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eGrants - Project Summary (MAKE SURE YOU CLOSE THIS PAGE Page 9 of 19 connections between felony cases and sharing information. Information shared between cooperative agencies frequently solves challenging cases. In 2005 alone, two homicides were solved due to intelligence gathering within the local law enforcement community - one out of Tarrant County which exemplifies this projecYs willingness to assist wherever the need may arise. Continuation Projects: For continuation projects only, if your current or previous year's project is NOT on schedule in accomplishing the stated objectives, briefly describe the major obstacles preventing your organization from successfully reaching the project objectives as stated within your previous grant application. (Data may be calculated on a pro-rated basis depending on how long the current or previous year's project has been operating.) Enter your current grant's progress: Although the initial grant was for an 18 month period, the City of Paris did not receive funding until February 2007; therefore, the felony crimes unit (FCU) began operations 6 months later than originally planned. Last year's funding was delayed as well, but because the program was showing success, the City provided funding during the gap to keep the program in operation until funds were available for reimbursement. Incidents of drug activity, drug transactions, and violent crimes have actually increased simply due to the existence of the FCU because more resources are now devoted to investigating this type of activity. Project Summary: Briefly summarize the entire application, including the project's problem statement, supporting data, goal, target group, activities, and objectives. Be sure that the summary is easy to understand by a person not familiar with your project and that you are confident and comfortable with the information if it were to be released under a public information request. Enter your summary statement for this project: Assaults, sexual assaults, homicides, and narcotic related crimes overburden the limited manpower of Iaw enforcement officers in Lamar County. Local financial resources and manpower are inadequate for effectively carrying out justice and often leads to cases remaining unsolved or un-prosecuted efficiently. Lamar County currently has 2.35 officers per 1000 residents compared to the United States avera9e of 3.00 per 1000 residents. The city of Paris has been ranked among the top 100 most violent crime cities per capita in the United States. Law enforcement in Lamar County continues to deal with extremely high numbers of violent crimes being reported by Lamar County citizens. According to the city data.com crime index, the average crime index in the United States is 282.2. As of the last reported year, the city of Paris had a crime index of 528.7. These numbers alone indicate the probiems that law enforcement in Lamar County face an trying to curtail the violent crimes being committed in Lamar County. This project will strive to decrease the number of violent crimes occurring to Lamar County residents while creating a better quality of life for residents. The target audience for this project is anyone who chooses to commit a violent offense against another person. The project intends to cooperatively investigate the violent felony crimes by utilizing this grant funding in an effort with both the Paris Police Department, Lamar County Sheriff's Office, Lamar County, and the District Attorney's office and other agencies to initiate the reduction in violent criminal activity in Paris and Lamar County. Investiqators wiil make use of every available crime fighting method to ultimately create a proactive crackdown against violent crime. This grant should enable our law enforcement agencies to cooperatively act as a significant deterrent as the target audience of repeat offenders becomes aware of stiffer and swifter penalties. Project Activities Information Introduction The Project Activities section of the application gathers information about the type of activities your project will incorporate. Click on the Save and Continue button at any time to save the information entered on this page. If you do not click on this button and navigate away from the page, your work will be lost. When you click the Save and Continue button, you may receive several error messages that instruct you to complete the required fieids. Your data on any given tab will not save to the system until all required fields are complete and correct. In addition, you have a 2-hour time limit for each tab where you will need to complete the information correctly and then ciick the Save and Continue button. There is a timestamp in the upper-right hand corner of the page that notes when you first clicked on the tab. From that point, you have 2 hours to complete the information on that tab correctly. If you do not compiete the information correctly (for the required fields) and then you click on the Save and Continue button, you will be redirected to the eGrants Home Page. If this happens, your data will not be saved in the system. You may also choose to compose a message on this page for CJD to review. This can be done by typing in the Notes By Grantee / CJD message box. Getting Started On this tab you will notice certain icons that are displayed. •4~= a pencil icon - click on this icon to edit your seledions. X = a pencil icon with a red slash through it - click on this icon to cancel your edits. . X= a red delete icon - click on this icon to delete the item. .0= a diskette icon - click on this icon to save your work. When this icon appears, it is your queue to save the item that you are working on; otherwise, your data will be lost. • CO = an information icon - this help icon is next to certain items that may need further expianation. Simply click and review the information provided in the pop up window. Reserved https://cjdonline.governor.state.tx.us/Project/GrantPri t~.bleSummary.aspx?PrintCode=O&... 8/22/2008 D . . . . . . . _ . . , . . . r. . . . T.._.... .r__.~..~..