Project Safe Neighborhoods

As Vice President Mike Pence visits Billings, Montana to focus on the meth epidemic this week, some may ask the question: will his visit make any difference with the drug problem facing this state?

Surrounded by local, state and federal law enforcement officials, U.S. Attorney for Montana Kurt Alme delivered positive news to the media on Wednesday that crime rates are down in Missoula due to the Project Safe Neighborhoods program, instituted a year ago.

Montana's US Attorney Kurt Alme has only been on the job for about a year. But, after being nominated to the job by President Trump, Alme is already hitting the ground running and showing some significant results.

Montana U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme announced at the federal courthouse in Billings Tuesday that murders, aggravated assaults and robberies are down 1 percent from the previous two years, following the implementation of a federal program to reduce violent crime through multi-jurisdictional law enforcement efforts...

Last Thursday, a gathering of law enforcement officials in Missoula laid out the goals and successes of a program called the ‘Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative’ to fight crime in Missoula County.

An impressive group of Montana’s senior law enforcement professionals gathered in the Montana U.S. Attorney’s office in Missoula on Thursday to promote the dramatic results of the ‘Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative’.

The Gazette reports that federal, state and local law enforcement agencies will be stepping up arrests and prosecutions of violent crime, illegal firearms possession and methamphetamine-related drug crimes in Billings, according to U.S. Attorney for the State of Montana Kurt Alme...