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04 / 04 / 2023

Breaking through the Media in 2023: Time-Tested and New Strategies to Secure Positive News Coverage

The role news media plays in shaping public perceptions of law enforcement has been significant since the Rodney King incident in 1991; this interest and heavy media scrutiny has only been [...]

04 / 06 / 2023

Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Basic Investigation and Prosecution

Sex trafficking of minors is a real and significant threat in our communities across the United States. Traffickers must be prosecuted and held accountable, and victims must be met with [...]

04 / 11 / 2023

Leadership Out of Your Comfort Zone: Best Practices and Proven Strategies for Success

Quality leadership in law enforcement is arguably more important today than at any other time in modern history. The national narrative and calls for police reform have added complexity to [...]

04 / 12 / 2023

Partner Webinar – Data for Good: Supporting Traumatized Neighborhoods with ShotSpotter Crime Data

Cities are increasingly developing a public health approach to violence prevention. Precision data about where and when gun violence occurs can provide prompt interventions to people in need of services [...]

04 / 13 / 2023

What Police Officers Want: Consulting the Source

Policies and practices in law enforcement are being scrutinized as our communities seek to redefine policing in America. Oftentimes, the men and women actually doing police work are but a [...]

04 / 13 / 2023

The Long-Term Impacts of Non-Fatal Strangulation

Strangulation is a terrifying and terrible crime, with research showing the connection between strangulation and lethal levels of violence. While the conversation around strangulation has focused on response in the [...]

04 / 18 / 2023

Playing Nice in the Sandbox: The Human Elements of Disaster/Emergency Management and Incident Command

In this course, we discuss the human element of leading and working within a disaster/emergency response incident command system. We will discuss how individuals and agencies might collaborate, communicate, [...]

04 / 18 / 2023

Solving the Recruiting Crisis: Tested Tactics to Hone Your Recruiting Efforts

Public safety recruitment and hiring is a significant concern nationwide, with agencies struggling to maintain basic operations due to staffing shortages across public safety. While many agencies are desperately searching [...]

04 / 19 / 2023

Partner Webinar: Recognizing and Investigating Emerging Firearm Crime

Using trained investigators, the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN), ATF e‐Trace and multiple investigative processes, the City of Miami Police Department Crime Gun Intelligence Detail (MPD CGID) continues [...]

04 / 20 / 2023

A Holistic Approach for Agency Wellness: A Spectrum of Options for a Cross-Functional Team

Now, more than ever mental health has been a buzz phrase to promote self-care or external care from mental health professionals with demands from community, law enforcement professionals, and allocated [...]

04 / 20 / 2023

Responding to the Urban Jail in Crisis

The Jackson County Detention Center in Kansas City, Missouri was in a state of emergency in 2015-2017. In-custody deaths, assaults on staff, contraband smuggling, rapes, and federal indictments made local [...]

04 / 25 / 2023

Seattle Police Department’s Evidence Based Approach to Equity, Accountability and Quality

In the wake of an unprecedented call for further reform heard during the summer of 2020, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) is standing up a CompStat-style accountability forum focused on the [...]

05 / 02 / 2023

Investigating Catastrophe Fraud Cases

This webinar will provide an overview of the claim environment during a Catastrophe (CAT) and how unscrupulous claimants, vendors, and others can take advantage of a CAT situation. [...]

05 / 02 / 2023

Decision Making and OODA Loop

While the focus is on tactics such as de-escalation, physical techniques, and new control weapons, little training is applied to the area of decision-making. Criminal justice professionals work in an [...]

05 / 03 / 2023

Partner Webinar: Transitioning to Online Mortgage Foreclosure Sales: A Sheriff’s Perspective

As marketplaces trend more and more towards online purchasing, many sheriff’s offices across the US are exploring virtual alternatives to in-person auctions conducted at the local courthouse, citing the [...]

05 / 04 / 2023

Secrets Don’t Make Friends: How to Ensure You Are Communicating Well With Your Internal Audiences

We often hear about the need to focus outwardly with our communication efforts to ensure we are transparent and build trusting relationships with our communities. But what about our own [...]

05 / 09 / 2023

Communicating with Executives, Supervisors, and Managers: Selling Your Ideas Up the Chain of Command

As contributing members in our organizations, we are commonly placed in a position where we need to communicate an idea or concept to our supervisors which may not be well [...]

05 / 11 / 2023

Preventing Targeted Violence: An Introduction to Threat Assessment

Incidents of targeted violence continue to plague communities across the United States. Since the 2001 September 11th attacks, the US has shifted from a repressive Counter Terrorism approach to one seeking [...]

