The Effectiveness Of Local Crime Prevention Funding

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done. Those tools include adequate funding for program evaluation, and a structure of federal program funding that permits controlled testing of crime prevention effectiveness.
In order for Congress to learn whether DOJ programs are effective, it must provide a more balanced approach to program funding and evaluation. The latter cannot be accomplished without some small compromise in the principle of State and local control over how most of the federal funding is spent. While this principle may have many merits for the federal support of State and local operations, it is a roadblock to federal production of sound guidance on what works to prevent crime. Exclusively local control of funding conflicts with the scientific principles of controlled field testing, preventing DOJ-funded program evaluations from using "rigorous and scientifically recognized standards and methodologies." A statutory evaluation plan can remove this obstacle by setting aside just ten percent of operational ...

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