters Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearm Violence, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI OH 2019-R2-CX-0065 $323,263 Past Project Period End Date
2012 Promoting Officer Integrity Through Early Engagements and Procedural Justice NIJ FY 12 Research on Policing Poice Foundation DC 2012-IJ-CX-0009 $341,469 Closed
2004 A Compact and Rugged Pulsed Laser Technology Platform for Counter-Personnel LLWs FY 2004 Less-Lethal Technologies Solicitation Sterling Photonics Inc NM 2004-IJ-CX-K043 $358,259 Closed
2005 Assessing Police Use of Force Policy and Outcomes Assessing the Outcomes of the Use of Force Michigan State University MI 2005-IJ-CX-0055 $376,255 Closed