Title 34, NavyRelease 119-110

§60703 Purpose

Title 34 › Subtitle VI — Other Crime Control and Law Enforcement Matters › CHAPTER 607 — PROJECT SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM › § 60703

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

Bring federal, state, and local law agencies, U.S. Attorneys, community groups, victims’ advocates, and researchers together to make neighborhoods safer by cutting violent crime. The program has three main goals: make and carry out plans to reduce violent crime (including enforcing gun laws and focusing on people or groups that cause more violence), run proven, data-driven prevention and intervention projects (like juvenile justice work, street outreach, conflict mediation, treatment and social services, and changing community norms), and collect data on results, including violent crime rates, jail rates, and repeat offending. The Attorney General can also use the funds for other things: competitive, evidence-based programs to reduce gun and gang crime; the Edward Byrne criminal justice innovation program; community-based violence prevention; and gang and youth violence education, prevention, and intervention.

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Title 34, §60703

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(a)Project Safe Neighborhoods Block Grant Program

The purpose of the Program is to foster and improve existing partnerships between Federal, State, and local agencies, including the United States Attorney in each Federal judicial district, entities representing members of the community affected by increased violence, victims’ advocates, and researchers to create safer neighborhoods through sustained reductions in violent crimes by—

(1)developing and executing comprehensive strategic plans to reduce violent crimes, including the enforcement of gun laws, and prioritizing efforts focused on identified subsets of individuals or organizations responsible for increasing violence in a particular geographic area;

(2)developing evidence-based and data-driven intervention and prevention initiatives, including juvenile justice projects and activities which may include street-level outreach, conflict mediation, provision of treatment and social services, and the changing of community norms, in order to reduce violence; and

(3)collecting data on outcomes achieved through the Program, including the effect on the violent crime rate, incarceration rate, and recidivism rate of the jurisdiction.

(b)Additional purpose areas

In addition to the purpose described in subsection (a), the Attorney General may use funds authorized under this chapter for any of the following purposes—

(1)competitive and evidence-based programs to reduce gun crime and gang violence;

(2)the Edward Byrne criminal justice innovation program;

(3)community-based violence prevention initiatives; or

(4)gang and youth violence education, prevention and intervention, and related activities.

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Citation

34 U.S.C. § 60703

Title 34, Navy

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110