Background/ Program Objectives:

D Data Collection and Storage: Data will be obtained through progress reports submitted by grantees, onsite monitoring and data stored in internal files. Data Validation and Verification: Data will be validated and verified through a review of progress reports submitted by grantees, telephone contact, and onsite monitoring of grantees’ performance by grant program managers. Additionally, the Fox Valley Technical College has management information systems that have the capacity to verify and validate training components. Data Limitations: None known at this time.

OJJDP administers the Missing and Exploited Children's Program (MECP). This program coordinates activities under the Missing Children's Assistance Act, including preventing abductions, investigating the exploitation of children, locating missing children and reuniting them with their families, and addressing the psychological impact of abduction on the child and the family.  Program funds are used to enhance the efforts of state and local communities in their comprehensive response to missing and exploited children issues through direct assistance in planning and program development; developing and disseminating policies, procedures and programmatic information related to search teams, investigations, and crisis intervention activities; reunification of youth with their families; and issues related to victimization of families and youth involved in the missing and exploitation problem.

OJJDP’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force program is helping communities protect children from online victimization. Nearly 30 million children and youth go online each year to research homework assignments, play games, and meet friends.  The electronic actions of the unwary and vulnerable can lead to stalking, theft, and other malicious or criminal actions.  In the worst instances, children and teenagers can become victims of molestation by providing personal information.  This initiative encourages state and local law enforcement agencies to develop and implement regional multijurisdictional, multi-agency task forces to prevent and respond to online crimes against children.

Performance:

Performance Measure: Personnel Trained in Missing & Exploited Children Issues (cumulative) [OJP] (NOTE:  In FY01, the actual was over reported by 10,000. Consequently, back year data has been updated to reflect the most accurate data available.)
            FY 2002 Target: 64,000
            FY 2002 Actual: 57,668
            Discussion: In FY 2002, OJJDP trained 3,906 criminal justice, regulatory, education, and social service personnel in missing and exploited children's issues.  Courses included Child Abuse and Exploitation Investigations, Child Fatality Investigations, Key Elements for Effective School Policing, Protecting Children Online for Investigators, Responding to Missing and Exploited Children, and Chief Executive Officer Training Seminar for Missing and Abducted Children.

D Data Collection and Storage: Data will be obtained through monthly progress reporting forms submitted by grantees, onsite monitoring and data stored in internal files. Data Validation and Verification: Data are validated through a review conducted by program managers. Data Limitations: Data for FY 2000 cannot be collected; therefore data displayed is cumulative from FY 2001

Performance Measure: Forensic Examinations of Electronic Equipment and Investigations Conducted by Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) [OJP]
            FY 2002 Target: 1,500 forensic examinations; 2,146 Investigations
            FY 2002 Actual: 2,497 forensic examinations; 3,538 investigations
            Discussion: In FY 2002, OJJDP exceeded its projected target for forensic examinations by 997.  ICAC task forces provided technical assistance to non-ICAC law enforcement agencies in the examination of computers seized in investigations of child sexual exploitation. Numbers exceeded projected target due to increased investigation activity as a result of Operation Avalanche, a global investigation of purchasers of online child pornography.  Additionally, OJJDP exceeded its investigations target by 1,392 through the funding of 30 ICAC task forces to provide investigative expertise to non-ICAC law enforcement agencies in cases involving the sexual exploitation of children.   Numbers exceeded projected target also due to increased investigation activity as a result of Operation Avalanche. 

Background/ Program Objectives:

D Data Collection and Storage: ADAM site information is collected from active sites and stored in NIJ files. Data Validation and Verification: NIJ verifies performance measures through progress reports submitted by grantees, onsite monitoring of grantee performance by grant program managers, and telephone contact. Data Limitations: None known at this time.

OJP works to prevent use and abuse of drugs and alcohol through a variety of demonstration, educational, and public outreach programs.  Research shows that drug use and crime are closely linked. OJP funds a number of ongoing data collection programs used to monitor the drug/crime nexus, including: NIJ’s Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program and the BJS’ National Crime Victimization Survey and Surveys of Jail Inmates, State Prisoners, Federal Prisoners, and Probationers. 

OJP’s ADAM program is the only federally-funded drug use prevalence program to directly address the relationship between drug use and criminal behavior.  It is also the only program to provide drug use estimates based on urinalysis results, which have proven to be the most reliable method of determining recent drug use. The ADAM program obtains voluntary, anonymous interviews and urine samples from arrestees at selected booking facilities throughout the United States.

