Accountability
district of montana
The USAO leadership, the Billings and Missoula Police Departments, and Montana State University have worked to develop a violent crime case review process to provide information to the PSN leadership and tactical teams. This process evolved into a matrix to provide objective information to guide criminal investigations. Each local law enforcement agency also provides monthly data to the USAO to ensure as close to real-time violent crime tracking as possible. For the second straight year in Missoula County, murders, robberies, and aggravated assaults decreased as law enforcement continued investigating and prosecuting meth trafficking, firearms offenses, and armed robberies through PSN. Overall, violent crime decreased 25.7 percent, to 246 crimes, since PSN was launched in May 2018, and there were 85 fewer violent crime victims than in the 12 months before PSN began.