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### High Impact Collaboration Between Law Enforcement and Communities: The 2017 L. Anthony Sutin Civic Imagination Award

 September 2017 | Volume 10 | Issue 9

The **L. Anthony Sutin Civic Imagination Award** is an annual honor bestowed upon a collaborative team of law enforcement and community members whose  innovative civic interactions have transformed public safety in their  community. Nominations are now being  accepted through October 23, 2017 for the annual award and will be given to a  team of two or more individuals involved in a high impact collaboration that  may involve a single project or a pattern of transformative projects that best  exemplifies community policing and contributes to violent crime reduction.The ideal nominee team for this award:
          - Creates  sustainable collaborations that are innovative, creative, and transformative;
          - Displays  civic leadership through problem solving and collaborative partnerships;
          - Institutionalizes  sustainable, positive, observable public safety outcomes;
          - Promotes  public safety through dedication to the community policing philosophy; and 
          - Deploys  community policing strategies to contribute to the reduction of violent crime  such as human trafficking, gun crime, drug trafficking, and gang violence,  which can be replicated in similar jurisdictions. 

In 2016, Lt. Tarrick McGuire of the Arlington  (TX) Police Department and Ms. Inelda Acosta of Workman Junior High School  (Arlington Texas) won for collaborating on the Mentoring Arlington Youth (MAY)  Program. The 18-month program began as an idea of Lt. Tarrick McGuire as an  opportunity to serve young African-American and Hispanic male students in the  seventh and eighth grades. Through  interactive workshops on leadership, team building, education and career  development, along with community service-learning modules, the MAY Program  helps to foster relationships between youth and positive adult role models. 

The **2017 L. Anthony Sutin Civic Imagination  Award** will recognize the efforts of collaborative partnerships within the  community. This award will be bestowed upon a team of law enforcement and  community members whose innovative civic interactions have transformed public  safety and contributed to violent crime reduction in their community. Nominees  are those actively engaged with the community in a multifaceted manner that has  been sustained over time and has produced positive, observable public safety outcomes and while contributing to reductions  in violent crime such as human trafficking, gun crime, drug trafficking, and gang violence.

          The L. Anthony Sutin Civic Imagination Award  is named in memory of Tony Sutin, who served as a founder and deputy director  of the COPS Office from its creation in 1994 until 1996. A distinguished  graduate from Harvard Law School and former partner of the law firm Hogan &  Hartson in Washington, D.C., Tony was widely known and respected for his  tremendous commitment to service and community. It is with great admiration and respect for Tony’s many contributions to the COPS Office and dedication to the principles of community policing that the COPS Office names this award in his memory.

To nominate a team or to learn more about the  award, visit L. Anthony  Sutin Civic Imagination Award.   

**Nominations must be sent via e-mail to****SutinAward@usdoj.gov****(ATTN: Sarah Estill) by October 23rd at 5:00 PM EST.**

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