Center for Public Safety Initiatives
Center for
Public Safety Initiatives
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- Center for Public Safety Initiatives
Center for Public Safety Initiatives
Department of Criminal Justice
Rochester Institute of Technology
93 Lomb Memorial Drive
George Eastman Hall, Room 2189
Rochester, NY 14623-5603
CPSI@rit.edu
(585) 475 – 6386
Overview
The Center for Public Safety Initiatives (CPSI) is a dynamic, multi-disciplinary research center that examines strategies to reduce crime and enhance the administration of justice. It provides program evaluation, data analytics, and project management services to area law enforcement, community non-profits, and other criminal justice professionals, and it contributes to general knowledge generation of the nature and causes of crime and violence. Its educational goals include training graduate and undergraduate students in strategic planning, program evaluation, and policy analysis.
The Center's research primarily focuses on:
- Understanding violence and crime.
- The impact of violence on the broader community.
- Program evaluation of projects to reduce violence and crime.
- Intersections between criminal justice, technology, and society.
- Research examining the administration of justice and the impact of justice processes on society.
The foundation of the Center is the practice of action research in which relevant data and analyses are brought to bear on the day-to-day decision-making processes of organizations. The Center serves the practice of policy development and implementation in real time and is a testing ground for 21st century university engagement, demonstrating how rigorous research and analysis can play a role in improving the lives of society’s most marginalized citizens.
Additionally, the Center for Public Safety Initiatives administers the Monroe Crime Analysis Center and the North Country Crime Analysis Center as part of an agreement with the NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services. It also actively seeks projects where it can bring to bear its unique partnerships, research skills, and educational commitments.
The work of CPSI began in 2000 with work on the problem of lethal violence in Rochester. Although related work goes back to the early 1990’s under Mayor Tom Ryan, initiatives continued and expanded under subsequent Mayors. The focus on homicide in Rochester in 2000 involved a research partnership with the Rochester Police, local probation and parole, Monroe County District Attorney and the United States Attorney United States for the Western District, under what was known as the Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (SACSI).
The SACSI work led directly to the reformulation of crime analysis at RPD which was eventually the model for the Monroe Crime Analysis Center (MCAC) and other analysis centers across the state and are supported by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. The local analysis center’s key staff began as RIT students working for CPSI. CPSI continues to support crime analysis in Rochester with eight full time employees currently working at MCAC with funding from the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS). The SACSI has also produced several other benefits for Rochester, and became institutionalized with federal funding from Project Safe Neighborhoods.
That an individual's compassion and empathy for others obligates one to a commitment to the cause of social justice.
That citizens deserve public institution that operate efficiently, effectively, and transparently, leveraging best practices in an unyielding effort to improve.
That everyone, regardless of race, sex, gender identity, sexual preference, economic class, or other category, deserves a safe community to live in, and to live free from fear of victimization.
That the world is not just, and is not safe, and is not free from victimization, so we must find ways to change those conditions.
That if you are an academic, and you care about social justice, you must find ways to engage practitioners to do work that helps them, and that if you are a practitioner, you must seek out ways to improve your organization through research and analysis.
That to make these changes, research should be action-oriented, so that it can be applied to practical problems of the real world.
That science can be used for great good, but can also be manipulated, so your work must always be methodologically rigorous and of the highest ethical standard.
That you do good work because you care about the work. That you don't have to be the smartest to succeed, you just have to be passionate and willing to work harder than others.
And lastly, but perhaps most importantly, that you seek to change the world not only by influencing organizations and systems, but by enlisting people to the cause through teaching and mentorship.
Current Projects
The objective of this project is to study the elements of a non-fatal shooting investigation that are associated with a successful arrest. Types of clearance include Administrative Clearance, Exceptional Clearance, Field, and Cleared by Arrest. In order to ensure public safety, it is important for police departments to clear shooting investigations by arresting the suspect responsible, thereby deterring future activity. The arrest of a suspect is counted as cleared within the clearance rate of a police department, and is listed within the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) published annually by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Clearance rates are a manner through which a police agency’s effectiveness may be judged; however cases may also be cleared by exceptional or administrative clearance, in which no suspect is arrested. Exceptional clearance is counted the same as an arrest within the UCR (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2004) and may inflate the overall clearance rate.
