Agency Profiles

Roberts County, South Dakota, is a rural county with 1,136 square miles. The county has a population of 10,163, with 38.4% Native American, 56.4% white, and 5.2% other. Sisseton is the county seat with a population of 2,564, and a 24.6% poverty rate. Agency Village, located just outside of Sisseton, has a population of 972,…

The University of Alabama Police Department (UAPD) serves more than 40 law enforcement agencies across Alabama and Mississippi through its Regional Evidence Analysis and Cyber-Intelligence Team (REACT). REACT is an established digital forensics lab that has examined over 2,000 devices in over 1,000 criminal cases since its inception in 2014, with increased demand and examiner…

The Bethel, Alaska Police Department (BPD), with a total staff of 26, is the principal law enforcement agency for the City of Bethel. Bethel is a city of approximately 45 square miles, with a population of just over 6,000. It is surrounded by 50 villages in the 58,000 square miles of the Yukon Delta Region…

The Office of the District Attorney, 5th Judicial District (DA5), prosecutes crimes in the counties of Clear Creek, Summit, Eagle, and Lake in Colorado, west of the Denver-Metro area, serving a largely rural population. Eagle County is ranked in the 26th percentile among US counties for violent crime, exceeding both the Colorado state average and…

The Greenville, Mississippi Police Department (GPD) is the principal law enforcement agency for the City of Greenville. Greenville has a population of approximately 29,000 people and consistently has had a poverty rate of 20% or higher for the past 40 years. The city faces a multitude of systematic issues including concentrations of poverty, substandard housing,…

The Kewanee, Illinois Police Department (KPD) is the primary law enforcement agency for the city of Kewanee, Illinois, serving a population of 12,229. The community has experienced a significant increase in the number of weapons and methamphetamine-related offenses, and incidents involving persons suffering from mental health crises. The calls for service to KPD have also…

The Mifflin County, Pennsylvania Regional Police Department (MCRPD), with a total staff of 15, is the principal law enforcement agency for Burnham Borough, Brown Township, Derry Township, and Union Township within Mifflin County, a rural county located in Central Pennsylvania. National crime statistics reveal that Mifflin County has a violent crime rate of 567 per…

The Vernon County, Wisconsin Sheriff’s Office, with a total staff of 72, is the principal law enforcement agency for Vernon County, serving a population of 31,060. The Vernon County Sheriff’s Office received 94 calls for intimate partner violence in 2022, approximately 7-8 calls per month. Of those perpetrators, 29% were repeat offenders. As in many…

The Webster County, Iowa Sheriff’s Office, with a total staff of 47, is the principal law enforcement agency for the county of Webster, which includes Fort Dodge. The county’s population is approximately 37,000 people and covers 718 square miles in the center of the state. According to the Sheriff’s Office, there are at least 12…

The Armstrong County, Texas, Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) has four sworn officers serving a population of nearly 2,000 individuals. Armstrong County is experiencing an increase in sexual assaults, intimate partner violence, and human trafficking incidents. To address the increase in violent crime, the ACSO seeks to enhance its capacity to handle these types of crimes and…