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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 Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
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
2011 Cold Case Team Project for the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office NIJ FY 11 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Jacksonville FL 2011-DN-BX-K521 $500,000 Closed
2011 EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF THE TASER ON COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Crime Control and Prevention: Impact of Technology on Policing AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University AZ 2011-IJ-CX-0102 $408,377 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
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
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
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
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
2009 Process Evaluation of Current Internet Child Safety Activities by ICAC Task Forces Recovery Act: Evaluation of Internet Child Safety Materials Used by ICAC Task Forces in School and Community Settings University of New Hampshire NH 2009-SN-B9-0004 $487,350 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
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
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 Center for Quality Policing (CQP) NIJ FY06 ORE Continuations Rand Corporation CA 2006-DD-BX-0025 $493,614 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
2006 Evaluation of Less Lethal Technologies on Police Use of Force Outcomes NIJ FY06 ORE Evaluation of Technology Police Executive Research Forum DC 2006-IJ-CX-0028 $406,734 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
2005 A Multi-Method Evaluation of Police Use of Force Outcomes Assessing the Outcomes of the Use of Force University of South Carolina Research Foundation SC 2005-IJ-CX-0056 $647,387 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
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
2005 PSN Academy: Provision of Research-Based Training and Technical Assistance to Project Safe Neighborhoods (Year Three Supplement) NIJ/Office of Research & Evaluation Continuations Michigan State University MI 2002-GP-CX-1003 $1,199,998 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
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
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 Less-Lethal Technologies - Area Denial of Personnel: NIJ Solid State Active Denial System (ADS) Demonstration Program, National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs FY 2004 Less-Lethal Technologies Solicitation Raytheon Company CA 2004-IJ-CX-K035 $499,995 Closed
2004 Model electric current through the human from less-lethal electromuscular device FY 2004 Less-Lethal Technologies Solicitation The Board of Regents of The University of Wisconsin System. WI 2004-IJ-CX-K036 $490,591 Closed