FY 2026 COPS Office
Community Policing Development: Microgrants Program
Project Proposal
Marysville Violent Crime Response Initiative
Submitted by: Marysville Police Department
Subcategory: Violent Crime Enforcement and Investigations Applicant Type: Rural Local Law Enforcement Agency (self-identified) Requested Amount: $200,000 | Project Period: 24 Months (October 1, 2026 – September 30, 2028) Grants.gov Funding Opportunity Number: O-COPS-2026-172559 Proposal Abstract
The Marysville Police Department (MPD), a rural municipal law enforcement agency with primary law enforcement authority for its jurisdiction, requests $200,000 in FY26 Community Policing Development (CPD) Microgrants funding under the Violent Crime Enforcement and Investigations subcategory.
Marysville carries a violent crime rate of approximately 745 incidents per 100,000 residents — roughly
1.5 times the California rate and nearly double the national rate — with a small, rural patrol force and no specialized response capability of its own.
This 24-month demonstration project, the Marysville Violent Crime Response Initiative, builds a single, integrated violent crime response system across four interdependent components: (1) fleet-wide GPS/AVL vehicle location technology integrated with dispatch to cut response time to violent crime in progress and improve officer safety; (2) the Marysville Connect and Protect Program, which places 25 secure evidence-sharing devices at community partner sites along the city's highest-violence corridors and licenses a mapped platform that gives dispatch a live registry of partner camera coverage, supports realtime scene information to responding units during violent crime in progress, and moves recorded video to investigators in hours rather than days; (3) the creation and equipping of the Marysville Violent Crime Response Unit (MVCRU), a new specialized capability within MPD for armed-subject, barricadedsubject, and high-risk warrant incidents connected to violent offenses; and (4) one MVCRU-dedicated unmanned aerial system providing real-time aerial situational awareness before officers commit to a position.
Components 1 and 2 share a single dispatch map, so that for the first time a Marysville dispatcher handling a violent crime in progress can see both where units are and where partner camera coverage exists at the incident location. Each component addresses a documented gap in a distinct phase of MPD's violent crime response, detect, respond, resolve, and clear, and each generates data that feeds a pre/post evaluation conducted with an independent academic evaluation partner. As a small rural agency, MPD cannot fund this capability from its operating budget or stand up a specialized unit independently. This microgrant will allow MPD to build sustainable, data-driven violent crime response infrastructure and to publish a replication toolkit for the many rural agencies facing the same combination of high violent crime and low specialized capacity.
Statement of the Problem
Marysville is experiencing a high and sustained rate of violent crime relative to comparable jurisdictions, placing significant strain on a small, rural police department. According to comparative FBI UCR/NIBRS-aligned data compiled in the Marysville Police Department's Marysville By the Numbers assessment, Marysville's violent crime rate stands at approximately 745 incidents per 100,000 residents — well above the California average of approximately 511 and the national average of approximately 381 per 100,000. Marysville's violent crime rate also exceeds neighboring Yuba City (approximately 424) and Woodland (approximately 275) by a significant margin, and is comparable to or exceeds that of the much larger city of Chico (approximately 699). Five-year trend data show violent crime in Marysville remaining elevated from 2020 through 2022, with moderate stabilization in 2023, but levels that as of 2024 remain above both state and national averages. Aggravated assault, rather than homicide volume, represents the largest single driver of Marysville's violent crime burden.
This matters for project design. An aggravated-assault-driven violent crime profile is a profile of inprogress calls and short evidentiary windows: the outcome of a Marysville violent crime incident is usually determined in the first minutes, by how fast the closest unit arrives, what the responding officers can see, and whether third-party video is recovered before it is overwritten. MPD's sustained elevation in violent crime has occurred even as the department's response technology, evidence-collection tools, and specialized response capacity have remained largely unchanged, creating a widening gap between community need and MPD's operational capacity — a gap made more acute by Marysville's comparatively small size and staffing base relative to the scale of violent crime it experiences.
Four specific, documented capacity gaps drive this proposal:
• No fleet vehicle location capability. MPD's patrol fleet lacks integrated GPS/AVL tracking.
Dispatch cannot reliably identify the closest available unit during violent crime in progress and instead relies on officers self-reporting position by radio, which delays dispatch decisions at exactly the moment they matter most. The absence of location data also prevents after-action reconstruction of response times and unit deployment during violent crime investigations, meaning MPD currently cannot measure its own response performance.
