Smart Prosecution Initiative

Program goal(s) name: Support prosecutors to solve chronic problems and fight violent crime. Program goal(s) description: Improve prosecutor operations to more efficiently and effectively aid communities in achieving a reduction in crime. Program objective(s) name: Enhance prosecutor capacity Program objective(s) description: Test, establish, and/or expand programming that enhances prosecutors' ability to effectively and sustainably prevent and respond to crime, especially violent crime, which could include the hiring of new prosecutors; Foster effective, formalized, and consistent collaborations with external agencies, and the communities they serve, to increase public safety; Use technology, intelligence, and data in innovative ways that enable prosecutors' offices to focus resources on the people and places associated with high concentrations of crime and to allow state and local prosecutors' offices to improve their operations in an effort to more efficiently and effectively aid communities in achieving a reduction in crime; Enable prosecutors' offices to reduce caseloads to manageable levels through office modernization, hiring analytical or support staff, and updating information technology.