Summary: DC Public Safety Radio won the 2015 awards for best podcast and best audio from the National Association of Government Communicators. DC Public Safety Radio and Television won the Government Customer Service Community of Practice (Cgov) 2014 Overall Excellence and Best Use of technology Awards. See conta.cc/1qiBV74 . DC Public Safety Television won two top awards for public affairs television in 2015 from DCTV and three additional first-place awards in 2014 Welcome to “DC Public Safety” – Radio and television shows, blog and transcripts on crime, criminal offenders, and the criminal justice system. For FY 2013 through FY 2015, we recorded 218,700 unique visitors, 633,000 visits and 1,924,300 page views (excluding robot searches). This is radio show 268. The portal site for “DC Public Safety” is http://media.csosa.gov Subscribe to “DC Public Safety” through iTunes. See transcript at http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/transcripts/2016/03/this-is-criminal-an-interview-with-phoebe-judge-and-lauren-spohrer/ “This is Criminal” is a popular, deep-diving, intimate podcast that takes listeners into the thoughts and actions of people caught up in the criminal justice system. Counterfeiters, book thieves, a serial killer, tourists who raid petrified forests for wood, a mother and daughter corner, and the role of animals in crime are all topics for the podcast. We interviewed co-creators Phoebe Judge and Lauren Spohrer. From the Huffington Post: “To be human is to sort things into categories: right and wrong, good and bad, guilty and innocent. “Criminal,” a podcast from Radiotopia and PRX, reminds listeners with every episode that the truth is many shades blurrier than that.” “I hope what we do is put forth an interesting story in as unbiased a way as possible and allow the listener to decide what they think,” she added. “Sitting at the Venn diagram overlap of public radio listeners and “Law & Order” fans, the podcast, in so few words, is about crime. It’s doesn’t rest on the unedited voyeurism of the televised “Cops,” nor does it offer the clear resolution of a fictional courtroom drama like “The Practice.” Instead, “Criminal” covers the human aspect of the many roles — perpetrator, victim, enforcer, witness — that surround a wrongdoing.” See the full article at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/criminal-podcast-true-crime-phoebe-judge_us_56afd185e4b0b8d7c230436f. The website for, “This is Criminal” is available at http://thisiscriminal.com/. Special Announcements: A top priority for the Department of Justice is to invest in scientific research to ensure that the Department is both tough and smart on crime. The Office of Justice Programs’ CrimeSolutions.gov website shapes rigorous research into a central, reliable, and credible resource to inform practitioners and policy makers about what works in criminal justice. A new website lists and evaluates prisoner re-entry programs nationwide. Launched by the Urban Institute, the Council of State Governments, and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Prisoner Reentry Institute, the “What Works Clearinghouse” can be seen at http://nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/what_works. The National Reentry Resource Center is a project of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice. Please see the Center’s website at http://www.nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/. Please see “Federal Interagency Reentry Council Launches Website, Releases Myth-Buster Series” on the front page of the site (see announcements). CSOSA is a member of the Council. Several requesters have asked for national research on reentry. The Office of Justice Program’s National Institute of Justice reentry research portfolio supports the evaluation of innovative reentry programs. To access these studies and NIJ’s entire reentry research portfol[...]