• No standardized method to capture third-party video evidence. Community members and small business partners along Marysville's highest-violence corridors frequently possess video relevant to violent crime investigations, but MPD lacks a secure, standardized way to collect it. Investigators currently canvass door to door and copy footage manually, a process that consumes investigative hours and routinely loses evidence to short retention cycles on consumer systems before an officer arrives. Just as significant, MPD has no record of where camera coverage exists in the city. Dispatch cannot tell a responding officer whether anything is watching the address they are driving toward, and investigators begin every canvass from zero.
• No specialized high-risk response capability. MPD does not maintain a dedicated unit for the highest-risk violent crime incidents — armed suspects, barricaded subjects, and high-risk warrant service connected to violent offenses. These incidents are currently handled by on-duty patrol officers operating outside their equipment and training profile, or through ad hoc, case-by-case arrangements arranged after an incident is already underway, creating delays precisely when rapid, decisive resolution matters most.
• No aerial situational awareness. MPD has no aerial support capability of any kind. Officers must resolve barricaded-subject and armed-suspect incidents with only ground-level information, entering structures and containment positions without knowing subject location, movement, or whether additional parties are present — increasing risk to officers, suspects, and the public.
These gaps are interconnected and compounding. A rural agency that cannot see where its units are, cannot recover the video that would clear its cases, has no equipped unit for its most dangerous calls, and has no way to see a scene before entering it faces a cumulative disadvantage in preventing, responding to, and investigating violent crime relative to better-resourced agencies. Addressing any one gap in isolation leaves the others as binding constraints, which is why this project addresses all four as a single strategy.
Project Goals and Objectives
Goal: Increase the Marysville Police Department's capacity to prevent, respond to, and investigate violent crime through an integrated, data-driven response strategy, consistent with the COPS Office's common-sense community policing approach and this NOFO's emphasis on evidence-based enforcement models, analytic infrastructure, and measurable reductions in violent crime.
Objective 1 — Faster, better-coordinated response to violent crime in progress Deploy GPS/AVL technology across all 30 patrol vehicles and integrate the location feed with dispatch/CAD operations, so dispatchers route the closest available unit to violent crime calls and supervisors can reconstruct deployment after the fact.
• Targets: 100% of the patrol fleet AVL-equipped and integrated with dispatch by Month 6; a 15% reduction in average dispatch-to-arrival time on Priority 1 violent crime calls by Month 18, measured against a 12-month pre-award baseline; 100% of violent crime call-outs supported by retrievable unit deployment data by Month 12.
Objective 2 — Faster and more complete violent crime evidence collection Launch the Marysville Connect and Protect Program, placing secure evidence-sharing devices at 25 community partner sites, building a mapped registry of partner camera coverage integrated with dispatch, and licensing the secure platform that supports real-time dispatch coordination during incidents in progress and transmits captured video directly to MPD investigators. • Targets: 25 partner sites enrolled, equipped, and under executed MOU by Month 9; mapped partner coverage registry live in dispatch by Month 8, with 100% of enrolled sites geolocated; dispatch queries the coverage map on at least 75% of Priority 1 violent crime calls by Month 12; median time from investigator request to receipt of partner video reduced to 24 hours or less by Month 12 (baseline: 5–7 days via manual canvass); Connect and Protect evidence contributed to at least 40 violent crime investigations over the project period; a measurable increase in the aggravated assault clearance rate against a 12-month pre-award baseline by Month 22.
Objective 3 — A standing specialized capability for high-risk violent crime incidents Establish, equip, train, and place into service the Marysville Violent Crime Response Unit (MVCRU) within MPD, including written activation criteria, deployment policy, and after-action review protocol. • Targets: MVCRU policy, activation criteria, and after-action review protocol adopted by Month 4; a minimum of eight MPD personnel selected, equipped, and certified by Month 6; MVCRU placed in service by Month 7; 100% of qualifying high-risk violent crime call-outs resolved with a trained, properly equipped MVCRU response by Month 12; a documented after-action review completed for every MVCRU deployment.
