CMPD has received a grant to fund four crime analyst positions for a two-year period. The grant, from the U.S. Department of Justice, is part of the Byrne Competitive Grant Program under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

The crime analysts will support CMPD's primary goal of crime reduction at the neighborhood level. They will provide crime and offender data to the 39 Response Area Commanders who, in turn, will use the information to develop crime reduction strategies and manpower deployment plants. The Response Area Commanders currently do much of this analysis themselves; CMPD estimates that having this work done by crime analysts will give each Response Area Commander an additional five hours per week in the field.