05 / 16 / 2023

Wellness as a Survival Mechanism: Changing Skills for Changing Times

Stress-management provided us with the tools we needed when we were already stressed, but did not help us to keep from getting stressed. Self-care was introduced to help us prepare [...]

05 / 16 / 2023

Long Work Hours, Shift Schedules and the Impact on Law Enforcement Personnel

This webinar will emphasize how long work hours, and the associated work schedules of officers can affect officers. Long work hours for this purpose will be defined as greater than 12 [...]

05 / 18 / 2023

Assessment of Domestic Violence Injuries

Injuries sustained during domestic violence incidents are an ever-increasing problem for law enforcement. The number of incidents reported to law enforcement increases every year. This increase in domestic violence leads [...]

05 / 23 / 2023

Trauma-Informed Leadership: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

Trauma-informed leadership is the key to building organizations that are productive, resilient, and cohesive. Balancing the needs of employees, clients, and the organization with compassion and skill is not always [...]

05 / 23 / 2023

Building Alliances to Combat Organized Retail Crime

Organized retail crime has grown into a national problem costing businesses millions of dollars and taxing the limited resources of law enforcement. Technology has proven to be a game changer [...]

05 / 25 / 2023

Community Engagement and De-escalation for Animal Service Professionals

Animal service professionals are often the first to arrive at emergencies and have regular contact with the public. De-escalation is not a new concept in policing, but the movement towards [...]

06 / 01 / 2023

Tools to Manage the Stress Response

Everyone has experienced the stress response; whether we get upset during an argument, are involved in a high-speed car chase, or we perceive something to be a threat, our stress [...]

06 / 06 / 2023

Mindfulness for Law Enforcement: Surviving and Thriving in Life and on the Job

During this webinar you will: learn the physical, emotional, and relational impacts of police work learn how Mindfulness can support your management of these impacts be guided through a Mindfulness [...]

06 / 13 / 2023

PIO Lessons Learned During the US Capitol Insurrection

In early 2021, a mob of thousands launched a violent assault on the United States Capitol in an attempt to halt the counting of the electoral ballots. The mob’s sustained [...]

06 / 13 / 2023

The Five Best Ways to Manage Talent

In today’s workforce climate, the conversation in most executive meeting rooms includes how to manage talent within the organization and a list of other priorities. However, managing talent should [...]

06 / 15 / 2023

Intimate Partner Violence and Resultant Concussions in Indigenous Populations

Concussions are a major public health concern in terms of their incidence. The causes of concussion traditionally have included athletics, motor vehicles, and warfare, however, the consequences of physical assault, [...]

06 / 15 / 2023

Building a Culture of Inclusion in Policing: A Case for 30×30

While gender parity is an important point, women officers bring a unique value that solves many of the challenges agencies across the US are facing. Women officers use less force [...]

06 / 20 / 2023

Understanding Homicide and Gun Violence

Most homicide and gun violence is far from random and can be analyzed, understood, and addressed at the local level. This session will set out: The key varieties of homicide [...]

06 / 22 / 2023

Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative: Diminishing Crime, One Community at a Time

Violent crime is on the rise in many jurisdictions, including rural communities. Rural law enforcement agencies are left to tackle these issues, often with a decreasing tax base, personnel shortages, [...]

06 / 22 / 2023

Stand Up for the Animals with a Case you can Stand Behind

Animal protection professionals rely on prosecutors to hold animal cruelty offenders accountable. When veterinarians, law enforcement, animal control officers, and animal care entities put significant resources into an investigation, it [...]

06 / 27 / 2023

What is a Real Time Crime Center and How Do You Start One?

This webinar will go into detail on what a Real Time Crime Center does and how it functions and can be a force multiplier for an agency. We will talk [...]

06 / 28 / 2023

Partner Webinar: Crime Forecasting: Using Resources Appropriately in a Challenging Environment

United States agencies are being pushed to their limit in the wake of understaffing and high crime levels. Many agencies spend too much time and effort producing hotspot analysis reports [...]

06 / 29 / 2023

The Power of Suggestion: What Justice Professionals Need to Know When Questioning Witnesses

Our recollections for events we experience can be influenced by other sources of suggested information. This webinar will provide an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of eyewitness memory, and [...]

07 / 06 / 2023

Preventing Homicide and Gun Violence

There are now powerful, effective, evidence-based approaches to preventing homicide and gun violence. This session will address: Preventing group violence; Preventing violence by individual violent offenders; Preventing intimate partner violence; [...]

07 / 11 / 2023

Mythbusters! The Value of Negative Testimony in Forensics

Unlike what the public is exposed to through the CSI Effect, where results are always obtained in a case using state o the art equipment. The reality within the forensic [...]

