Criminal Justice Subject Guide: Get Help

"The Sentinel Events Initiative (SEI) is a joint project of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). It seeks to empower local jurisdictions to take an all-stakeholder, non-blaming, forward-looking approach to learning from errors, with the goal of mitigating future risk. SEI assists jurisdictions to build capacity and conduct their own sentinel event reviews to transform bad events into opportunities to address systemic flaws, prevent their recurrence, and earn public trust, thereby increasing safety, lowering costs, and instilling a culture of disclosure."

The Police Foundation's database of near misses by law enforcement officers (LEO).

"The September 2014 National Institute of Justice special report Mending Justice provides an in-depth overview to the sentinel event review approach."

"This report reviews the lessons learned by three teams in their reviews of a negative criminal justice outcome (“sentinel event”) in their jurisdiction."

International Association of Fire Chiefs database of stories about near misses from which to learn.