| Outstanding Mass Media Campaign |
- The Goodwin Company – for its work as the public relations consultant for the Eastern District of Michigan’s PSN task force.
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| Exemplary Local Training Program |
- Armstrong Atlantic State University Center for Justice Administration – for its commitment to the Southern District of Georgia’s PSN training initiative.
- Dallas Community Prosecution Team – for its program to educate offenders, a group identified by the district as being the most capable of preventing crime.
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| Outstanding Local Prosecutor’s Office |
- State’s Attorney’s Office, 18th Judicial Circuit of Florida – for being a visible, successful partner in the Middle District of Florida since 2002.
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| Outstanding Overall Partnership/Task Force |
- Eastern District of Pennsylvania – for successfully establishing joint federal, state and local task forces in each of the jurisdiction’s nine counties.
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| Outstanding Individual Contribution to a Gun Crime Task Force |
- Paul S. Becker, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Western District of Missouri – for implementing a case screening process that resulted in 341 firearms cases in the district being prosecuted in 2005.
- Stacey D. Haynes, Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of South Carolina – for forging successful partnerships and implementing the district’s PSN initiative.
- Anthony Scott Teal, Special Agent, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives – for serving as the violent crime coordinator in Lexington, Ky., and training thousands of police officers statewide in gun crime investigations.
- Ray Fidone, PSN Operations Director, District of Nebraska – for directing enforcement and intervention strategies for the district’s PSN initiative.
- Detective Lieutenant Keith Campbell, Uintah County (Utah) Sheriff’s Department – for consistent commitment to PSN and for investigating and preparing PSN cases for state and federal prosecution from three counties.
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| Innovative Prevention Strategy |
- Illinois Department of Corrections Parolee Forums – for being the most significant components of the Northern District of Illinois’ gun violence prevention efforts.
- Greater Newark Safer Cities Initiative – for its work in identifying people most likely to be involved in violent crime and providing them with preventative social service support.
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| Outstanding Local Police Department Involvement |
- Memphis Police Department Project Safe Neighborhoods Unit – for forming a special unit to review all firearm-related arrests in the county and assisting other task force members.
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| Outstanding Gun Crime Investigation |
- Operation Flea Collar, Northern District of Alabama – for working with 20 law enforcement agencies in three states on a two-year undercover operation to combat illegal gun sales at flea markets in Alabama.
- The Clarksdale Safe Neighborhoods Task Force, Northern District of Mississippi – for its successful investigation and prosecution of gang members, despite instances of witness intimidation, and for its use of ballistics tracing to solve gang-related shootings.
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