07 / 11 / 2023

Situational Awareness 101: An Introduction

We all hear the term and think we know but this class breaks it down in Peter’s copyrighted formula which has been published as well. Did you know there [...]

07 / 13 / 2023

One Size Does Not Fit All: Developing Community-Specific Crisis Response

Over the last decade, there has been an increase in community expectations regarding law enforcement's response to individuals in a behavioral health crisis. With this pressure, many agencies experimented with [...]

07 / 18 / 2023

Take the Stress Out Of Your Money: Life Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

Learn how to manage your finances day to day to remove stress and help you live a better life. You will learn the basics of budgeting, ensure you have the [...]

07 / 20 / 2023

The Real Face of Human Trafficking: How to Identify Human Trafficking in the Field

US law enforcement is often unable to accurately identify and or recognize human trafficking when they encounter it in the field. This is not because law enforcement is lazy or [...]

07 / 25 / 2023

Confident Female Leadership

Women have been told for ages to Lean In, be the Bosslady, to speak up, sit at the table and on and on. But why do we have to be [...]

07 / 27 / 2023

Beyond Checking a Box: Ensuring Your Crisis Response Grows and Thrives within Your Community

After the creation of a community crisis response within your law enforcement agency, how do you manage the programs and balance issues that arise? Is there an appropriate time to [...]

08 / 01 / 2023

Deconfliction: Officer Safety and Investigative Coordination

Deconfliction is an essential component of officer safety to eliminate the possibility of “blue on blue” tragedies. Deconfliction also facilitates information sharing and reduces investigative duplication or overlap, thus avoiding [...]

08 / 08 / 2023

In Custody Deaths: Beyond Case Closed

You’ve had an in-custody death, now what? Between September 2017 and September 2018 the Jackson County Detention Center in Kansas City, Missouri experienced 3 in-custody suicides. This webinar will discuss what is [...]

08 / 08 / 2023

Concussions Caused by Domestic Violence

When many of us hear the word “concussion,” our minds immediately jump to football and sports. This session will explore an under-recognized cause of concussions—domestic violence and other forms [...]

08 / 10 / 2023

Anger Management: An Essential Part of Helping Keep Good People Good

Public safety personnel spend a disproportionate amount of time dealing with anger and the chaos it creates. Unmanaged, it is a destructive force of nature that gets people hurt, has [...]

08 / 10 / 2023

Reimagining Public Safety: Improving Systems We Have while Building Systems that We Need

The Center for Policing Equity believes that centering the voices, lived experiences, and backgrounds of community members – particularly those from Black and brown communities – is one of the primary ways [...]

08 / 15 / 2023

How Effective is Your Feedback? Lessons for Dispatch and Criminal Justice Professionals

Regular feedback is an integral part of highly effective organizations, but the thought of giving it can be uncomfortable or even overwhelming. Knowing the key parts of what makes feedback [...]

08 / 15 / 2023

First Responding Officer Duties in Sex Crimes Investigations

Contact with first responding officers proves critical to the victim’s recovery and the victim’s decision as to whether or not they will move forward in the criminal justice [...]

08 / 17 / 2023

Community Briefing Videos: Ensuring Consistent Crisis Communication before, during, and after a Critical Incident

On March 4, 1991, local Los Angeles news stations broadcasted the Rodney King incident for the first time. Over the next 30 years, our communities have become indoctrinated with the expectation of information [...]

08 / 17 / 2023

How to Investigate Human Trafficking Step by Step

Law enforcement usually only receives the bare minimum of human trafficking training. Most training only concentrates on the “force, fraud coercion” portions of human trafficking but not real-world examples of [...]

08 / 22 / 2023

Management in Community Context: The Critical Next Step in the Threat Assessment Process

The webinar will explore the Adolescent Targeted Violence Prevention Program. The Program, a collaborative effort by Michigan State University’s Department of Psychiatry, Safe and Sound Schools and the National [...]

08 / 24 / 2023

Ask Me Anything: About Traumatic Brain Injury, Strangulation and Domestic Violence

Got questions? We've got answers! During this special webinar presentation, Rachel will briefly recap what we've covered in her previous presentations and then open the floor to take your questions [...]

08 / 29 / 2023

Executive Coaching for Women: Improve Leader Performance

Women are significantly underrepresented in most industries' leadership roles, especially law enforcement and public safety. In considering ways to increase the number of women in leadership roles, research implications identify [...]

08 / 29 / 2023

Getting Back to Center: Realign with Your Mission by Leveraging a Managed Services Provider

Modern organizations contend with a range of challenges well beyond the core purpose to succeed in their primary mission. Overcoming technology hurdles can make all the difference. In this webinar, [...]