Dispute-involved gun victimization is traumatic, costly, measurable, predictable--and avoidable. The grant request for $194,540.62 for Community Engagement to Reduce Victimization (CERV) will support engaging community partners with victims of gun violence to resolve underlying disputes with tailored approaches predicted to decrease retaliatory victimization. Retaliatory violence is a serious problem in Rochester, NY. 60% of shootings that occurred in the City between 2010 and 2013 were linked to retaliatory disputes. Existing efforts to address the problem have been in isolation of one another and have failed to adequately leverage community resources to develop a comprehensive, community-based, public-health informed response.
CERV will strengthen safety-net providers in the region, reaching more people by linking previously isolated systems together before new violent events unfold and further victimizations occur. The health care system will connect victims of violent gun trauma to CERV. The Center for Public Safety Initiatives will provide expertise to inform whether the victimization is centered on a dispute. A system of safety net providers will engage and triage appropriate cases with interventions to reduce subsequent gun victimization. The objective of CERV is to improve the quality and effectiveness of the health system in a measurable way by reducing gun violence and trauma victimization; and strive to help safety net providers reach and intervene with gun victims before new victimization events unfold.
The Center for Public Safety Initiatives (CPSI) provides support personnel for the Monroe Gun- Involved Violence Elimination (GIVE) Initiative, including a dedicated Crime Analyst and Community Engagement Specialist These positions are housed in the Monroe Crime Analysis Center, located at the City of Rochester’s Public Safety Building and jointly supervised by the Rochester Police Department (RPD) and the Consultant. The crime analyst’s activities include developing targeted firearm offender and firearm hotspot programs; coordinating all targeted offender and hotspot based research, planning, and activity between the GIVE partner agencies; as well as creating and maintaining a criteria-based method for identifying high-risk firearm violence offenders, along with other tasks. The Community Engagement Specialist is developing a local communications strategy for firearm violence prevention, promoting GIVE internally and externally though presentations, literature, new media, and strategic marketing, and other activities.
The Center for Public Safety Initiatives (CPSI) at RIT is tasked with managing Monroe Crime Analysis Center (MCAC). CPSI will continue to manage this analysis center for years 2017-2018. MCAC is accountable for all Part I crime categories and intelligence within the designated Police Service Areas (PSAs). The analysts will be responsible daily for maintenance of related data, the identification of crime patterns/trends and dissemination of intelligence products. Additionally, the analysts will work closely with the quad Captains and Investigative Coordinators to supplement problem based action plans and response tactics.
The purpose of the Niagara Falls Project Safe Neighborhoods is to reduce gun crime and gang violence by implementing a strategy that focuses on dispute-related violence. This strategy will be evidence based, research driven, intelligence-led, and involve a strategic problem solving approach to reducing firearm crimes and gang violence. Led by the Niagara Falls Police Department, the Niagara Falls PSN team will utilize enforcement, deterrence, and community outreach/engagement strategies to intervene in ongoing retaliatory disputes and prevent subsequent violence. The objective of the Niagara Falls PSN are to (1) Establish and expand evidence- based programming in Niagara Falls that enables the PSN team to effectively and sustainably prevent and respond to gun crime and gang violence; (2) Establish a sustainable research partnership with RIT’s Center for Public Safety Initiatives that is integrated into the strategic and tactical operations of the PSN team and community agencies; (3) Foster effective and consistent collaborations among law enforcement partners in Niagara Falls, external agencies such Niagara University, and the communities in which they serve that increase public safety and minimize gun crime and gang violence; (4) Create and maintain coordination among federal, state, and local law enforcement officials, with an emphasis on prevention, and tactical intelligence gathering.
The Center for Public Safety Initiatives (CPSI) at RIT is tasked with managing current staff at the Northern Country Crime Analysis Center located in Malone, New York. CPSI will continue to manage this analysis center for years 2017-2018. CPSI will help implement evidence based policing strategies and assist in creating its connection with law enforcement agencies in the local area. The primary function of this center is to analyze crime within the area, and to provide this information to local law enforcement to assist in selecting more effective tactics and formulating strategies to significantly reduce crime, with an emphasis on violent crime and gun related crime. The Center is staffed with a team of crime analysts and sworn law enforcement members who support area law enforcement agencies in their efforts to track and reduce Part I Crime.
TIPS is a community outreach program supported by the Rochester Police Department that aims to give residents the opportunity to voice their concerns about their community. RIT provides the community survey for the TIPS events. The survey includes questions regarding what residents like about the community, community concerns about crime, as well as other related questions.