Performance:

Performance Measure: Total Number of ADAM Sites [OJP]
            FY 2002 Target: 50
            FY 2002 Actual: 35
            Discussion:  Based on performance in FY 2002, we did not meet our target of 50 ADAM sites. To assess the benefit of the ADAM program relative to its costs, an independent evaluation is ongoing and due to be completed by January 2003. Pending the results of this evaluation, further site expansion has been put on hold.  At the end of fiscal year 2002, 33 sites were actively collecting ADAM data, with one additional site ready to collect in the near future, and another ready to start preliminary negotiations with the national contractor.

D Data Collection and Storage: grant program managers obtain Data from reports submitted by grantees, telephone contact, and on-site monitoring of grantees’ performance. Additionally, the OJP Drug Court Clearinghouse and Technical Assistance Project provides data to measure performance. Data Validation and Verification: Data will be validated and verified through a review of the data by Drug Courts monitors surveying grantees and reviewing data. Data Limitations: The number of new drug courts’ data is supported by evaluative measures.

Background/ Program Objectives:

According to the latest Bureau of Justice Statistics data published in May 2000, an estimated 417,000 local jail inmates (70% of all jail inmates) had been arrested for, or convicted of, a drug offense or had used drugs regularly.  Thirty-six percent were under the influence of drugs at the time of the offense, and 16% said they committed their offenses to get money for drugs. These facts demonstrate that the demand for drug treatment services is tremendous. OJP has a long history of providing drug-related resources to its constituencies in an effort to break the cycle of drugs and violence by reducing the demand, use and trafficking of illegal drugs.

The drug court movement began as a community-level response to reduce crime and substance abuse among criminal justice offenders.  This new approach integrated substance abuse treatment, sanctions, and incentives with case processing to place nonviolent drug-involved defendants in judicially supervised rehabilitation programs.  The traditional system had rarely provided substance abuse treatment to defendants in any systematic way and, in many cases, provided little or no threat of sanctions to drug offenders.  The OJP’s Drug Court Program was established in 1995 to provide financial and technical assistance to states, state courts, local courts, units of local government and Indian tribal governments to establish drug treatment courts.  Drug courts employ the coercive power of the judicial system to subject non-violent offenders to an integrated mix of treatment, drug testing, incentives and sanctions to break the cycle of substance abuse and crime. This community-level movement is supported through drug court grants and targeted technical assistance and training.

OJP’s Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) for State Prisoners Program is a formula grant program that assists states and units of local government in developing and implementing these programs within state and local correctional and detention facilities in which prisoners are incarcerated for a period of time sufficient to permit substance abuse treatment (6 - 12 months).

Performance:

Performance Measure: Total Number of New Drug Courts (cumulative) [OJP]
            FY 2002 Target: 426
            FY 2002 Actual: 442
            Discussion:  In FY 2002, OJP exceeded its target by 16 through the implementation of 66 new drug courts. 

D Data Definition: OJP is currently refining the definition of “treated” to indicate only those offenders that have completed the substance abuse treatment program during the reporting period, rather than those offenders that have started treatment, but have not completed the program.  When the refinement is finalized, there will most likely be a drop in the number of offenders treated. Data Collection and Storage: grant program managers obtain Data from reports submitted by grantees, telephone contact, and onsite monitoring of grantees’ performance. Data Validation and Verification: Data will be validated and verified through a review of the data by the Bureau of Justice Assistance that monitors surveys grantees. Data Limitations: This is self-reported and data are not verified through evaluative measures.  Due to the lag in data reported to the Bureau of Justice Assistance, there is a year lag in the reported data.

Performance Measure: MEASURE REFINED:  Number of Offenders Treated for Substance Abuse Annually (RSAT) [OJP] (NOTE: This measure has been refined to reflect offenders treated annually.)
            FY 2002 Target: 1,122
            FY 2002 Actual: 38,639
            Discussion: In FY 2002, 38,639 offenders received treatment.  Of the 38,639 receiving treatment through the RSAT program in FY 2002, 30,933 were adults and 3,618 were juveniles.  The number of offenders completing the aftercare program was 4,088.  In FY 2002, BJA exceeded its target by 37,517 through the treatment of 38,639 offenders for substance abuse.  BJA achieved this goal by enhancing the capability of state and local governments to provide residential substance abuse treatment for incarcerated inmates.  BJA significantly exceeded its target because jurisdictions are permitted to spend their awarded dollars during the fiscal year the award was made, plus two additional fiscal years.  Jurisdictions utilizing this option may treat very few offenders in the early years, however, a spike in the number of offenders treated will result when the remainder of the funding is actually spent in the later years.