08 / 31 / 2023

Making the Pathway Visible: Women Ascending to Leadership Roles in Law Enforcement

Women have felt the frustration of trying to achieve the next level within their careers. The steps in getting to that next level can be murky and exhausting, depending on [...]

09 / 07 / 2023

Investigating Staged Accidents

This course will provide information on how to properly identify all parties involved with the OSAG (Organized Staged Accident Group(s) as well as various search techniques to identify all [...]

09 / 12 / 2023

The Magic Decoder Ring: How Criminal Justice Can Work Better with Therapists and Psychologists in Youth and Family Cases

“Why is this therapist such a bad witness?” “Why is this psychologist refusing to release their paperwork to me?” “Why is this doctor giving me such a hard time?” If [...]

09 / 14 / 2023

A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a State-wide Peer Support Network for First Responders

First Responder Support Team (FRST) Midwest is a non-profit established by First Responders to serve First Responders. The multi-disciplinary board of directors have worked alongside culturally competent mental health professionals [...]

09 / 19 / 2023

The Performance Management Process: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

In this course, we discuss individual employee performance management processes. We will discuss job tasks, creating employees' job performance categories, and setting goals and objectives. We will look at training, [...]

09 / 21 / 2023

Cultivating Wellness in Your Organization: Trauma Informed Leadership and Other Helpful Ideas

Studies have shown that depression and PTSD are up to 5 times more common in first responders and that 85% of first responders have experienced symptoms related to mental health conditions. Most [...]

09 / 21 / 2023

The Victim Interview: Adapting the Forensic Interview Model to Sexually Trafficked Minors

This presentation will assist law enforcement, prosecutors, and forensic interviewers with the tools needed to work with the victim population often found in domestic minor sex trafficking cases. Interviewers often [...]

09 / 26 / 2023

Law Enforcement and Department of Juvenile Justice: Partners in Successful Investigations

This presentation will discuss the roles law enforcement and state Juvenile Justice play in investigating crimes perpetrated by juveniles. North Carolina’s Juvenile Justice Reinvestment Act, AKA “Raise the Age,” [...]

09 / 28 / 2023

Managing as a Coach: Shifting Your Mindset

Managers' and trainers' overall duty is to develop their colleagues and students. Often employee development is wrapped up in what or how. This is due, in large part as the [...]

10 / 05 / 2023

Case Closed! A Case Study of CSI Evidentiary Photography

When conducting a crime scene investigation, responders often are tasked with the development and recovery of latent print evidence. However, one of the most important steps in this examination process [...]

10 / 05 / 2023

The PIO Response to a Hostage Situation: A Case Study of the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue

On January 15th, 2022 an international terrorist entered the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, and took 4 people hostage, including the Rabbi, kicking off an 11-hour standoff with local, state, [...]

10 / 10 / 2023

Burnout and Resilience: What Criminal Justice Professionals Need to Know

Trauma is a given if you work in criminal justice, in suspects, defendants, victims, witnesses, and even colleagues. A better understanding of the effects of trauma and how to mitigate [...]

10 / 10 / 2023

Court Security: Understanding Modern Judicial Needs

Court Security plays an important role in our society and is often viewed differently in different jurisdictions. However, the goals should remain the same. In this class, I break down [...]

10 / 12 / 2023

The National Mobile Property Registry: What Law Enforcement Needs to Know

Mobile phone theft is an ever-increasing issue that goes beyond the initial inconvenience of the loss of the phone. Today's mobile device houses our most private information: from our personal [...]

10 / 17 / 2023

Pocket Pets and Beyond: Investigation and Prosecution of Pet Stores

We will review how to be successful in a prosecution of a pet store in your locality. We will hit the highlights of investigations and the pitfalls which can be [...]

10 / 19 / 2023

Traumatic Brain Injury from Intimate Partner Violence in Pregnant Individuals

The relationship between TBI and intimate partner violence (IPV) is increasingly evident and alarming, as physical abuse often focuses on the head, neck, and face. This symposium highlights the framework [...]

10 / 24 / 2023

Don’t Wait Until Retirement to Live a Good Life

Working in a public safety/justice career can lead to a very difficult and exhausting life, both at work and at home. Too often "I'll enjoy life when I retire" [...]

10 / 26 / 2023

Navigating Negativity: Strategies for Managing Trolls and Online Critics

Social media can be a place for both connection and conflict, and public service organizations are often the target of critical commentary online. While showing up to the virtual conversation [...]

10 / 31 / 2023

Poly-Victimization: Connecting the Dots

Those who experience crime are not a monolith, and many victims of crime can experience multiple types of victimization. A one size fits all approach leaves many victims without [...]

