34 U.S.C. § 60703 — Purpose

(a) Project Safe Neighborhoods Block Grant Program^*. The Program's purpose is to build and strengthen partnerships among federal, state, and local agencies — including the U.S. Attorney in each federal judicial district — along with community groups, victims' advocates, and researchers, to make neighborhoods safer through sustained cuts in violent crime. It does this by: (1) developing and carrying out comprehensive strategic plans to reduce violent crime, including enforcing gun laws, with efforts focused on the specific people or organizations driving up violence in a given area; (2) developing evidence-based, data-driven intervention and prevention programs — including juvenile justice projects — which may include street-level outreach, conflict mediation, providing treatment and social services, and changing community norms, all to reduce violence; and (3) collecting data on outcomes, including the effect on a jurisdiction's violent crime rate, incarceration rate, and recidivism rate.

(b) Additional purpose areas. Beyond subsection (a)'s purpose, the Attorney General may also use funds authorized under this chapter for: (1) competitive, evidence-based programs to reduce gun crime and gang violence; (2) the Edward Byrne criminal justice innovation program; (3) community-based violence prevention initiatives; or (4) education, prevention, intervention, and related activities addressing gang and youth violence.