BALTIMORE, MD (Monday, May 15, 2023) – Today, the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (MONSE) issued a Request for Applications (RFA) for neighborhood associations across Baltimore to participate in the City’s upcoming Neighborhood Policing Plan (NPP) cohort for Fiscal Year 2024.
MONSE has set aside $250,000 through the agency's ARPA allocation for selected neighborhoods to implement individually-tailored public safety strategies in their respective communities.
In alignment with the requirements of the consent decree, MONSE and the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) have committed to working with neighborhoods to create Neighborhood Policing Plans that address the challenges identified by residents in the neighborhoods in which they live. These plans connect residents to City and community-based resources to address both immediate violence in their neighborhoods and quality of life issues including blight, lack of resources in the community, and outstanding requests for City services.
“The Neighborhood Policing Plan initiative is designed for residents to manage safety in partnership with local government and address quality of life issues related to public safety while simultaneously working to repair relationships between law enforcement officers and the communities they serve,” said MONSE Executive Director Shantay Jackson. “We are calling on neighborhoods throughout the city to apply and help us co-produce public safety because we know that the best solutions for a safer Baltimore are informed by the lived experiences of the people who call our city home.”
Neighborhood Policing Plans are currently being piloted in two police districts before being scaled to other locations: in the Western District – in partnership with Fayette Street Outreach (FSO) – and the Southern District – in partnership with the Greater Baybrook Association (GBA). These plans were designed as a direct response to calls by Baltimore residents to have more agency over decision-making impacting public safety in their neighborhoods. Included in the fifth round of MONSE’s ARPA award allocations announced earlier this year, GBA and FSO were awarded a combined $700,000 as part of the initial pilot.
The Scott Administration’s commitment to creating Neighborhood Policing Plans is part of ongoing efforts to bridge distrust between BPD and the community as outlined under Pillar 2 Goal 4.2 of Mayor Scott’s Comprehensive Violence Prevention Plan (CVPP) and BPD’s Community Policing Plan designed to institutionalize community-centered policing practices.
Baltimore-based neighborhood organizations are encouraged to apply by 11:59 p.m. on June 14, 2023, through MONSE’s Grant Portal. Applicants must provide a proposal totaling no more than $250,000 for the NPP program they are interested in accomplishing, demonstrate that they are working in partnership with the community, and have the ability to implement the proposed strategies. Awardees will be announced by July 1, 2023.
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