Objective 4 — Reduced risk during high-risk violent crime call-outs Establish an MVCRU-dedicated aerial situational-awareness capability to provide real-time subject and scene information before officers commit to a position. • Targets: Three MPD personnel FAA Part 107 certified by Month 6; UAS deployed on at least 80% of eligible barricaded-subject and armed-suspect call-outs by Month 12; officer-safety and resolution outcomes documented for every UAS-supported deployment; 100% compliance with FAA and FCC requirements and MPD's adopted UAS policy.
Strategic Framework: One Violent Crime Response System
This project is not a set of equipment purchases. It is a single operational strategy that follows a Marysville violent crime incident through four phases, and each funded component removes the constraint that currently binds one of them.
Incident Phase Current Constraint Project Response
Detect Community partners hold video
MPD cannot reach quickly;
investigators canvass manually.
Connect and Protect devices and secure
platform at 25 partner sites (Component 2).
Respond Dispatch cannot identify the closest
unit, and has no way to know what
camera coverage exists at the
incident address.
Fleet-wide GPS/AVL plus the mapped partner
coverage registry on one dispatch map,
supporting real-time scene information to
responding units (Components 1 and 2).
Resolve No equipped, trained unit for armedsubject, barricade, and high-risk warrant incidents.
MVCRU stood up, equipped, trained, and
placed in service (Component 3).
Resolve safely Officers approach and enter with
ground-level information only.
MVCRU-dedicated UAS providing pre-entry
aerial awareness (Component 4).
Clear Cases stall for want of timely thirdparty video and reconstructable response data.
Connect and Protect evidence plus AVL
deployment data feed investigations and afteraction review (Components 1 and 2).
Because every component produces structured data — AVL response times, Connect and Protect evidence transfers, MVCRU deployment and after-action records, UAS deployment logs — the strategy is self-measuring. That data is the analytic infrastructure this NOFO asks applicants to build, and it is what makes the pre/post evaluation described below possible in an agency that today cannot measure its own violent crime response performance at all.
Project Design and Activities
Component 1: Fleet GPS/AVL Vehicle Location System — $36,000 MPD will equip its full patrol fleet of 30 vehicles with GPS/Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) units at $1,200 per unit. Integrated with dispatch, AVL data will allow dispatchers and supervisors to identify and route the closest available unit to in-progress violent crime calls, improving response time and enabling safer, more coordinated approaches to high-risk incidents — for example, avoiding a single-officer approach to an armed-subject call when a second unit is closer than perceived. Dispatch personnel and patrol supervisors will be trained on AVL-informed dispatch protocols, which MPD will adopt in writing during Months 4–6.
The AVL feed and the Connect and Protect coverage registry described below render on the same dispatch map. A dispatcher handling a violent crime in progress sees unit positions and partner camera coverage at the incident address in one view, which is what makes the real-time coordination described in Component 2 operationally possible rather than a second system a dispatcher would have to remember to check.
AVL data is also a core evaluation data source for this project. It gives MPD, for the first time, an objective record of dispatch-to-arrival intervals and unit deployment on violent crime calls, supporting both after-action review during investigations and the pre/post response-time analysis described in the Evaluation Plan.
Component 2: Marysville Connect and Protect Program — $38,000 MPD will launch the Marysville Connect and Protect Program, placing 25 secure evidence-sharing devices at community partner sites — businesses along Marysville's highest-violence corridors, community centers, faith-based organizations, and multi-family residential properties selected using MPD violent crime incident data.
To be explicit about what this equipment is: the 25 units are fixed-site core sharing devices installed at community partner locations, together with the licensed software platform that secures and transmits the resulting video to MPD investigators. They are not officer body-worn cameras, and no portion of this line item funds body-worn camera equipment, storage, or licensing. Each device captures video at the partner site and, on request or on partner initiation, transmits it through the secure platform directly into MPD's evidence workflow with chain-of-custody metadata intact.
The line item comprises three elements: the 25 core sharing devices; 24 months of secure platform and mapping module licensing, including partner-facing accounts and MPD dispatcher and investigator access; and installation, construction of the geospatial coverage registry, and integration with MPD dispatch/CAD and records systems. Site selection will be data-driven and refreshed annually against violent crime incident mapping so that devices sit where aggravated assaults are actually occurring.
Mapping and Real-Time Dispatch Coordination
Every enrolled site is geolocated and entered into a mapped coverage registry that renders as a layer on the dispatch map alongside the AVL unit positions from Component 1. The registry records site location, approximate field of view and coverage direction, retention period, and the partner's authorized point of contact. It does not provide MPD with a continuous video feed, and MPD does not monitor partner cameras.
