Title
Authorization to Amend Ordinance FFY 2021 BJA Smart Policing Initiative Grant (Ordinance S-49736)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to amend Ordinance S-47902 agreement with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) for the Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2021 BJA Smart Policing Initiative grant. Further request authorization for the City Treasurer to accept, and the City Controller to disburse, all funds related to this item.
Report
Summary
In August 2021, the City Council approved the agreement for FFY 2021 BJA Smart Policing Initiative (SPI) grant in the amount of $500,000 under Ordinance S-47902 . We are requesting approval for the revised scope of the SPI FFY 2021 grant program. The new project will fund Arizona State University (ASU) to research, evaluate, and update Early Intervention Technology (EIS).
The Police Department seeks to expand and build on its current work with ASU to develop, enhance and evaluate a new data driven EIS. The project has six strategies that will be employed to address officer behavior.
- Strategy One: Establish a partnership between the Police Department and ASU's Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety. The goal of the partnership is to reduce adverse police officer behavior through the deployment of a data driven EIS.
- Strategy Two: Through administrative data and data-driven statistical techniques, establish indicators and thresholds that more accurately predict police officers who are most likely to engage in an adverse event within 12 months.
- Strategy Three: Identify and select officers, who, as seen through above established indicators and thresholds, are at high risk for a future adverse event, for non-punitive, early intervention programming.
- Strategy Four: Provide the identified and selected officers with evidence-based programming aimed at preventing a future adverse event. Supports include supervisory-based, and wellness-based interventions.
- Strategy Five: Provide post-intervention monitoring to observe (and intervene if necessary) officer performance following the intervention.
- Strategy Six: Develop an EIS to aggregate officer-level data, display officers who were identified as being at high risk for an adverse event and provide intervention management.
Funding from the SPI FY 2021 grant will be utilized for purchasing software, equipment, providing funding to Arizona State University for program evaluation, and funding project oversight to ensure all tasks are executed efficiently and effectively.
Contract Term
The contract term is Oct. 1, 2021 through Sept. 30, 2024.
Financial Impact
No matching funds are required.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Assistant City Manager Lori Bays and the Police Department.