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21st Century Policing - The Mott Foundation Returns to Flint, MI
Escalating crime rates and diminishing municipal budgets are motivating police departments across the country to develop new ways of deploying services. The city of Flint, Michigan is no exception. To improve public safety, the city is using a $1,150,000 grant from the C.S. Mott Foundation to reinstitute a community policing strategy—originally developed in the late 1970s in Flint—that relies on neighborhood foot patrols and data-driven crime-fighting.
Flint’s 21st Century Community Policing (CCP) effort—as the new initiative is known—will revive the legacy of community policing and neighborhood foot patrols in the city, incorporating new technologies and police/community partnerships to deliver effective public safety services.
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From MSU News, February 8, 2010 — Michigan State University has launched the nation’s first comprehensive research and training program designed to address product counterfeiting – which the FBI has called “the crime of the 21st century.”
The counterfeiting of products – from pharmaceuticals to food additives to auto parts – accounts for hundreds of billions of dollars in global trade and has a major impact on health and safety, the economy, the environment and national security. Terrorist and other organized crime groups use proceeds from counterfeit goods to support their actions.
But there remains a lack of independent research on counterfeiting activities around the world, as well as evidence-based strategies to combat the crime. That’s where MSU’s Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection Program, or A-CAPPP, will come in, said Jeremy Wilson, program director and associate professor of criminal justice. More >>>
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Forensic Sciences Foundation/National Institute of Justice Research grants have been awarded to forensic science graduate students Melissa Bodnar, Chemistry, “Forensic Analysis of Salvia Divinorum and Related Salvia Species Using Chemometric Procedures”, John McIlroy, Chemistry, “Use of Volatile Organic Compounds to Determine Postmortem Interval”, and Ethan Smith, Biology, “Rhizobial Profiling of Soil for Forensic Applications”.
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The School of Criminal Justice is pleased to introduce an online Master's level certificate program in Conservation Criminology, the interdisciplinary study of environmental crime and risks. The certificate is offered by the School, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, and the Environmental Science and Policy Program.
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