During a violent crime in progress, this changes what a dispatcher can do in the first minutes of the call.
On receiving a Priority 1 violent crime call, the dispatcher sees immediately whether partner coverage exists at or adjacent to the incident address and can, with the partner's standing authorization under the executed MOU, request live or just-recorded imagery through the platform. Information drawn from that imagery — suspect description, number of subjects, presence of a weapon, direction of travel, whether the subject is still on scene — is relayed by radio to responding units while they are en route. Officers arrive knowing something about what they are walking into rather than nothing, and supervisors can adjust the approach, staging, or containment before the first unit commits. Where the incident meets MVCRU activation criteria, the same imagery informs the decision to activate and shapes the initial deployment plan.
After the incident, the same map converts the evidence canvass from an untargeted door-to-door effort into a defined list. Investigators know before leaving the station which sites had coverage of the location at the time in question and which retention windows are closing, and they can request that footage through the platform rather than in person.
Safeguards are built into the design and will be addressed in the partner MOU and in MPD policy adopted before the registry goes live: participation is voluntary and a partner may withdraw at any time; MPD receives imagery only on partner-authorized request tied to a specific incident, and every request is logged with the requesting dispatcher or investigator, the incident number, and the justification; there is no continuous monitoring, no persistent access, and no analytic processing of partner video; and retention of received material follows MPD's existing evidence retention policy. These limits are what make the program sustainable as a community partnership rather than a surveillance network, and MPD will document them in the practitioner toolkit so that other agencies replicating the model inherit the safeguards along with the capability.
Operationally, this replaces a manual canvass that today takes investigators five to seven days — often past the retention window of consumer recording systems — with a request-and-receive cycle measured in hours. Where a violent crime investigation extends beyond Marysville, the platform allows MPD investigators to share specific, case-relevant evidence with the Yuba County District Attorney's Office and allied investigating agencies through normal investigative channels, on a case-by-case basis.
Participating partners will receive onboarding training on device operation, the limits of the program, and MPD's evidence-request process, reinforcing the community-law enforcement partnership this NOFO emphasizes.
Component 3: Marysville Violent Crime Response Unit — $50,000 MPD will use grant funds to establish and equip the Marysville Violent Crime Response Unit (MVCRU), a specialized capability that does not currently exist within the department, to safely resolve the highest- risk violent crime incidents facing Marysville: armed-subject encounters, barricaded subjects, and highrisk warrant service connected to violent offenses.
Standing up the unit involves more than equipment. In Months 1–4, MPD will adopt written MVCRU activation criteria, a deployment policy, a use-of-force and reporting framework consistent with department policy and California POST standards, and a mandatory after-action review protocol. In Months 4–6, MPD will competitively select a minimum of eight existing sworn personnel for the unit, issue grant-funded personal protective and tactical equipment, and complete initial certification training.
The unit is placed in service in Month 7.
No grant funds are requested for the salaries or benefits of new officers or deputies. MVCRU will be staffed by existing MPD sworn personnel serving in a collateral-duty assignment, which is what makes the unit sustainable in a department of Marysville's size and what keeps this request within the scope of this NOFO.
Once established, MVCRU equipment will improve the safety and operational effectiveness of unit personnel and, in turn, MPD's ability to safely resolve violent crime incidents that patrol officers alone cannot safely address — replacing an ad hoc, incident-by-incident approach with a standing, trained, properly equipped, and accountable response.
Component 4: MVCRU Unmanned Aerial System — $28,000
MPD will acquire one tactical-grade unmanned aerial system (UAS), dedicated to MVCRU operations, to provide real-time aerial situational awareness during high-risk violent crime call-outs such as barricadedsubject incidents, armed-suspect searches, and pursuit support. Aerial support allows MVCRU personnel to assess subject location and behavior before committing officers to a position, reducing risk to officers, suspects, and uninvolved community members during resolution of violent crime incidents.
Three designated operators will complete FAA Part 107 certification. MPD will adopt a written UAS policy governing authorized deployments, data retention, and privacy safeguards before the system enters service, and all UAS operations will comply with applicable Federal Aviation Administration and Federal Communications Commission requirements. Deployment logs and outcome documentation for every UAS-supported call-out feed the evaluation and the practitioner toolkit.
