During the 1995 fiscal year, OJP focused on crime and violence as it sought to meet the challenges of implementing the 1994 Crime Act programs and continue its commitment to ongoing initiatives to enhance public safety, prevent violence against women, break the cycle of drug use and crime, encourage innovation in corrections, empower communities to combat crime, assist crime victims, and share information and resources. With an emphasis on better collaboration and coordination, OJP renewed its partnership with its State and local criminal justice constituents to design and implement comprehensive, interdisciplinary crime suppression, prevention, and intervention programs that respond to community needs. OJP also emphasized research and evaluation to inform programming and spending decisionmaking at the Federal, State, and local levels. OJP has worked with State, local, and other Federal agencies to develop major initiatives to get illegal guns out of the hands of criminals; address the problem of youth violence through research and a wide range of prevention and intervention measures; combat violence by criminal gangs; expand the use of community policing in jurisdictions throughout the country; and help make state-of- the-art technology available to law enforcement agencies.