Working papers:
Founding Faculty
John M. Klofas, Ph.D. is the founder and first director of the Center for Public Safety Initiatives (CPSI). He served on the faculty of Criminal Justice at RIT from 1989 to his retirement as Distinguished Professor Emeritus in 2020. His tenure included three, occasionally agonizing, stints as department chairperson. As a professor, Dr. Klofas engaged students in the research done through CPSI as well as in demanding, and sometimes frustrating, analyses of issues of crime and justice. While this may have occasionally annoyed some of those students, their successes are the source of great pride for Dr. Klofas.
Dr. Klofas’ scholarly work and publications focus on community violence, management in criminal justice, police reform and community perspectives on criminal justice. His work with Dr. Irshad Altheimer has focused on preventing retaliatory violence. This approach avoids the hazards associated with some statistical prediction methods by supporting identification and intervention in active violent disputes.
John has also worked with the United States Department of Justice on projects including serving on the national training team for the Bureau of Justice Assistance’ sponsored Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) violence reduction program, and as co-director of the National Innovation Suite Researcher-Practitioner Fellows Academy. He also served as a scientific reviewer of criminal justice intervention programs for CrimeSolutions.gov. He has worked on reform in policing for over 20 years as a member of teams overseeing implementation of consent decrees in urban police departments across the country.
With the founding of CPSI, Dr. Klofas sought to reflect the values he has come to regard as important over his career. He provided new and demanding experiences for students, and for colleagues. His strong advocacy for locally relevant research is reflected in CPSI’s continuing commitment to work in the community, and in the training of students to contribute to the communities in which they live. His commitment to science is balanced by an equal commitment to justice.
Working Papers
- 2023 Homicide Statistics for 24 U.S. Cities
- Federally Qualified Health Centers as Hubs for Victims of Violence
- CERV Wraparound Funds May 2022 to May 2023
- CVI Effectiveness on Gun Violence
- Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs: A Cursory Examination
- Trauma-Informed Care: Effectiveness on Recidivism
- Years of Potential Life Lost in Rochester, NY
- Race and Crime in a Rustbelt Suburb: Irondequoit, NY, Part III
- Evaluating Harm Indexes: Conceptual Framework, Benefits, and Limitations
- Community Violence Intervention and Telehealth
- A Comprehensive Review of Case Clearance
- 2022 Homicide Statistics for 24 U.S. Cities
- Race and Crime in a Rustbelt Suburb: Irondequoit, NY
- Homicide Response Team Preliminary Analysis
- The Impact of Bail Reform: What the Data Shows
- Violence as a Public Health Issue
- Jordan Health Project: Comprehensive Services Hub for Victims of Violence
- Community Based Violence Reduction
- Social Media and Retaliatory Violence
- Social Media Intelligence Best Practices
- Challenges with Trauma-Informed Care
- Race and Crime in a Rustbelt Suburb: Irondequoit, NY | Part II.
- Nonfatal Shooting Initiative: Evaluation of Newburg and Utica Site
- TIPS Jones Square Park
- TIPS Scio Street
- CERV Wrap Around Funds, May 2022-23
- Rehabilitating Sex Offenders
- Gun Violence and Bail Reform
- Community Concern and Desire Thomas Ryan Park
- Community Concern and Desire Troup St Park
- Community Concern and Desire Jones Park
- 2021 Homicide Statistics for 24 U.S Cities
- Rochester Homicide Statistics for 2021
- Envisioning a Coordinated Services Hub for Victims of Violence
- Developing a Coordination Assessment Tool for a Retaliatory Violence Victims Services Hub
- Identifying Best Practices in Policing: An Overview of the Evidence-Based Policing Matrix
- Disparity Impact Statement: Victims of Retaliatory Violence
- 05 Firearm Violence in 2020 Series: Shooting Victims 5 Year Average (2 of 5)
- 04 Firearm Violence in 2020 Series: Shooting Victims Descriptions (1 of 5)
- 03 Presence of Core Investigative Variables in Incident Reports
- 02 Guide to Survive Being Addicted to Heroin
- Community Feedback on the Brighton Police Department
- 2021-01 Rochester Homicide Statistics 2020 (Updated)
- 2021-CLEAN-01 2020 Overdose Data in the Project CLEAN Target Area & accompanying 2021 Guide to Survive Being Addicted to Heroin
- Wrap Around Funds for Victims of Violence
- Community Engagement to Reduce Victimization
- Living with Warrants: Life under the Sword of Damocles 2019
- Rochester Homicide Statistics for 2018
- Community Concerns and Desires Analysis of Jones Park TIPS Initiatives May 2019
- Community Concerns and Desires Analysis of Arnett and Genesee Intersection TIPS Initiatives June 2019
- Community Concerns and Desires Analysis of Fernwood Park TIPS Initiatives July 2019
- Fatal and Nonfatal Shootings 2015-2018
- Gun-Involved Violence Elimination- An Overview
- Local Criminal Justice Data, Part II in a Series 2019
- Overdoses in Monroe County 2018
- Local Criminal Justice Data Part I: Police Staff and Population (2018)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Clinton Avenue TIPS Initiative(August 2018)
- An Analysis of a Police Program's Post-Training Tool (June 2018)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Flint Street TIPS Initiatives (June 2018)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Jones Park TIPS Initiative (May 2018)
- 2018 Imagine RIT Survey Results: Perceptions of Gun Policies (May 2018)
- Periodic Catalog of Current and Emerging Responses to the Opiod Epidemic-Updated 07.19.18
- Defining an Overdose: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?