Note: Because a dedicated Unmanned Aerial Systems subcategory also exists under this NOFO, MPD has proposed the aerial component here as MVCRU-dedicated equipment in direct support of violent crime response, consistent with guidance to select the single most applicable subcategory when a project touches more than one area. The UAS is not proposed as a general-purpose department asset; it is dedicated to MVCRU violent crime operations and its use is governed by MVCRU activation criteria.
Partnerships and Collaboration
MPD will formalize partnerships with the local businesses, community organizations, faith-based institutions, and residential property managers participating in the Connect and Protect Program.
Memoranda of Understanding will be executed with each of the 25 participating community partner sites, addressing device placement, evidence-request procedures, retention, and the scope and limits of information sharing. These MOUs will be submitted to the COPS Office as they are executed.
MPD will coordinate with the Yuba County District Attorney's Office on the evidentiary handling and chain-of-custody standards applied to Connect and Protect material, so that evidence collected through the program is prosecution-ready and contributes to violent crime case outcomes rather than simply increasing evidence volume.
MPD will engage an independent academic evaluation partner from a regional California State University criminal justice program to design and conduct the pre/post evaluation described below. Curricula vitae for the evaluator and for MPD key personnel will be submitted as optional attachments in JustGrants.
Involving an outside evaluator protects the credibility of the findings MPD intends to publish for the field and ensures the deliverables are useful to other agencies rather than self-reported.
MPD will also pursue coordination with the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) consistent with the agency funding priorities in this NOFO, and maintains its cooperative working relationship with federal law enforcement partners.
Rural Community and Priority Considerations
Marysville self-identifies as serving a small and rural community based on its geography, population density, and service area, and requests the additional consideration available to rural applicants under this NOFO. Marysville's circumstance is precisely the one this consideration exists for: a violent crime rate approaching twice the national average, carried by a department without the staffing, technology, or specialized capacity that jurisdictions with comparable violent crime volume typically maintain.
MPD will pursue coordination and participation with the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF), cooperates with federal law enforcement partners consistent with applicable law, and submits accurate race and ethnicity information through the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) — the same reporting stream that produces the violent crime data underlying this application. MPD notes that receiving priority consideration does not guarantee funding and has designed this project to stand on its own programmatic merit.
Organizational Capacity and Project Management
The project will be managed by an MPD command-level project director, supported by the department's records and dispatch supervisor for data collection and an administrative point of contact for financial reporting and JustGrants submissions. Résumés for key personnel will be submitted as optional attachments.
MPD is the primary law enforcement agency for the City of Marysville, holds primary law enforcement jurisdiction within its area of responsibility, and is therefore an eligible applicant under this NOFO. The department maintains existing financial management, procurement, and property-control systems adequate to administer federal funds, tracks equipment in a fixed-asset inventory, and will apply those systems to grant-funded acquisitions.
Because MPD is a small agency, the project is deliberately scoped to be executable by a small team: four components, a defined procurement window, a single evaluation partner, and quarterly internal project reviews at which the project director assesses milestone status and corrects course. Risk is managed by front-loading policy adoption and procurement into Months 1–6, so that any vendor or supply-chain delay surfaces early enough to be absorbed within the 24-month period.
Project Timeline
The project will be implemented over a 24-month period, consistent with the anticipated award start date of October 1, 2026. Activities are mapped to the goals and objectives above.
Project Period Objectives Advanced Milestone Activities Months 1–3 All; Objective 3 policy foundation Award onboarding and financial setup; adopt MVCRU activation criteria, deployment policy, and after-action protocol; adopt UAS policy; execute MOUs with
community partner sites; engage academic evaluation
partner and finalize evaluation design; establish 12-
month pre-award baselines for response time and
clearance rate; procure GPS/AVL units, Connect and
Protect devices and licensing, MVCRU equipment, and
UAS.
Months 4–6 Objectives 1, 2, 3, 4 Install and activate AVL units fleet-wide; integrate AVL feed with dispatch/CAD and train dispatch and
supervisors on AVL-informed protocols; install
Connect and Protect devices at partner sites, geolocate sites and build the coverage registry, integrate the map layer with dispatch, and onboard partners and
dispatchers; select and equip MVCRU personnel and
complete certification training; complete FAA Part 107
certification for three operators.
Months 7–12 All MVCRU placed in service; full operational deployment across all four components; begin continuous
performance data collection; after-action review
following every MVCRU and UAS deployment; first
interim evaluation checkpoint at Month 12.