Background/ Program Objectives:

OJP’s Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) is dedicated to serving our nation’s victims, including those in traditionally under served populations.  OVC, in carrying out its mission, (1) enacts and enforces consistent, fundamental rights for crime victims in federal, state, juvenile, military, and tribal justice systems; (2) provides comprehensive quality services for all victims; (3) integrates crime victims’ issues into all levels of the country to increase public awareness; (4) provides comprehensive quality training for service providers who work with crime victims; (5) develops a National Crime Victims Agenda to provide a guide for long term action; (6) serves in an international leadership role in promoting effective and sensitive victim services and rights around the world; and (7) ensures a central role for crime victims in the country’s response to violence and victimization.

Additionally, millions of Americans call upon religious leaders for spiritual guidance, support and information in times of personal crisis.  Many faith-based crime assistance programs across the country receive Victim of Crime Act funding to provide needed counseling, criminal justice support, referrals, and other critical services to America’s crime victims. 

Performance:

OJP is working with OMB and, in turn, the White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives, to develop an appropriate measure of performance.  The measure will focus on efforts to improve access and level the playing field for faith-based and community organizations in the federal grant process.  Currently efforts are underway to improve data collection in this area, to better identify the types of applicants.  This information will allow us to determine the effectiveness of our outreach efforts and accessibility to potential grantees.  Additionally, OVC will continue to work with and encourage Victims of Crime Act Grant Administrators to provide grants to faith-based subgrantees.

Discussion: In FY 2002, OVC decided to make a grant in FY 2003 to the National Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators (NAVAA) to survey State Administrators about the data elements of the VOCA Subgrant Award Report.  It is anticipated that the NAVAA report, due in FY 2004, may provide information on the dollars spent for victims at the subgrantee level by various implementing agencies including religious/faith-based organizations.  OVC plans to provide performance information on victims served by the latter.

Background/ Program Objectives:

As crime and the fear of crime rose in the 1970s and 1980s, it became apparent that the traditional law enforcement response was not effective.  Police were reacting to crime, rather than preventing it and communities felt law enforcement was unresponsive to their concerns.

A few cities began experimenting with community involvement in solving problems and addressing the conditions that lead to crime. They found it surprisingly effective.  As the practice grew and developed, it came to be known as community policing.

D Data Definition:  A new police officer is an additional officer hired using COPS funds or an officer redeployed to the street because of the time savings created by the effective use of COPS-funded technology, hiring a civilian with COPS funds, or the use of COPS-funded overtime.  This officer is over and above the number of officer positions that a grantee would otherwise fund or redeploy in absence of the COPS grant award. Data Collection and Storage: The COPS Management system tracks all individual grants. The COPS Count Survey collects data from police agencies on the number of COPS funded officers on the street. Data Validation and Verification: Data review is conducted as part of the grants management function. Data Limitations: None known at this time.

The COPS Office has three primary objectives: reduce the fear of crime; increase community trust in law enforcement; and contribute to the reduction in locally identified, targeted crime and disorder. Community policing rests on three primary principles: 1) continuous community-law enforcement partnership to address issues in the community; 2) a problem-solving approach to the causes of crime and disorder; and 3) sustained organizational change in the law enforcement agency that decentralizes command and empowers front-line officers to build partnerships in the community and address crime and disorder using innovative problem-solving techniques.

Under the COPS Office hiring grant programs (the Universal Hiring Program (UHP), Making Officer Redeployment Effective (MORE), COPS in Schools (CIS), and Indian Country programs), awards were based on a jurisdiction’s public safety needs and its ability to sustain the financial commitment to deploy additional community policing officers beyond the life of the grant.  The number of officers that are ultimately deployed can decrease from the initial award estimate based on many factors including: the success of a jurisdictions’ officer recruitment efforts; the actual availability of local matching funds (which can vary from initial estimates based on funding appropriated by local governments); a change in a project’s scope; and the number of officers that successfully complete academy training.

The COPS In Schools program provided funding to hire School Resource Officers (SROs). While the specific activities of an SRO are largely determined by local communities to address the unique needs of  their school, SROs are sworn law enforcement officers serving as liaisons to the school community, school-based problem solvers, and law-related educators.

They are an integral part of the protective fabric of the school, developing relationships with students, faculty and staff, building respect between law enforcement and schools, and helping to prevent problems from occurring.