- Shooting Case Clearance in Rochester, NY 2018-07
- Rochester Homicide Statistics for 2017
- Overview of Monroe County Jail population 10-2-2017 Roster and Census
- Overview of Annual Survey Data Across Three New York County Jails from 2010 – 2015
- Chasing the Data: Monroe County Opiod-Related Data
- Analysis of Rochester/Monroe County Gun Violence Reductions Efforts
- Swift, Certain, & Fair: Defense Attorneys' Views of the Program
- Lake Officers' Perception of Body Worn Cameras in Policing Before Implementation: An Executive Summary
- Genesee Officers' Perception of Body Worn Cameras in Policing After Implementation: An Executive Summary
- Goodman and Genesee Officers' Perception of Body Worn Cameras in Policing Before Implementation: An Executive Summary
- Clinton Officers' Perception of Body Worn Cameras in Policing After Implementation: An Executive Summary
- Community Views of Body Worn Cameras in the Rochester Police Department: An Executive Summary
- Clinton Officers' Perception of Body Worn Cameras in Policing Before Implementation: An Executive Summary
- Analysis of the 2017 Imagine RIT Attendees’ Perceptions of Opioids and the Opioid Epidemic
- Fluctuations in Rochester Homicides and Shootings from 2000 to 2016
- 2017 Imagine RIT Attendees' Perceptions of Opioids and the Opioid Epidemic
- An Overview of Procedural Justice
- Community Views on Criminal Justice: Methodology
- Community Organizations' Views of the Rochester Police Department: Part 1
- Community Organizations' Views of the Rochester Police Department: Part 2
- Rochester Police Department's Efforts to Strengthen Community Relations
- Five Criminal Justice Policy Choices in New York: Opinions From the Imagine RIT 2016 Survey
- Community Views on Criminal Justice: Quarter 4 Report
- Best Practices in Police-Community Relations in Two Cities with Large Populations
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Edgerton Park TIPS Compared to TIPS Average (August 2016)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Norton Village TIPS Compared to TIPS Average (July 2016)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Genesee & McCree Street TIPS Compared to TIPS Average (June 2016)
- Community Views on Criminal Justice - Third Quarter Report
- Five Criminal Justice Policy Choices in NY: Opinions from the Imagine RIT 2016 Survey
- Community Views on Criminal Justice - Second Quarter Report
- Comparison of Cities' Homicide Rates Over Time: 2016 Update
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Carter & Norton Street TIPS Initiative (August 2015)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Avenue D TIPS Initiative (July 2015)
- Swift, Certain, and Fair Focus Group Report
- Community Views on Criminal Justice: First Quarterly Report
- How Urban Violence is Addressed in the Media: Differences by Audience
- Local Anti-Violence Media Products and Design Decisions
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Grand Avenue TIPS Initiative (June 2015)
- Core Information about Community Violence
- School Suspension that Works (School suspension paper 3 of 3)
- Alternatives to Out-of-School Suspension (School suspension paper 2 of 3)
- Comparison of Cities' Homicide Rates Over Time
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Troup Street TIPS Initiative (May 2015)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Comparing Responses to Jefferson Avenue TIPS Survey over Time (2009-2014)
- Summary Considerations for Anti-Poverty Initiative Safe Neighborhoods Working Group
- Is School Suspension Beneficial (School suspension paper 1 of 3)
- Measuring Recidivism: Definitions, Errors, and Data Sources
- Correlates with Use of Force by Police
- Review of Select Rochester Violence Prevention Programs
- Rochester Firearm-Related Violence Overview 2004-2014
- Situational Factors of Lethality Literature Review
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Scio Street TIPS Initiative (May 2014)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Chamberlain Street TIPS Initiative (June 2014)
- Teen Empowerment Youth-Police Dialogues Final Evaluation Report
- Messaging and Methods for Behavioral Change Media Campaigns: What Makes Effective Anti-Violence Media?