Months 13–18 All Continue operations; mid-point analysis of responsetime and clearance-rate data against baseline; refresh Connect and Protect site selection against current
violent crime mapping; adjust deployment protocols;
conduct MVCRU and UAS refresher training.
Months 19–22 All Complete data collection; evaluation partner conducts final pre/post analysis; begin drafting project summary report and practitioner toolkit; finalize sustainability commitments in the FY29 municipal budget cycle.
Months 23–24 All Finalize and disseminate deliverables to the COPS Office; submit final programmatic and financial
reports; document lessons learned and transition all
four components to sustained operations.
A standalone project timeline document mapping activities to goals and objectives will be submitted as the required attachment in JustGrants.
Budget Summary
The total request of $200,000 reflects the maximum award amount available under this NOFO. No local match is required. Direct costs total $194,175, with indirect costs applied at a rate of 3% of total direct costs ($5,825), for a total request of $200,000. A detailed budget narrative, including the basis for the indirect cost rate, will be submitted as a supporting attachment in JustGrants, consistent with the FY26 CPD Microgrants Application Resource Guide.
Budget Category Description Amount
Equipment — Vehicle
Location (GPS/AVL)
30 patrol vehicle GPS/AVL units @ $1,200 each, including dispatch/CAD integration
$36,000
Equipment and Software —
Connect and Protect
Program
25 core sharing devices for community partner sites @ $900 each ($22,500); 24-month secure evidence-sharing platform and mapping module licensing, including partner accounts and dispatcher and investigator access ($11,500);
installation, construction of the geospatial coverage registry, and integration with MPD dispatch/CAD and records
systems ($4,000). These are fixed-site community partner sharing devices and licensed software — not officer bodyworn cameras. $38,000
Equipment — Marysville
Violent Crime Response
Unit
Personal protective and tactical equipment for a minimum of eight MVCRU personnel supporting violent crime call-outs (armed-subject, barricaded-subject, and high-risk warrant service)
$50,000
Equipment — MVCRU
Unmanned Aerial System
One tactical-grade UAS platform, controller, spare batteries, and transport case, dedicated to MVCRU violent crime
operations
$28,000
Training MVCRU selection and certification training for a minimum of eight personnel; AVL/dispatch integration training for dispatch and patrol supervisors; FAA Part 107 certification for three UAS operators; Connect and Protect partner
onboarding training; annual refresher training
$20,000
Evaluation Independent academic evaluation partner: evaluation design, baseline construction, interim and final pre/post analysis; data collection and performance tracking support
$14,000
Travel Travel to required COPS Office training and technical assistance events
$4,000
Other — Deliverables Development and dissemination of project summary report and practitioner toolkit for the field
$3,000
Supplies Mounting hardware, storage, and minor incidentals for deployed equipment
$1,175
Budget Category Description Amount
Total Direct Costs $194,175
Indirect Costs Indirect costs at 3% of total direct costs ($194,175) $5,825 TOTAL REQUEST $200,000
All requested equipment and software is proposed as an integral part of the violent crime response strategy described above rather than as standalone purchases, consistent with this NOFO's exclusion of projects that seek technology, software, or equipment without explanation of how it fits a larger crimefighting strategy. No funds are requested for the salaries or benefits of new officers or deputies, for vehicles, food, exercise or recreational equipment, or for promotional items. Grant funds will supplement and not supplant state or local funds otherwise available for these purposes.
Evaluation Plan
MPD will conduct a pre/post evaluation with an independent academic evaluation partner. Baselines for each measure will be constructed in Months 1–3 from the 12 months preceding the award, giving the project a defensible comparison period rather than post-hoc self-assessment. An interim checkpoint occurs at Month 12 and final analysis in Months 19–22, so findings can inform mid-course correction as well as the published deliverables.
