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Ballistic Resistant Body Armor and the NIJ Mark

The NIJ Compliance Testing Program’s (NIJ CTP) goal is to improve criminal justice practitioners’ confidence about the products they own and about how those products meet applicable requirements and perform as expected. To achieve this goal, the NIJ CTP must evaluate products independently and communicate the evaluation results to practitioners.

Although the NIJ CTP maintains a list of compliant products for practitioners to reference, additional...

How to Complete the NIJ Programmatic Cover Sheet

Applicant Name: Enter the name of the applicant/entity applying for NIJ funds. If you are a subcontractor/subrecipient, fill out the name of the subcontracted/subrecipient agency/lab/entity applying for funds from the prime applicant.

Point of Contact Name: Enter POC Name (this can either be the POC listed in the application, the person overseeing the work, or the person filling out the NIJ Grants Program Checklist approved...

Situational Approaches to Making Communities and Correction Institutions Safer

June 2010

NIJ Conference panelists will present the results of three studies that applied situational crime prevention (SCP) principles: (1) an evaluation of the Safe City initiative in Chula Vista, Calif., designed to combine the expertise and resources of local law enforcement, retailers and the community to increase the safety of designated retail areas; (2) a randomized controlled trial (in partnership with the Washington Metro Transit Police) that assessed the effectiveness of SCP to reduce car crime in Metro's parking facilities; and (3) an evaluation of the impact of SCP