Cynthia Lum, Professor and Director, Evidence-Based Crime Policy (CEBCP), Criminology, Law and Society, and Christopher Koper, Associate Professor, Criminology, Law and Society, received funding for: "Application of Evidence-Based Policing to Investigations in the Seattle Police Department."
The purpose of this contract is to provide the Seattle Police Department with an evidence-based assessment of its investigations practices and to make recommendations on improving the alignment of the agency with evidence-based approaches in this area.
Lum and Koper received $121,363 from City of Seattle for this project. Funding began in Jan. 2023 and will end in late Dec. 2023.
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