Objective Performance Measure Data Source
1 — Response Average and median dispatch-to-arrival
time on Priority 1 violent crime calls, preand post-AVL deployment; percentage of violent crime calls where the closest
available unit was dispatched
CAD records; AVL deployment
data
2 — Evidence Median time from investigator request to
receipt of partner video; number of violent
crime cases in which Connect and Protect
evidence was used and their disposition;
aggravated assault clearance rate pre- and
post-implementation; number of active
partner sites; percentage of Priority 1
violent crime calls on which dispatch
queried the coverage map; number of
incidents in which real-time imagery was
relayed to responding units and
documented effect on the tactical approach
Connect and Protect platform and
request logs; CAD records; MPD
records management system;
NIBRS clearance data
3 — MVCRU Number of MVCRU activations and
deployments; incident resolution outcomes;
officer and subject injury rates on high-risk
call-outs pre- and post-MVCRU;
percentage of qualifying incidents handled
MVCRU after-action reviews;
incident reports; use-of-force
reporting
Objective Performance Measure Data Source
by trained, equipped MVCRU personnel;
time from activation to on-scene readiness
4 — UAS Number of UAS deployments in support of
MVCRU operations; percentage of eligible
call-outs with aerial support; documented
instances where aerial information changed
the tactical approach; officer-safety and
resolution outcomes
UAS deployment logs; MVCRU
after-action reviews
Overall Violent crime incident volume and rate per
100,000 residents over the project period,
contextualized against state and regional
trends
NIBRS submissions; MPD
records management system
MPD acknowledges the limits of a single-site, 24-month design: violent crime volume in a jurisdiction of Marysville's size is subject to year-to-year variation, and the evaluation will therefore treat citywide violent crime rate as contextual rather than as the primary outcome measure. The measures with the strongest internal validity — response time, evidence-transfer time, clearance rate, and deployment outcomes — are the ones directly attributable to funded activities, and those carry the evaluation. Data will be collected internally by MPD records and dispatch systems, analyzed by the evaluation partner, and reported as required in COPS Office performance reporting.
Deliverables
MPD will produce two deliverables for the field, both designed for the COPS Office to publish and disseminate at no expense to MPD:
• A project summary report presenting the pre/post evaluation findings, implementation timeline, budget experience, and candid lessons learned — including what did not work — across all four components.
• A practitioner replication toolkit for small and rural agencies, containing MPD's MVCRU activation criteria and after-action review template, UAS policy, Connect and Protect partner MOU template, site-selection methodology, coverage-registry and dispatch-integration specification, and the request-logging and privacy safeguards adopted for the program, AVL-informed dispatch protocol, and a realistic account of the staffing and cost required to sustain each component after a grant period ends.
MPD will additionally offer a conference presentation or webinar through COPS Office channels if the COPS Office finds the findings useful to the field. The intended audience is the large number of rural agencies facing Marysville's combination of high violent crime and low specialized capacity, for whom a documented, costed, replicable path matters more than another statement that the problem exists.
Sustainability
Following the grant period, MPD will sustain all four components through its general operating budget.
The largest recurring cost is Connect and Protect platform licensing; MPD will incorporate that line into the FY29 municipal budget request during Months 19–22, using the evaluation findings as the justification, so the sustainability decision is made before the award closes rather than after.
Capital items — AVL units, core sharing devices, MVCRU protective equipment, and the UAS platform — will be selected for durability and multi-year service life, entered into MPD's fixed-asset inventory, and placed on a scheduled replacement cycle within the department's equipment budget. MVCRU is staffed as a collateral-duty assignment by existing sworn personnel, so the unit carries no new personnel cost forward, and personnel trained and certified under this project will serve as internal subject matter experts and trainers, allowing MPD to certify future MVCRU and UAS personnel in-house. Community partnerships established under Connect and Protect are expected to persist without additional grant funding, and MPD will continue to add partner sites as local businesses elect to participate.
Compliance and Assurances
• MPD is a local law enforcement agency with primary law enforcement jurisdiction for the City of Marysville and is an eligible applicant under this NOFO. • The City of Marysville and MPD comply with 8 U.S.C. § 1373 and impose no prohibition or restriction on any government entity or official sending to, receiving from, maintaining, or exchanging information regarding citizenship or immigration status with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or any other federal, state, or local government entity. • No grant funds are requested for the salaries or benefits of new local law enforcement officers or deputies.
• All UAS operations will comply with applicable Federal Aviation Administration and Federal Communications Commission regulations, and with MPD's written UAS policy adopted before the system enters service.
• Grant funds will supplement, not supplant, state or local funds otherwise available for these activities.
• MPD submits accurate race and ethnicity information through the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
• All required disclosures and assurances will be completed in JustGrants consistent with the FY26 CPD Microgrants Application Resource Guide.