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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: Police operations

Number of Awards: 33
Total Amount Awarded: $22,301,153

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2009 Forecasting Municipality Crime Counts within a Metropolitan Area NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2009-IJ-CX-0026 $497,981 Closed
2011 Reducing Tactical Crime by Implementating a Predictive Policing Strategy. NIJ FY 11 Predictive Policing: Phase II City of Shreveport LA 2011-IJ-CX-K015 $516,775 Closed
2010 CapWIN Mobile ' Next Generation NIJ FY 10 Information Technologies: Improved Delivery of Information to the Officer at the Scene University of Maryland MD 2010-IJ-CX-K010 $555,191 Closed
2010 Target: Tactical Automated Response using GPS Enabled Technologies NIJ FY 10 Information Technologies: Improved Delivery of Information to the Officer at the Scene Automated Regional Justice Information System CA 2010-IJ-CX-K011 $289,451 Closed
2010 Developing an iPhone Based Crime Mapping Application to Assist Law Enforcement Officers with Understanding Spatial and Temporal Crime Patterns NIJ FY 10 Information Technologies: Improved Delivery of Information to the Officer at the Scene Redlands Police Department CA 2010-DE-BX-K006 $473,161 Closed
2012 Evaluating a Researcher-Practitioner Partnership and Field Experiment NIJ FY 12 Building and Enhancing Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships Curators of the University of Missouri on Behalf of UMSL MO 2012-IJ-CX-0042 $123,928 Closed
2011 Assessing the Effects of Hot Spots Policing Strategies on Police Legitimacy, Fear of Crime, and Willingness to Participate in Building Collective Efficacy NIJ FY 11 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University IL 2011-IJ-CX-0007 $395,481 Closed
2014 Cops on Dots Doing What? The Differential Effects of Law Enforcement-Oriented Actions in Hot Spots NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2014-IJ-CX-0007 $24,999 Closed
2013 Improving Hot-Spot Policing through Behavioral Interventions NIJ FY 13 Research on Offender Decision-Making The University of Chicago IL 2013-R2-CX-0006 $760,230 Closed
2012 Proposal for an Evaluability Assessment of Law Enforcement Agencies Using the Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety NIJ FY 12 Evaluability Assessment of Law Enforcement Agencies Using the Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS) Urban Institute DC 2012-IJ-CX-0037 $299,921 Closed
2012 Research on the Impact of Technology on Policing Strategies in the 21st Century NIJ FY 12 Research on the Impact of Technology on Policing Strategies in the 21st Century Research Triangle Institute NC 2012-MU-CX-0043 $999,587 Closed
2010 Fleeing Vehicle Tagging & Tracking Technology NIJ FY 10 Pursuit Management Technologies StarChase, LLC VA 2010-IJ-CX-K022 $380,397 Closed
2014 Policing predicted crime areas: An operationally-realistic randomized, controlled field experiment NIJ FY 14 Testing Geospatial Predictive Policing Strategies TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2014-R2-CX-0002 $425,512 Closed
2016 Law Enforcement Officers Safety and Wellness: A Multi-Level Study Research and Evaluation in Support of the Recommendations of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 2016-IJ-CX-0021 $970,795 Closed
2016 An Evaluation of a Social Interaction Training Program to Reduce the Use of Force and BuildLegitimacy Research and Evaluation in Support of the Recommendations of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing University of South Carolina SC 2016-IJ-CX-0018 $799,454 Closed
2016 Assessing Procedural Justice During Police-Citizen Encounters with Officer Surveys, Citizen Surveys, and Systematic Social Observations Research and Evaluation in Support of the Recommendations of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing Old Dominion University Research Foundation VA 2016-IJ-CX-0020 $392,986 Closed
2016 Police Interactions with Victims of Violence Research and Evaluation on Victims of Crime The John F. Finn Institute for Public Safety, Inc. NY 2016-VF-GX-0012 $463,277 Closed
2015 Simulation Tool to Assess Dynamic Strategies for Deployment of Police Resources NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics The University of Texas at Arlington TX 2015-R2-CX-0006 $44,094 Closed
2016 Police Officer Learning, Mentoring, and Racial Bias in Traffic Stops W.E.B. DuBois Program of Research on Race and Crime Syracuse University NY 2016-R2-CX-0041 $279,810 Closed
2016 Intersectional Subjection and Law Enforcement: Examining Perceptions Held by LGBTQ People of Color in New Orleans, LA W.E.B. DuBois Program of Research on Race and Crime RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY NJ 2016-R2-CX-0046 $150,000 Closed
2016 Do DOJ Intervention and Citizen Oversight Improve Police Accountability W.E.B. DuBois Program of Research on Race and Crime HOWARD UNIVERSITY (INC) DC 2016-R2-CX-0055 $292,979 Past Project Period End Date
2016 A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Comprehensive, Research-Based Framework for Implementing School-Based Law Enforcement Programs Comprehensive School Safety Initiative TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 2016-CK-BX-0003 $4,315,804 Closed
2016 School Climate, Student Discipline, and the Implementation of School Resources Officers Comprehensive School Safety Initiative University of Louisville Research Foundation KY 2016-CK-BX-0017 $370,307 Closed
2016 The Influence of Subjective and Objective Rural School Security on Law Enforcement Engagement Models: A Mixed Methods Study Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Board of Regents, Univ of Nebraska, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln NE 2016-CK-BX-0019 $645,952 Closed
2016 The National Police Research Platform: Phase 3 Non-solicited Applications Police Foundation DC 2016-R2-CX-0061 $1,799,002 Closed