The Center for Community Safety (CCS) has the expertise and ability to execute meaningful research and create insightful, actionable analysis of public safety and other data-driven community problems.

• Provide state-of-the-art data analysis
   
• Allow data comparison and cross-utilization
   
• Facilitate community-wide data sharing and dissemination
   
• Increase the actionable impact of research

Our researchers and analysts are skilled in public safety analysis, policy, planning, and research; statistical measures and indicators development and analysis; economic policy research, especially as it relates to productivity measurement and analysis, impact analysis and performance measurement, and program evaluation; and large-scale statistical systems analysis, research, development, and implementation. They are also experts in survey design and data collection, from survey strategy and planning and sample selection to the development of online systems to collect and deliver survey data.