Grants & Funding
Bureau of Justice Statistics
BJS administers national programs to assist States and localities to upgrade the completeness, accuracy, and accessibility of criminal records. Criminal records are critical to implementing law enforcement strategies, conducting background checks, and supporting statistical analysis of crime trends.
Bureau of Justice Assistance
BJA was created to help America’s state and local governments reduce violence and restore security in our neighborhoods and to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our nation’s criminal justice system.
National Institute of Justice
NIJ is the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice and is dedicated to researching crime control and justice issues. NIJ provides objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and justice, particularly at the State and local levels.
Office for Victims of Crime
The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) administers the Crime Victims Fund (established under the 1984 Victims of Crime Act) to help victims and victim service providers with program funding in accordance with OVC’s Program Plan for the fiscal year.
COPS
COPS provides grants to tribal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to hire and train community policing professionals, acquire and deploy cutting-edge crime-fighting technologies, and develop and test innovative policing strategies. COPS-funded training helps advance community policing at all levels of law enforcement - from line officers to law enforcement executives - as well as others in the criminal justice field. Because community policing is by definition inclusive, COPS training also reaches state and local government leaders and the citizens they serve. This broad range of programs helps COPS offer agencies support in virtually every aspect of law enforcement, and it’s making America safer, one neighborhood at a time.
