Law enforcement

LEADS Scholar Spotlight - American Society of Evidence-Based Policing

October 2018

Series

Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science Program Spotlight

Joshua Young, a retired corporal of the Ventura Police Department in California and Class of 2015 Scholar of NIJ’s Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) Program, discusses the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing, which encourages the use of data and research to inform policing. He also talks about a randomized control trial he conducted on body-worn cameras and the support he has received from the LEADS program.

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Using Artificial Intelligence to Address Criminal Justice Needs

The Next Revision of the NIJ Performance Standard for Ballistic Resistance of Body Armor, NIJ Standard 0101.07: Changes to Test Methods and Test Threats

Building Drug Intelligence Networks to Combat the Opioid Crisis in Rural Communities: A Collaborative Intelligence-led Policing Strategy

2018-AR-BX-0004

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$725,018

BetaHub Support for Practitioner-Led Randomized Controlled Trials and Related Research in Correctional Facilities and Law Enforcement Agencies

2018-75-CX-K008

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$499,715

A place-based approach to address youth-police officer interactions in crime hotspots: A Randomized Controlled Trial

2018-JX-FX-0093

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2018

$999,396

OSTEOID, A New Forensic Tool: Developing a Practical Online Resource for Species Identification of Skeletal Remains

2018-DU-BX-0229

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$185,453

Spatial Video Geonarratives and Health: Case Studies in Post Disaster Recovery, Crime, Mosquito Control and Tuberculosis in the Homeless

Date Published

January 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Evaluation of Terrestrial and Aerial Remote Sensing with Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) for Forensic Crime-Scene Reconstruction

2018-R2-CX-0031

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$91,416

Legal Responses to Human Trafficking:Evaluability Assessments and Future Evaluation Designs

2018-VT-BX-0002

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$428,073

Using Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling in Assessing the Impact of Police Signaling on Investigative and Prosecutorial Outcomes in Sexual Assault Reports

2018-VA-CX-0002

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$714,199

Large-Scale Deep Point Process Models for Crime Forecasting

2018-R2-CX-0013

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$149,999

Stable Isotope Analysis as a Geospatial Tool for Identification: Intra-Individual Isotopic Variability

2018-DU-BX-0217

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2018

$570,624

The Impact of Individualized Focused Deterrence on Criminal and Pro-Social Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Study of the St. Louis Police Partnership

2018-75-CX-0001

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$635,300

Through the E-Cigarette Looking Glass: The Impact of Vaping Ethanol on DUI Investigations

2018-75-CX-0036

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$517,961

Detection and Identification of Psychoactive Material Based On SPME-facilitated DART-MS-derived Headspace Chemical Signatures and Chemometrics

2018-R2-CX-0012

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$100,000

Longitudinal Effects of Prolonged Opioid Use on Cortical Bone Remodeling in a Rabbit Model

2018-DU-BX-0188

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$323,392

Applying Artificial Intelligence to Person-Based Policing Practices

2018-75-CX-0002

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$563,411

Coping with Close Non-Matches in Latent Print Comparison (re-)Training

2018-DU-BX-0227

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$616,407

Decontamination of Crime Scene Equipment: Evaluating Current Methods and Determining Best Practices

2018-DU-BX-0226

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$171,041

Hate Crime Investigations and Offender Profiles: A National Survey of U.S. Law Enforcement Agencies

2018-MU-MU-0029

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$840,649

A National Evaluation of Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Training

2018-MC-FX-K007

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$750,000

Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

2016-MU-BX-K007

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2018

$5,000,000

Novel Quantitation Workflow for Improved Drug Surveillance

2018-75-CX-0006

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$624,989

Research-Based Practice Guide to Address Gang Violence

2018-PB-FX-K002

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$749,956