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Welcome to the Northern District of Indiana’s “Keeping Our Communities Safe” website. “Keeping Our Communities Safe,” a District Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative, is a collaborative effort that groups multiple initiatives (i.e. Project Safe Neighborhoods, Project Safe Childhood, Drug Demand Reduction, Youth Violence Reduction, Weed and Seed, Crime Mapping/Analysis, Identity Theft and more) together under one comprehensive umbrella in order to maximize resources and partnerships to reduce gun, drug, gang and violent crimes throughout the Northern District of Indiana.

Keeping Our Communities Safe involves many partnerships between law enforcement, businesses and civilians that are willing to take a stand and speak out against violence in their neighborhoods. As part of the U.S. Attorney’s Office partnerships, my office works closely with Federal, State and Local law enforcement officials to prosecute cases, develop community outreach programs, promote information sharing, coordinate law enforcement/public safety training and more.

This website will highlight many of the activities that the U.S. Attorney’s Office is involved with on a daily basis. Please feel free to look around and download any information that may be useful. You may find our new Keeping Our Communities Safe Resource Manual to be of interest as well.

Northern District of Indiana U.S. Attorney's Office History

The first United States Attorney to serve while Indiana was still a territory was Elijah Sparks in 1813. His successor, William Hendricks, witnessed Indiana's admission to the Union as the 19th state in 1816. On April 21, 1928 the federal district for the State of Indiana was divided into the Northern and Southern Judicial Districts, resulting in the creation of the Office of the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana. The Northern District of Indiana consists of the northern 32 counties of the State of Indiana. The district has three staffed offices in Hammond, South Bend and Fort Wayne. By contrast, the State of Indiana has 92 prosecuting attorneys located in each county seat.

The Hammond Division covers Lake and Porter Counties. The South Bend Division covers Cass, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaPorte, Marshall, Miami, Pulaski, St. Joseph, Starke and Wabash Counties. The Fort Wayne Division covers Adams, Allen, Blackford, Dekalb, Grant, Huntington, Jay, Lagrange, Noble, Steuben, Wells and Whitley Counties. The Northern District of Indiana also includes the Hammond Division at Lafayette which covers Benton, Carroll, Jasper, Newton, Tippecanoe, Warren and White Counties.

David Capp was appointed United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana on July 20, 2007. Prior to his appointment as United States Attorney, he served as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney since 1991, and as federal prosecutor since 1985.

The Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee

The Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee (LECC) was established on July 21, 1981 in all 94 U.S. Attorney's Office by order of the U.S. Attorney General. The LECC provides a networking focus for law enforcement executives committed to the ideal of cooperation and coordination at all levels of local, state and federal law enforcement. In addition, the LECC has undertaken activities and initiatives to promote crime reduction awareness and prevention programs. Many of them can be found on this site.

The mission of the LECC is to develop coordination, communication and cooperation between local, state and federal law enforcement agencies throughout the Northern District of Indiana by providing education, training and technical assistance to all local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in the District.