Performance:

Performance Measure: New Police Officers Funded and On the Street [COPS]
            FY 2002 Target: 117,726 Funded, 100,000 On the Street
            FY 2002 Actual: 116,573 Funded, 88,028 On the Street
            Discussion: In FY 2002, the COPS Office funded 4,096 additional officers  (for a net increase of 2,449) across all its hiring programs, exceeding the goal of 3,602 for that year.  COPS did not reach its cumulative target of 117,726, however, because approximately 1,500 officers were withdrawn from COPS hiring programs as a result of grant award changes requested by grantees. A number of grantees requested modifications to their grants based on a desire to hire fewer officers than originally awarded or to hire part-time officers in the place of the full-time officers that were originally awarded.  Additionally, the grant closeout process resulted in a number of withdrawals by the COPS Office. Lastly, because of an increase in costs per officer in two programs, COPS in Schools and Indian Country, COPS awarded approximately 100 officers fewer than anticipated when targets were established. This brings the net total to 116,573.  Note that because of the impact of withdrawals and modifications, one cannot derive the cumulative number of officers funded through FY 2002 by adding the number of officers funded in FY 2002 to the previous year's cumulative total.  Withdrawals and modifications affect the cumulative number of officers funded since the COPS program was established.  By July 2002, 88,028 COPS-funded officers had been put on the street.  Approximately 96% of the additional officers, overtime and civilian positions funded through COPS hiring programs have been hired and deployed to the street.  MORE technology grantees are having difficulty getting their projects implemented; therefore, only 47% have redeployed their officers to the street.  An analysis of the annual survey conducted by COPS shows that grantees from large jurisdictions that are redeploying large numbers of officers are making slow progress because of the difficulty in bringing together consortia consisting of 20-30 agencies and the complexity of large projects.  COPS projects that many of these consortia will be in place and grantees will be able to redeploy additional officers in FY 2003.  COPS is offering intensive training and technical assistance to assist MORE grantees.

D Data Collection and Storage: The COPS Management system tracks all individual grants. Data Validation and Verification: Data review is conducted as part of the grants management function. Data Limitations: None known at this time.

Performance Measure:  DISCONTINUED MEASURE:  % Reduction in Locally Identified, Targeted Crime & Disorder; DISCONTINUED MEASURE:  % Reduction in Fear of Crime in Surveyed Communities; DISCONTINUED MEASURE:  % Increase in Trust in Local Law Enforcement in Surveyed Communities [COPS]
            Discussion: Percent Reduction in Fear of Crime in surveyed communities and Percent Increase in Trust in Local Law Enforcement in surveyed communities, have not been effectively surveyed; therefore COPS is unable to establish a meaningful baseline.  As a result, these measures are being discontinued.

Performance Measure: DISCONTINUED MEASURE: # of School Resource Officers Funded/Hired [COPS]
            FY 2002 Target: 6,103 Funded, 4,452 Hired
            FY 2002 Actual: 5,907 Funded, 4,241 Hired
            Discussion: The COPS Office achieved more than 96% of its target for the cumulative number of SROs funded by FY 2002.  FY 2002 projections for the target were based on an average cost per officer, which were 2.65% above the previous year’s average.  The higher cost reduced the number of officers that could be funded with FY 2002 funds.

Background/ Program Objectives:

D Data Collection and Storage: CRS collects and maintains data in a case management system, CRSIS. CRSIS establishes standard criteria for recording and classifying casework. Data Validation and Verification: CRS regional directors review and approve case information entered into CRSIS by conciliators; the data is reviewed and verified by analysts and managers at CRS headquarters. Data Limitations: In FY 2002, CRS implemented an upgraded case management system.  The new system is web-based and allows for easier access to data.  CRS expects to further revise the current system to better manage data requirements and improve the accuracy of the data collection including the quality and type of CRS services, products, and outcomes.  This in turn will permit better management, evaluation, and improvements in CRS program operations.

The Department’s Community Relations Service (CRS) continued to improve and expand upon the delivery of conflict resolution and violence prevention services to state and local officials and community leaders in FY 2002.  These services include: direct mediation and conciliation services; transfer of knowledge and expertise in the establishment of partnerships and formal agreements for locally-derived solutions; development of community trust and cooperation; improvement of local preparedness for addressing violence and civil disorders; and assistance in enhancing the local capacity to resolve local conflicts.

Performance:

Performance Measure: Communities with Improved Conflict Resolution Capacity as a Result of CRS Assistance [CRS]
            FY 2002 Target: 425
            FY 2002 Actual: 719
            Discussion: CRS exceeded it target goal in FY 2002.  In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, CRS took the initiative to assess community racial and ethnic tensions emanating from the attacks.  CRS focused its efforts on counterterrorism issues and the dual imperatives of “Conflict Resolution and Violence Prevention.”  As a result, an intensive program of outreach and crisis response at the national and local community level was implemented.  These new efforts coupled with the continuous demands for CRS’ services resulted in more communities with improved conflict resolution capacity.