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NCJ Number: 252728 Find in a Library
Title: Building a Culture of Interagency Cooperation: NIJ as Catalyst
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Author(s): Paul A. Haskins
Date Published: May 2019
Annotation: This article reviews the history of how the U.S. Justice Department’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has provided resources to facilitate the sharing of crime-related information among law enforcement agencies nationwide.
Abstract: Details are provided on NIJ’s technical assistance, training, and grant resources that have continued to promote a culture of cooperation among law enforcement agencies at the local, state, and federal levels. Up until just over half of the 1900s, U.S. police departments operated in relative isolation from each other and from federal law enforcement agencies. In the 1970s and 1980s, however, the need for interagency cooperation became evident as new types and patterns of violent crime emerged across jurisdictions. By the later 1970s, a series of brutal sexual serial killings across jurisdictions caused widespread public concern and challenges for law enforcement. This prompted NIJ to support a pioneering FBI initiative that focused on unsolved and cross-jurisdictional sexual serial killers. With NIJ grant awards, the FBI developed scientifically based methods for the criminal profiling of sexual murderers. One outcome was the development of a new data set of serial-killer characteristics derived from crime-scene evidence. In addition to the data-based linking of sexual serial killings, a nationwide spike in missing persons was also occurring, with no known crime scenes. Law enforcement investigative efforts lacked the means and precedents to mine critical, connecting evidence beyond jurisdictional borders, which hampered the linking of case characteristics. NIJ’s commitment to forging a more coordinated and resourceful response to complex, multi-state crimes led to the selection of the FBI as the logical agency for housing and managing a new, computer-based violent-crime data repository and investigative center. This enabled local law enforcement agencies to access shared data on violent crime, along with expert advice and analysis.
Main Term(s): Police policies and procedures
Index Term(s): Interagency cooperation; Investigative techniques; National Institute of Justice (NIJ); NIJ Resources; Regional information sharing systems; Serial murders; Serial rapists
Sponsoring Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Washington, DC 20531
Corporate Author: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
US Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
United States of America
Page Count: 4
Series: NIJ Journal
Format: Article
Type: Historical Overview; Instructional Material; Program/Project Description
Language: English
Country: United States of America
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