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Incorporating Research and Data Into Criminal Justice Agencies - NIJ LEADS Alumni Spotlight

March 2020
Series
Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science Program Spotlight

Sergeant Jeffery Egge of the Minneapolis Police Department, and NIJ LEADS Scholar alum, discusses his experience with leads including how the program benefited his agency and his use of date to address gun violence and the opioid epidemic and the city's sentinel events review of overdose fatalities. Sergeant Egge also discusses his current work looking at investigative closures.

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Epidemiology of Crime Guns: Summary

Date Published
September 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Summary), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Rare Incidents Data Collection Methods to Advance Research on Mass Violence

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The Importance of Mass Violence Research 

I am David Muhlhausen, the Director of the National Institute of Justice. As...