11 / 02 / 2023

Surviving a Social Media Hack

What would you do if your agency’s official social media accounts got hacked? How would you let your community know? How would you get control back? And what can [...]

11 / 02 / 2023

Ask Me Anything: about Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Justice System

This webinar will present an opportunity for justice professionals to interact with a professor, clinician, and trainer who has spent over 20 years working with individuals on the Autism Spectrum. After [...]

11 / 07 / 2023

Executive Communication: Getting Your People to Understand Your Message

As an effective leader and communicator, we need to have our employees understand the intent of our message and why it is important to the organization. We can have the [...]

11 / 09 / 2023

Growing the Leaders You Need for the Future

Does your organization have a weak bench? Have you looked up and down your organization and question where your future leaders are at? Well, great news! They are working for [...]

11 / 14 / 2023

Side Hustles and Second Careers: Reimagining Your Professional Passion after Retirement

If you have set your sights on retirement but aren’t ready to completely stop working, this webinar will cover a myriad of options. First Responders retire earlier compared to [...]

12 / 05 / 2023

Dispatch as Incident Command: Multi-Disciplinary Team Approach

Have you ever seen a successful team that doesn’t practice together? When it comes to significant and/or large-scale incidents the communications team plays an integral role and is [...]

12 / 07 / 2023

Building a Wellness Program from the Ground Up

Wellness programs are appearing more frequently in our public safety organizations. Agencies vary in culture, size, and resources which means implementing a wellness program is not “one size fits all.” [...]

12 / 07 / 2023

Silly Rabbit, Tech isn’t Just for Kids: Older Adults and Technology Use

Older adults are using dating sites, investing, and participating online like never before. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many older adults to seek companionship, restock supplies, and stay in touch [...]

12 / 12 / 2023

Achieving Excellence in Criminal Justice Agencies

In this course, we will examine what excellence entails. We will look at various ways to achieve excellence. We will discuss the importance of striving for excellence. Other [...]

01 / 25 / 2024

In Defense of the Police

In this webinar, we will discuss current cutting-edge issues involving many facets of law enforcement and criminal justice in general. We will examine styles of policing along with their pros [...]

01 / 30 / 2024

Out-of-the-Box ideas for Community Engagement

With law enforcement under intensive scrutiny, community engagement is more important than ever before. That scrutiny, however, also bred distrust of police, so old engagement strategies may no longer be [...]

Sara Micflikier

Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Basic Investigation and Prosecution

Sex trafficking of minors is a real and significant threat in our communities across the United States. Traffickers must be prosecuted and held accountable, and victims must be met with [...]

Jeremy Warnick

Breaking through the Media in 2023: Time-Tested and New Strategies to Secure Positive News Coverage

The role news media plays in shaping public perceptions of law enforcement has been significant since the Rodney King incident in 1991; this interest and heavy media scrutiny has only been [...]

Ray Nash

Body of Lies: Identifying Behavioral Leakages as Indicators of Guilt

The saying, "The mouth can lie, but the body can't" is largely true. During an interview, increased cognitive activity often "leaks" out into a person's body language, behavioral activity, and [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Organizational Stress – From the Frontline Perspective

What is the number one stressor in the workplace? Is it the emotional or physical toll our careers take on us? Is it citizens or clients that demand too much [...]

Pietro “Piero” D’Ingillo

Dave Weiner

The ROAR Response Model: A Roadmap to Crisis Stabilization, Field Dynamics and Decision Making

The ROAR response model minutely dissects facets of field response and is considered a roadmap to de-escalation (crisis stabilization), field dynamics and decision making. It is applicable to field responders, [...]

Robert Burda

Cybercrime Support Network: A Victim Service Resource for Law Enforcement

Cybercrime has become more and more frequent given the largely online lives we’re all leading. Unfortunately, not every law enforcement agency has the training, equipment, or staffing to assist [...]

Ashley Heiberger

Use of Force: Improved Performance through an Evidence-Based Approach

Law drives policy, policy drives training, and training should lead to improved performance. This is the premise for this webinar. And for this transitive law to effectively play out, Ashley [...]

Jill Palmer

BJ Wagner

Healthy Police – Healthy Policing: Addressing the Police Health and Wellness Crisis from a New Perspective

The law enforcement profession is being hounded by issues left and right. In between the use of force and police misconduct incidents, the recruitment and retention challenges, and the decline [...]

Don Redmond

Avoiding Ethical Landmines: Gaining Acceptance of Your UAS Drone Program

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) better known as drones are being adopted by more and more public safety agencies to improve first responder service. But given that it is still a [...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Intergenerational Trauma and the Role of Family Culture

Researches made thus far have revealed that the effects of trauma can be passed down genetically, prenatally, developmentally, and culturally. This presentation will cover the different ways trauma is passed [...]

