Improving Crime Data Project
Project objectives: To improve crime data collection techniques, standards, analysis, and dissemination methods across criminal justice jurisdictions. To enhance capacity in urban communities to better understand crime and to improve criminal justice and anti-crime efforts through improved data-driven planning, assessment and evaluation of criminal justice issues. This is expected to facilitate timely and accurate decision-making on a wide range of crime issues that affect federal, state, and local crime analysis and prevention policies.
Initiative: This is an Urban Serving Universities (formerly Great Cities Universities) initiative in the justice area
Sites: This project had two phases: Phase I (2002-2005) focused on two test sites: Atlanta, Georgia, and St. Louis, Missouri; Phase II (2005-2009) included police departments from across the United States.
Funding Sources: National Institute of Justice and Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
Project Period: December 2002 – February 2010
Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert R. Friedmann, Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Rosenfeld, Professor and Chair, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri – St. Louis
Institutional Partners
Air Force Office of Special Investigations
National Guard Bureau Counter Drug Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Justice Research and Statistics Association (JRSA)
National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR)
Atlanta Police Department
Cobb County Police Department
DeKalb County Police Department
East Point Police Department
Fayetteville Police Department (Won the IACP 2004 Leadership in Technology Award for Excellence in Law Enforcement Communications and Interoperability – Small Agency)
Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office
Fulton County Police Department
Georgia Crime Information Center, Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Griffin Police Department
High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) – Atlanta
Marietta Police Department (Won the IACP 2004 Leadership in Technology Award for Innovation in Information Technology – Medium Agency)
Riverdale Police Department
High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) – Milwaukee
Regional Justice Information Services (REJIS)
St. Louis Association of Community Organizations (SLACO)
St. Louis County Police Department
Alfred Blumstein, J. Erik Johnson Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research, Carnegie Mellon University, National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR)
Noah Fritz, Deputy Director, National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center – Rocky Mountain; Director, Crime Mapping and Analysis Program
William Lueckenhoff, Supervisory Special Agent, Lead, Information Sharing Initiatives, Criminal Justice Information Services Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Stephen Mastrofski, Professor of Public and International Affairs, Director, Administration of Justice, George Mason University
Kenna Quinet, Chair, Criminal Justice, Law and Public Safety Faculty, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Purdue University
William V. Pelfrey, Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, Virginia Commonwealth University
Kurt F. Schmid, National Director, High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), Office of National Drug Control Policy
Robert Stewart, Bobcat Training and Consulting, Inc., Chair, Strategic Planning Committee, National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE)
Stan Stojkovic, Professor and Associate Dean, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee