Gang Intelligence Information Sharing

Gangs are bulking up their membership numbers and cementing their control over street-level drug sales; that's a finding of the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment. The report states that gangs continue "to commit criminal activity, recruit new members in urban, suburban, and rural regions across the United States, and develop criminal associations that expand their influence over criminal enterprises."

The Gang Intelligence Information Sharing project, currently managed by the IJIS Institute for the Bureau of Justice Assistance, takes a standards-based approach to gang intelligence information sharing, helping to combat the proliferation of gangs and to support the gathering of criminal intelligence about gangs. The project builds on the work of two organizations within the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) that strive to improve gang data sharing: the Intelligence Working Group's (GIWG) Gang Intelligence Strategy Committee (GISC), and the Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council (CICC).

Current Projects/Efforts

Phase Two
- Extend the functionality of the Gang IEPD and the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative (NSI) to access gang information through a federated search portal. BJA, the IJIS Institute, and IIR have identified four pilot partners:
  - Texas Department of Public Safety
  - Florida Department of Law Enforcement
  - Indiana Intelligence Fusion Center
  - Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
- Work with member company Open Networks to develop service specification packages that conform with the Global Reference Architecture (GRA) and 28 CFR Part 23 considerations

Completed Projects

Phase One

Sponsors (Current and Past Projects)

Accomplishments

Defined a problem statement, identified stakeholders, and identified and prioritized key data elements and information exchanges
Created a Gang IEPD with member company Trusted Federal Systems, Inc. to support gang information sharing between and across law enforcement and justice systems at all jurisdictional levels
Completed testing on the Gang IEPD for technical accuracy and NIEM conformance by the National Information Sharing Standards (NISS) Help Desk

Deliverables

Gang IEPD

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IJIS Institute member companies, including Analysts International and Tetrus Consulting, have played an integral part of the Services Task Team (STT) for the JRA project. The STT committee provides steering support to the JRA Project.

The IJIS Institute, working in collaboration with the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), SEARCH—The Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, and the Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR), has performed project planning and management, and will be developing service specifications that conform to the JRA Service Specification Guideline.

IJIS Institute member company and selected subcontractor, Analysts International, provided critical resources and expertise to the development of the JRA Service Specifications.