Summary

Strategy 3: Reinvest in strategies that improve public safety.

Identify funding priorities and allocate resources accordingly.

• Prioritize funding for measures needed to ensure effective policy implementation, such as hiring and training staff, upgrading data systems, and expanding services.
• Analyze the impact of policy changes and reinvestments on agencies, courts, and local governments, and provide funding as needed to minimize any negative impact.
• Invest in underfunded areas and other efforts needed to increase public safety.
• Require reinvestments to support implementation of evidence-based practices.

Regularly evaluate how to fund public safety priorities.

• Assess which policy changes require upfront investments.
• Reevaluate funding needs regularly and provide necessary funding levels through annual or biennial appropriations as needed.
• Statutorily tie reinvestment levels to accrued savings or averted costs to ensure public safety priorities are funded.
• Transfer funding allocations between agencies, as needed.

Leverage federal resources to drive innovation.

• Analyze current spending on public safety priorities and identify any gaps in funding.
• Assess how federal funds are currently spent to determine whether funding is directed to public safety priorities.
• Identify opportunities to pursue federally-funded efforts that align with public safety priorities and drive innovation.