APA recognizes animal cruelty and fighting not only as precursor crimes to family and interpersonal violent crime, but also violent crime that should be effectively prosecuted. To achieve this end, APA developed a statement of principles regarding the prosecution of animal cruelty crimes and continues to provide a national technical assistance network as well as produce a quarterly newsletter, the Lex Canis.

The Capital Case Litigation Initiative is a Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) national training and technical assistance program that provides support to prosecutors nationwide on implementing improvements throughout the field of capital case litigation.

The nation’s prosecutors maintain a special role within the community to do everything within their constitutional authority to decrease the number of gun-related crimes. APA and its member prosecutors, as community leaders, in partnership with criminal justice partners and the public, are committed to curbing gun violence and illegal gun related crime.

The Association of Prosecuting Attorney’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Project kicked off in January 2020 with a nationwide Human Trafficking Prosecution Summit, hosted in Miami, Florida just ahead of Super Bowl LIV. The summit was open to prosecutors and allied professionals and featured a curriculum of varied and relevant topics such as demand reduction, task force models, illicit massage parlors, and labor trafficking issues. APA continues to work with partners to implement peer-to-peer exchanges, web-based trainin