2023 Virtual Conference

How to Create Your Own ArcGIS Gun Violence Dashboards

English

Christopher Herrmann, Hayley Miller

April 11th, 2023 @ 2 pm Eastern Time

In this 60-minute workshop, we will discuss crime mapping and how dashboards can be used to visualize historical gun violence trends. This improves operational awareness and decision-making for law enforcement, city government, and the greater community. Dashboard Users can identify emerging incident patterns and diagnose trends and response problems. The increased operational awareness helps command staff allocate law enforcement and community planning resources and monitor changes in patterns overtime.

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Professionalizing Yourself & Our Industry with Confidence & Excellence

April 21st, 2023 @ 11 am Eastern Time

Are you ready to lead life as a professional analyst who thrives in career and at home? This workshop focuses on the 4 key pillars needed to be successful in your law enforcement analytical career... and best of all, have the life harmony you've always wanted and deserve. Learn to gain confidence, find self-value, public speak with excellence, and make effective contributions in law enforcement analysis with leadership of self as a top priority. Also, discover ways to rise our entire analytical community by increasing your own professionalism (certification, public speaking, confidence, mentorship, etc.). Join us and transform your quality of life and work. Increase your marketability. Become highly effective, productive, and balanced. Grow your confidence. Feel empowered and create excellent personal leadership in your work and in your home life.

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Creating an Arrest Alert System: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

May 11th, 2023 @ 2 pm Eastern Time

When the Pima County Attorney's Office (PCAO) first created the Crime Strategies Unit, one of the first goals was to implement an Arrest Alert System. After asking for feedback from other prosecutor offices with a similar system in place, PCAO constructed its own system in 2018. I'll explain why the system was created with PCAO and not another agency. I'll also explain some of the technical details, as PCAO used Microsoft Access for their system. I'll go over some of the difficulties that were encountered along the way and how they were solved. Lastly, I'll explore the many ways the Arrest Alert System is utilized, both within PCAO and by various other agencies.

This class is restricted to Law Enforcement only (you MUST register using an agency email address. Personal email addresses will be rejected). 

This class will NOT be recorded.

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Stratified Policing: The Crime Analyst’s Role in Proactive Crime Reduction

May 23rd, 2023 @ 11 am Eastern Time

The presentation will provide an overview of how a midsize law enforcement agency institutionalized the Stratified Policing Model and detail the specific action- and evaluation-oriented analytical products disseminated by the Crime Analyst. Stratified Policing operationalizes problem-solving and evidence-based strategies while emphasizing proactive crime reduction through accountability. The model was developed by Dr. Rachel Santos, an accomplished crime analysis researcher and subject matter expert, and Dr. Roberto Santos, a former commander at the Port St. Lucie Police Department.

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A Structure for Effective Intelligence Analysis In Local Law Enforcement

