Source: United States Senator for Ohio Sherrod Brown
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) has awarded a $699,994 grant to the City of Cincinnati through its Local Law Enforcement Crime Gun Intelligence Center Integration Initiative. This grant will go toward the city’s Crime Gun Intelligence Center (CGIC) and allow the center to expand and support partnerships to locate areas of chronic and sustained violence in order reduce the number of aggravated assaults and homicides and increase successful prosecutions of violent crime involving feloniously used firearms in Cincinnati. Specifically, CGIC will use these funds to focus its prevention and investigation efforts on areas of Cincinnati which have been impacted by recent increases in gun-related violent crime.
“Safe communities depend on well-trained and equipped law enforcement officers,” Brown said. “This funding is a critical investment and will provide essential resources for law enforcement to keep communities safe from gun violence.”
CGIC is designed to improve effectiveness investigations and prosecutions of violent crime, implement a comprehensive training program for offices to prevent violent crime, collaborate with community partners in violent crime prevention strategies and improve responses to gunfire events.
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