Office of Justice Programs - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Office of Justice Programs Index / Organizations Transcripts Eric Holder ...by the prior administration, our Office of Justice Programs [OJP]. Laurie Robinson was the head o... ...our Office of Justice Programs [ OJP ]. Laurie Robinson was the head of th... ...Laurie Robinson was the head of the OJP . I tasked her with getting out there... Jordan Brooks ...There are tons of things at the Office of Justice Programs and at the Office of Juvenile Justic... Laurie Robinson ...was the longest serving head of the Office of Justice Programs [OJP] at the US Department of Justic... ...of the Office of Justice Programs [ OJP ] at the US Department of Justic... ...arm to come back to my prior job at the Office of Justice Programs as assistant attorney general, becaus... ...billion dollars in funding to come into OJP . And Eric Holder wanted someone h... ...of the three grant-making agencies. The Office of Justice Programs , the Office on Violence Against Women... ...I was most familiar with, having headed OJP . So it was a lot of pretty intens... ...things that concerned me was that, at OJP , I thought it was really critical tha... ...thinking about your experiences heading OJP at that time, and your work on th... ...about your time serving in OJP in the Clinton administration— Oh, i... ...one example. And that is, after I left OJP in the '90s, I always regretted th... ...I wanted to do when I went back to OJP was to start that, and to have it se... ...of Justice [NIJ], which is within OJP . So that's one thing that was on th... ...ways, massively expand the budget of OJP during your tenure, from the beginnin... ...is the statistics and data part of OJP , to devote to research evaluation an... ...you get up to speed when you return to OJP ? How do you get up to speed? Yo... ...who were detailees from other parts of OJP , and Marlene Beckman, who had worke... ...who was in another office within OJP , and so on. I described to them m... ...creating a Science Advisory Board for OJP . And I had asked Eric about that eve... ...helpful in providing counsel to OJP and its bureaus—the Juvenile Justic... ...which was a staff collaboration across OJP of looking to ensure that there was... ...be the rule. And whatever somebody at OJP says is not going to be necessaril... ...to a close during your tenure leading OJP like? [Laughs] Well, I had originall... Show more... Related Topics go to the Healthcare Healthcare go to the Asia Rebalance Asia Rebalance go to the Education Education go to the Black Politics Black Politics go to the Science Science