Harold Holmes

Law Enforcement and Animal Control Joint Responses

The roles of police officers and animal control officers overlap and are bound by a common goal of safety for both people and animals. But these two areas of law [...]

Ed Pallas

Understanding Followership: The Other Side of Leadership

The idea of being a follower may conjure thoughts of sheep being herded, blindly obeying what is being asked of them. However, effective followers are required for there to be [...]

Genevieve Judge

Creating Compelling Mobile Video on the Fly

Utilizing mobile devices to create videos can be an effective yet easily-implementable way to capture and document incidents in real time as well as create compelling messaging for law enforcement. [...]

Joe Smarro

Making Connections to Gain Compliance: Lessons from Law Enforcement Professionals

Getting community members to comply with established laws or specific conduct is one of the goals of first responders to keep order and safety within communities. Leaning into the authority [...]

Gerald Sloan

Tyson Mertlich

Jeffrey Russell

Partner Webinar: From a NIBIN Lead to an Arrest…How do you get there?

The National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) is a database maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) that collects and compares ballistic evidence from firearms-related crimes. [...]

Margaret M. Crowley

Using Conflict to Spark Creativity

Conflict is often seen negatively. As people see conflict as something that must be avoided at all costs, people are rarely equipped with tools on how to resolve conflicts let [...]

Fred Fletcher

Caroline Huffaker

Not Just Feeling Words: How Victim Services Can Lead to Success in Law Enforcement

Victim services and law enforcement are similar in how these two distinct professions tend to apply skill sets or practices that intersect with other professions to be fully effective in [...]

Bobby Kipper

Establishing Organizational Success: Understanding the EAC Factor for Criminal Justice Organizations

What does it take to establish organizational success? According to Bobby Kipper, it takes three components. The EAC factor which stands for expectations, accountability, and consequences help ensure success for [...]

C. Gabrielle Salfati

Crime Scene Analysis Decision Making

There are factors that play critical roles in our decision-making. To become an informed and aware decision-maker, investigators must be mindful of the potential impact of various factors to minimize [...]

Katie Nelson

Kate Kimble

Navigating the Pathway to Public Trust

Various strategies have been developed in the realm of policing when it comes to improving the performance as well as the reputation of the profession. One approach that is being [...]

Wes Dotson

More Case Studies in Criminal Justice Interactions with Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are seven times more likely to have encounters with law enforcement than the general public. The difference in their brain function and inherent characteristics [...]

Brent Richter

Dennis Conroy

Amy Morgan

Why THIS Incident? Why Some Cases Haunt Us More than Others

First responders, public safety, and criminal justice professionals are in fields where bad things are inevitable. How individuals react to these traumatic incidents, however, deeply varies. This session explores the [...]

Mike Cunningham

Jamie Algatt

Partner Webinar: 7 Stellar Ways Tech Changed Criminal Investigations for the Better

Traditional investigative, especially gun crime management systems, are limited. There are too many data points to be collected, organized, and distributed. Learn how to capture everything in one place, organize [...]

Michael Gomez

‘My court date is next week’: How We Can Best Help Traumatized Youth in the Legal Sphere

A trauma-informed approach is highly effective for justice-involved youths who can still change the trajectory of their lives to have better, more positive outcomes. But what does it mean to [...]

Al Cobos

Psychological Safety: Creating a Culture of Trust on Your Team and Organization

Leaders want their organizations to be productive and efficient. Relying on compliance based on authority, however, isn’t the best strategy. More and more leaders are acknowledging the importance of [...]

Steve Beltz

Investigating Vehicle Theft and Car Jacking

Crimes against people tend to be the priority for law enforcement, especially given the limited manpower available these days. However, it is critical for law enforcement agencies to recognize the [...]

Dr. Jeff Fox, PhD

Understanding Public Safety Professionalism

The term professional is being used in different ways in the English language which impacts its scope and limitation. Are those working in public safety considered professionals? What does it [...]

Howard Banks

Ken Clary

Creating a Culture of Inclusiveness: Recruiting a Diverse Workforce

Issues with recruitment and retention brought about by a plethora of factors are fueling the staffing crisis in law enforcement. With a much smaller applicant pool than ever before and [...]

Kathleen Wood

Emily Lewis

Bodies of Evidence: Issues Arising from Search and Seizure of Animal Bodies in Cruelty Investigations

A crime scene is defined as the place where an offense has been committed and forensic evidence may be gathered. With this in mind, the bodies of animals serve as [...]

Marc Hildebrand

How to MASTER your Self-Confidence: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

Do you struggle with self-confidence? Do you have certain areas in your life that you are just not as confident with? Do you wonder how some people seem to be [...]

