All people deserve to feel safe where they live, work, learn, and play. Safety is an essential part of a vibrant community, every bit as important as quality affordable housing, good jobs, and high-performing schools. Safety is also critical to attracting new homeowners and businesses to neighborhoods where their investments can be catalysts for revitalization.
The Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) launched the Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation (BCJI) program in 2012 to encourage data-driven, community-rooted strategies to reduce crime and spur revitalization. The BCJI program (formerly known as Innovations in Community Based Crime Reduction, or CBCR) provides grants, training, and technical assistance to help community organizations work with residents and partners to pinpoint and address drivers of crime in their localities.
The BCJI approach focuses on crafting crime-reduction strategies that are collaborative, community-led, evidence-based, integrated into broader revitalization efforts, and sustainable. Since 2012, LISC has provided technical assistance to help local BCJI recipients in more than 75 communities form these strategies. BJA and its national partners continue to use LISC's model to provide training and technical assistance for new rounds of BCJI grantees.
BCJI partners employ diverse strategies for crime prevention, resident engagement and neighborhood revitalization, all to tackle the root causes of crime.
LISC has supported the BCJI program in 74 cities and towns across the country.
As a training and technical assistance provider to BCJI sites since 2012, LISC has gathered useful resources to help other communities plan and implement safety initiatives.
The DOJ Bureau of Justice Assistance is supporting data-driven, comprehensive responses to crime in some of the country’s most troubled communities through BCJI.
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