- RYVP Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program Summary
- Probation Juvenile Justice Reform Final Evaluation (click here for Appendices to this report)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Jay Street TIPS Initiative (August 2014)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Jefferson Avenue TIPS Initiative (July 2014)
- Overview of Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs
- Former Dealer Focus Group: Approaching and Engaging Drug Dealers
- Marijuana Moves: Opinions on a Policy in Flux (Imagine RIT 2014 survey)
- Five Things to Do and Ten Reasons Why We Fail at Reducing VIolence
- Conkey and Clifford Series (#1): Residents' View of the Neighborhood
- Conkey & Clifford Series (#2): Comparing Communities
- Conkey & Clifford Series (#3): Residents' Feelings and Interpretations of Open Air Marijuana Market
- "Ban the Box"
- Burglary Series: Motivation and Target Selection
- Burglary Series: Method in The Criminal Act
- Linking Research on Dispute Related Violence with Violence Reduction Strategies
- Analysis of Dispute Related Shootings
- Step by Step Final Report
- Firearm Injuries to Children
- Teen Empowerment Youth-Police Dialogue Interim Report
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Pulaski Park TIPS Initiative (May 2013)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Jefferson Avenue TIPS Initiative (July 2013)
- Juvenile Justice Reform Evaluation
- Rochester Youth Violence Partnership Report
- Five site evaluation of SNUG: A violence reduction program based on Chicago Ceasefire
- The Power of Perception: Beliefs About Crime in Rochester, New York
- Preliminary Descriptive Analysis of the Rochester Shooting Database
- Evaluation of Judicial Process Commission's Women's Re-entry Project
- Calls for Service-Walmart, Gates, New York
- An Exploration of Gun Violence and Prevention: Toward the Development of an Inclusive Database (Paper 1 of 3)
- An Exploration of Gun Violence and Prevention: Toward the Development of an Inclusive Database: Databases as Prevention (Paper 2 of 3)
- Homicide in Rochester, NY 2012: Comparison of Rates for a Selection of United States and International Cities
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Aberdeen Park TIPS Initiative (July 2012)
- The Problem with Mary Jane: Street-Level Marijuana Sales and Quality of Life in Urban Neighborhoods
- Neighbors, Friends and Family: Women Arrested for Burglary in Rochester, NY 2009-2010
- Analysis of 2011 Rochester-City Pawn Shop Transactions: The Year in Review
- Pawn Shop Analyses: Legislation Series: A Model Collateral Loan Broker Code
- An Analysis of Pawn Shops: Legislation Series: Overview of Article 5 of the General Business Law
- Pawn Shop Analyses: Legislation Series: Where does pawn shop legislation exist in New York State?