Gary F. Cornelius

Kevin E. Courtright

Avoiding Offender Manipulation: Safeguarding Your Staff

This webinar is the second part of the Offender Manipulation webinar series. The first session unpacked offender manipulation, what it is, how it is done, its desired outcomes, and the [...]

Elizabeth A. Dunn

Rebecca Morgenstern Brenner

John T. Schultz

Town and Gown: Partnering with Academic Organizations to Leverage Additional Resources

Collaborations in criminal justice and emergency management have been proven to be a force multiplier, especially when the partnerships are with fields that espouse an evidence-based approach. Typically, the fields [...]

C. Gabrielle Salfati

Burnout and the Law Enforcement Exodus Crisis: Causes, Symptoms and Solutions

A perfect storm – that has got to be the best description of what policing has been experiencing facing adversaries across all fronts for the last few years. The crisis existed [...]

Dr. Jeff Fox, PhD

After Incident Analysis: Best Practices and Recommendations

The criminal justice arena is often scrutinized and picked apart when the outcomes of an incident don’t quite meet everyone’s expectations. But the reality is, no one can [...]

Gary F. Cornelius

Kevin E. Courtright

Avoiding Offender Manipulation: Inmate Subculture

Working in the corrections setting means being a target for offender manipulation. Awareness and understanding, however, mitigate the chances of falling prey to these opportunistic individuals. This is the first [...]

Andrew Campbell

‘Someday’ Never Comes: Breaking Generational Cycles of Familial Abuse

The nature vs. nurture debate is one that sparked interest in behavioral communities. In cases of children raised in abusive households, it seems like the odds are not in their [...]

Margaret M. Crowley

The Top 10 Techniques for Dealing with Conflict

One of the things that most people tend to avoid and have problem dealing with is conflict. The reason? A lot of us are not trained how to handle it [...]

Wes Dotson

Ask Me Anything: about Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Criminal Justice System

Dr. Wes Dotson has done numerous Justice Clearinghouse webinars on people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). He provides guidance on their distinctive characteristics and behaviors, how first responders and the [...]

Patrice Andrews

Will Huddler

Don Redmond

Partner Webinar: De-escalation Techniques: How Law Enforcement is Utilizing Technology in Their Tactical Response

In recent years, sharp criticism and scrutiny have occurred on high-profile use-of-force cases by the police. Law enforcement is asked to reimagine police response to reduce the incidents of force [...]

Jonni Redick

I’m Promoted, Now What? Things to Consider from Day 1 to 365

When looking to promote, the role doesn’t always come with a manual. The job description may provide guidelines and requirements which may be too general or vague, but the [...]

Christopher Gandia

Financial Fitness: Live Today and Prepare for Tomorrow

When talking about officer wellness, the resources provided are mainly about mental health and physical health. It is important to understand however that overall wellness goes beyond these two areas [...]

Mickey Osterreicher

Nelly Miles

Michael Parker

Katie Nelson

Frenemies: A PIO Panel Discussion about Rights and Limitations to Record, Report and Official Duties

In a world of 24-hour news cycles and the public demanding information at the soonest possible time, the importance of Public Information Officers in law enforcement is made apparent. This [...]

Madison Charman

Rich Johnston

Testing Focused Deterrence Strategies to Reduce Habitual Interpersonal Violence Recidivism

The evidence-based approach to policing utilizes the scientific method to confirm or disprove how specific actions or interventions can impact the profession’s work. The Barrie Police Service conducted a [...]

Tira Hubbard

Brenda Dietzman

Wendy Rich-Goldschmidt

Women in Leadership – A Discussion about Opportunities, Hurdles, and Benefits

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry presents obstacles that can either prevent you from going further in your career or fuel you to pursue your goals one by one. [...]

Michael Gomez

Intervening with Trauma and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (IDD) in Families

Youth that becomes entangled in the justice system tend to come from two specific groups – those that have experienced some form of trauma or those that may have intellectual and [...]

Sara Breckon

Matt Butler

Are You Missing Critical Data That Could Help Your Investigations?

Investigators are truly some of the most vital assets of the law enforcement profession. Their attention to detail, critical thinking, and methodologies make all the difference in solving crime. However, [...]

Bobby Kipper

Building Performance: Understanding the EAC Factors for Justice Professionals

How three basic words can transform your overall performance and empower individuals to reach their short and long-term goals. Participants will learn that self-expectations, accountability, and consequences are three action [...]

Mandy Nice

Tactical Nutrition Guardrails: Bite-Size Action Steps to Increase On-Shift Energy and Decrease Body Fat

Wellness has been at the forefront of first responders and other helping professions over the past few years. The focus tends to be mental health programs to undo the stress [...]

