Vallejo police receive $1M federal grant to reduce violent crime, improve services

The Vallejo Police Department will soon receive $1 million in federal funding for a gun violence and violent crime prevention program titled Project HOPE, Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, announced.

Project HOPE — which stands for Harm-focused Outreach, Prevention and Engagement — will work to mitigate violence in the city’s neighborhoods most vulnerable to crime, which police note as greater south Vallejo and the Crest neighborhood and surrounding areas.