Every year Law Enforcement Agencies around the country apply for grants. Competition is stiff. One of the things that can help your grant stand taller than the rest?
Solid data.
Facts and figures paint a picture that shows the grant reviewer your need—and why your agency deserves a grant over another.
Here are 3 resources that can help your next grant stand out:
Arrest Data Analysis Tool – Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
This dynamic data analysis tool allows you to generate tables and figures of arrest data from 1980 onward. You can view national arrest estimates, customized either by age and sex or by age group and race, for many offenses. This tool also enables you to view data on local arrests.
Check out the Arrest Data Analysis Tool
Kids Count
Great site for Juvenile Justice statistical research for your area and for comparisons regarding other geographical areas of the U.S. Data can be viewed in the form of profiles, rankings, or raw data. Created by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Kids Count has compiled indicators of child well-being from U.S. Census data and other sources, and created an interactive online database.
Crime Statistics – Finding Statistics and Data – Managed by the University of Michigan Library
Find data produced by governments on a wide variety of topics including data on local communities, other countries, criminal justice, incarceration and jails.