- The Geography of Crime in Rochester-Patterns over time (2005-2011)
- Data Analysis of Rochester Burglar Arrests, 2009-2010
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Pulaski Park TIPS Initiative (July 2012)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Jones Square TIPS Initiative (July 2012)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Conkey and Clifford TIPS Initiative (May 2012)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Frost Avenue TIPS Initiative (May 2012)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Jones Square TIPS Initiative (May 2012)
- Media Campaigns & Crime Prevention : A Review of the Literature
- The Social and Legal Effects of Medical Marijuana: State Legislation and Rules
- IMPACT County Agency Website Analysis: Access to Pertinent Pistol Permit Information
- Sustainable Communities and Corrections: The Impact on Local Populations
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Ontario and Scio TIPS Initiative: THE RETURN (May 2011)
- Analysis of 2010 Rochester-City Pawn Shop Transactions
- Representation and Recruitment: A Three-Part Analysis of the Police Hiring Process Within New York State
- Restorative Justice in Schools: An examination of peace circles within Monroe High School
- UPDATED: Community Planning Models To Reduce Violence
- Police Hiring Data Collection & Analysis
- Law Enforcement Related Violence Reduction Strategies
- Calls for Service to Walmart
- Real Talk, Real Walk—A Model for the Nation: Youth/Police Strategize to Improve RPD’s Relationship with Youth
- Preliminary Findings of the PATHS Curriculum
- Immigration/Migration and Crime in Rochester, NY
- Camp Good Days and Special Times Rochester City School District High School Leadership and Transitional Program: Participant Observation from a Volunteer’s Perspective
- Rochester Safe and Sound: Call-in Focus Group Report
- Violence Issues in Rochester, New York’s Latino Youth
- The Group 14621 Neighborhoods: A Public Safety Assessment and Recommendations
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Ontario and Scio TIPS Initiative (July 2010)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Lyell Avenue TIPS Initiative (May 2010)
- Community Planning Models to Reduce Violence
- Police Department Representation in New York State
- The Police Recruitment Process:Rochester, NY
- The Safer Monroe Area Reentry Team (SMART) Reentry Survey Report
- Recommendations for Addressing the Problem of Illegal Transfer of Guns, including Straw Purchases in Monroe County, New York
- Courage Bowl Analysis
- Domestic Violence in Gay Communities
- Immigration and Crime Rates
- Immigration into the Greater Rochester Area
- The Cost and Consequence of Community Violence: Indirect Effects of Community Violence on Health-related Issues
- Machismo Literature Review
- Summary of Research on Mass Murder
- Motor Vehicle Theft: The Offender, Environment, and Community
- Prisoner Reentry and Rochester’s Neighborhoods
- Re-entry Services Focus Group
- Rochester Motor Vehicle Break-Ins
- Street Corner Market Initiative
- Examining Rochester Community Youth-Police Relationships: Analysis of Teen Empowerment Police and Youth Surveys
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Hudson Avenue TIPS Initiative (November 2009)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Jefferson Avenue TIPS Initiative (April 2009)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Dayton Street TIPS Initiative (February 2009)
- The Cost and Consequence of Community Violence: Medical Costs of Non-Fatal Shootings and Other Assaults in Rochester
- Copper Burglary and Copper Prices in Rochester, NY
- Community Concerns and Desires: Driving Park and Dewey (September 2008)
- The Cost and Consequence of Community Violence: New York Health Care Reform Act (HCRA)
- The Cost and Consequence of Community Violence: Trauma Centers Closing
- The Cost and Consequence of Community Violence: Who is affected by the medical costs associated with gun-related injuries and deaths?
- The Cost and Consequence of Community Violence: What are the medical costs associated with gun-related injuries and deaths?
- The Cost and Consequence of Community Violence: How many gun-related injuries and deaths are documented?
- Rochester SACSI Research: Theory, Method and Intervention Under SACSI
- Rochester SACSI Research: Intervention Issues: Implications for the Implementation of Exit Interviews in The Monroe County Jail
- Rochester SACSI Research: Estimates of the Size of the Rochester Drug Market and their Implications for Addressing Homicide
- Rochester SACSI Research: Guns, Disputes and Drug Sales: Focus Groups at Monroe Correctional Facility
- Rochester SACSI Research: Genesee Neighborhood Focus Group
- Rochester SACSI Research: Maple Neighborhood Focus Group
- Rochester SACSI Research: Three Kinds of Murder
- Rochester SACSI Research: Clinton Neighborhood Focus Group
- Rochester SACSI Research: Drugs and Homicide 1992-2000
- Rochester SACSI Research: Follow-up to Grand Homicide Review, March 7, 2001
CPSI Local CJ Data Project
Questions of interest concerning local criminal justice systems are often hindered by a lack of available data. Specific information on the criminal justice system is often unknown to members of the community, but is essential for active engagement in a democracy. The Local Criminal Justice Data Project addresses these issues by providing publicly available data to the community. A collection of criminal justice data for Monroe County, NY, includes, police personnel, local crime and arrest data, local budgets for criminal justice departments, jail populations, and other criminal justice costs. The data collected can be found in our Story Map Collection and is also discussed further in our working papers.