This program will provide funding to support states, territories, tribal communities, and units of local government to develop, implement, and test innovative and research-based responses to crime and other public safety and community challenges, as identified through data analysis.

Challenges

credit:

may include chronic crime problems, emerging crime problems, issues related to investigating and prosecuting online child exploitation, or barriers to juvenile justice agencies' ability to address such problems, including those related to juvenile arrest, detention, referral to court, diversion, adjudication, disposition to probation, out-of-home-placement, other sanctions or services, and aftercare.