English

Kyle McFatridge, Marisela Sanchez

July 13th, 20233 @ 10 am Eastern Time

The emergence of Intelligence Units across the country can present a challenge for law enforcement analysts trying to understand their role in their department’s intelligence mission. The Fishers Police Department (FPD) Intel Unit is offering a possible best practice for establishing an effective intelligence-led policing operation that leverages crime and intelligence analytic skills of law enforcement analysts. Conducting criminal intelligence at a local level is not a one-size fits all approach. FPD has 125+ officers that serve a population nearing 100,000 residents; however, there are benefits and applications in this training that will prove to also be helpful for small rural departments, as well as large metropolitan departments. This session will address the very basics of intelligence as a deliberate cognitive technique and its application in law enforcement and the world around us. It provides a detailed look at creating intelligence using critical thinking techniques and leveraging crime analytics to bolster your intelligence process. This training defines how the Intelligence Cycle can be implemented at a local level and identifies clear roles in the process for all members of the PD, particularly the analyst’s role. The FPD Intel Unit employs a threat focused structure to accomplish its’ intel mission by assigning 3 civilian intel analysts to run their own Threat Desk. Analysts are encouraged to use their unique analytic skills and abilities to determine how to best apply tactical and strategic intelligence to accomplish their Threat Desk’s mission. The Threat Desks include Larceny, Public Threat, and Narcotics. These threats were established through the planning and direction of command staff and what is believed to be the most prominent threats facing Fishers that intelligence can be an effective tool to combat. This training will detail each Threat Desk’s mission, the threat streams they monitor, and the sources and processes used to proactively provide Fishers with actionable intelligence on issues such as organized crime, school threats, officer safety, outlaw motorcycle gangs, overdoses, emerging drug trends and more. In addition, this instruction will discuss the methods the Fishers PD Intel Unit uses to communicate its’ intelligence. Oral briefings, intelligence reports, strategic threat assessments, and tactical alerts are some of the ways intelligence is shared at FPD. Examples of these products and the reasoning behind what type of product is chosen will be discussed. A general message from this session will be what the overall objective of intelligence is in law enforcement. This objective is to develop a police force that is as knowledgeable and informed as possible regarding the threats in their areas of operation. The ability to conduct this intelligence is dependent on the ability to effectively collect information. An Intel Unit cannot effectively collect information without “collectors” knowing the intel mission and what information is needed. To that end, this 90-minute training has been conducted several times over the past 6 months, including to the entire Fishers Police Department’s 125+ officers, as well as other analysts, intel officers and command staff from surrounding agencies. This training serves not only as a possible best practice for other agencies, but as part of fulfilling the FPD Intel task of informing as many agencies as possible of the Threat Desks’ intel missions to continue to build a network of national and regional partners with similar focuses.

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The Kik Kreeper Case Study

August 10th, 2023 @ 2 pm Eastern Time

In September 2019, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Richmond (Virginia) received a child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) lead from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The mobile communication apps Snap Chat and Kik had submitted reports to NCMEC of a user involved in possession, manufacturing and distributing CSAM. A subsequent investigation by HSI Richmond uncovered not only CSAM materials downloaded, possessed, and distributed by the user but that he had also engaged in child sexual abuse acts and filmed these acts. This case study will go over the investigative and analytic methods used to bring this child predator to justice.

This class is restricted to Law Enforcement only (you MUST register using an agency email address. Personal email addresses will be rejected). 

This class will NOT be recorded.

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The New Gold Rush: Metro-Based Offenders Target Suburbia 

September 14th, 2023 @ 2 pm Eastern Time

Organized criminal groups are exploiting the vulnerabilities and diversities of Chicago suburbs, targeting luxury goods and services like vehicle dealerships, high-end retail stores, affluent residential areas, hotels and minimally-secured multi-housing units. Crime analysts who support investigative operations, like sworn personnel, struggled to mitigate challenges beyond their control. These limitations included the scope and capabilities of record management databases, the availability of skilled personnel or financial resources, and the ways an analyst can contribute to support administrative and operational goals. Fortunately, analysts are uniquely skilled in working through many of these challenges. In response to spill-over crime from the Chicago-based offenders, suburban analysts identified problems for small and medium-sized agencies and recognized a more cohesive approach was needed to thwart this new "gold rush." In partnership with officers, administrators, Chicago PD and federal agencies, suburban analysts have benefitted from three effective strategies: Advocate for soliciting an analyst's perspective in strategic decision making, cultivate working groups and networks where analysts and county-wide detectives collaborate, and support the expansion of the multi-jurisdictional task forces. The newly formed DuPage M.E.R.I.T. is one such success story. The presentation will also provide case studies of three different crime types regularly affecting suburban agencies: As mentioned, much of the problem stems from organized Chicago-based offenders who habitually exploit suburban economic centers. Gang members have been targeting high-end car dealerships with burglary and vehicle thefts since before 2017. A standing task force led by two suburban agencies has been able to partner with Chicago PD and compile a large amount of resources, including helicopters, to target the entire gang network. Another financial enterprise that is exploited is organized retail theft incidents at large retail stores and malls using offender swarming, offenders selecting specific items, and planned getaways to then resell these stolen goods through social media marketplaces. Catalytic converter thefts are a national problem everyone is facing, but with the sheer number of municipalities in the Chicago area, detective groups and a new task force have banded together to share resources that go after thefts, buyers, and scrappers.

This class is restricted to Law Enforcement only (you MUST register using an agency email address. Personal email addresses will be rejected). 

This class will NOT be recorded.

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