Students will launch the New Jersey community-safety challenge by examining multiple perspectives, distinguishing evidence from assumptions, defining affected users, and developing inquiry questions that prepare them for later network and matrix analysis.

Students will investigate user perspectives and credible New Jersey evidence, model a fictionalized organized-crime-risk network with matrices, compare that structure with a non-criminal system, and propose an evidence-based direction for a community-safety decision tool.

Students will design a matrix-based resource-allocation tool for a fictionalized New Jersey community-safety scenario, using stakeholder evidence, mathematical criteria, prototype review, and revision.

Students will safely test matrix-based New Jersey community-safety decision tools with anonymized scenarios, collect usability and outcome data, and revise their recommendations using mathematical evidence and stakeholder feedback.

Students will present and reflect on how mathematical modeling, user evidence, testing, and perseverance shaped their New Jersey community-safety decision tools.