TJ Nicholls

James J. Emerson

Don’t Get Hacked! How to Build a Security Awareness Program for Your Agency

82% of cybersecurity breaches have a human element to it. Regardless of the firewall and cybersecurity technology implemented, if the workforce is not trained in spotting suspicious attempts, these measures will [...]

Ed Pallas

Buddy to Boss: Going From Supervisor to Superhero

Promotions are rarely a walk in the park. The path to it may be full of obstacles in form of screeners or assessments. And once the coveted spot is attained, [...]

Jonni Redick

Assessment Center and Oral Panel Interview Preparation

It is expected of any person to want to improve one’s self and progress in life. In the professional setting, this looks like training, mastery of skills, and promotion. [...]

Ken Clary

Creating Positive Change: An Approach to Leadership in Tumultuous Times

Making changes isn’t the easiest thing to do as an individual, moreso for organizations. But when the status quo is just so abysmal, change is the only way to [...]

Sammie Wicks

Frank Straub, PhD

Managing High-Risk Adolescents: A Case Study of the Averted Paw Paw High School Shooting and the Southaven Pier Shooting

There are ongoing processes and changes in the adolescent brain that affects their decision-making and propensity to seek pleasure, new experiences, immediate gratification, and take risks with fewer inhibitions. This [...]

Elizabeth “Gizzy” Gray

Advocacy for Firearm Awareness and Risk: Improving the Victim Advocate Response: Having the Conversation (Part 2)

This is the second installment of the Advocacy for Firearm Awareness and Risk (AFAR) webinar series. The first session zeroed in on the impetus behind creating the AFAR training, gun [...]

Rev. Damita Davis-Howard

John Bush

Wayne E. Rawlins

Gerard Tate

Partner Webinar: Using Data in Violence Prevention: What Law Enforcement Needs to Know

By tracking the exact location of gun violence, we gain valuable data that can be used for delivering targeted, non-enforcement-based interventions. These interventions are designed to bring social and economic [...]

Daniel Coble

He said/She Said: When Can Hearsay Come into Court?

Rules of evidence and hearsay tend to be confusing and intimidating that people outside of the legal profession just tend to not want to have anything to do with it. [...]

Sarah Boyd

Combatting Misinformation: What Criminal Justice Agencies Need to Know

We all saw over the last 20 years how access to information through the internet quickly morphed into the proliferation of disinformation. It started with chain letters and spam, which then [...]

Obed Magny

The Impact of Leadership on Organizational Culture and Morale

Given the issues and changes that the policing profession is facing, leaders are now looking for ways to keep their people engaged and satisfied in their jobs. How to achieve [...]

Deborah Johnson

When Things Get Tough: Lessons for Courtroom Testimony

This is the second installment of Deborah Johnson’s webinar series on courtroom testimonies for expert witnesses. The first session looked into preparing for the trial – the importance of soft [...]

Nick Spencer

High Risk Terminations: Policies, Procedures and Planning

Workplace violence is one of the most horrific incidents in society today. Who commits such acts? Agitated individuals who are recently terminated or are displaying high-risk behavior motivated by different [...]

Steven A. Smith Jr.

Philip Smith

Katie Nelson

A PIO Reflection Panel: Experiences, Tips and Lessons Learned

In a fast-paced and highly critical world where information and misinformation spread in a matter of seconds, having a Public Information Officer (PIO) for law enforcement agencies is no longer [...]

Ed Sherman, Psy.D.

Advanced Strategies for Dealing with Challenging Staff Members

This is the third installment of Dr. Ed Sherman’s webinar series. The first part tackled the Leader’s Dilemma and how leaders can balance the interests of employees and [...]

Nicole Fredricks Jackson

Micro-Habits: Navigating the Intersection of Work and Life

We all want to be better off in life – be it physically, emotionally, or professionally. But any improvement entails changes – and this is typically where the difficulty comes in because [...]

Al Cobos

Maslow in the Workplace: Creating Employees Who Contribute and Are Engaged

Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs has been used for decades to understand human requirements and motivations in life. The model can also be utilized to evaluate and subsequently drive performance [...]

Jarrett Morris

Michael Chitwood

Ronald E. Brooks

Partner Webinar: Using RapidDNA during Criminal Investigations

From crime scenes and mass casualties to military field forward ops, Rapid DNA is revolutionizing the once complicated and delayed process of human DNA profiles for identification. From an investigative [...]

Bobby Kipper

Scott Geller, PhD

Actively Caring for People: Seven Principles for Criminal Justice Organizations

With the barrage of issues hounding law enforcement and related justice professions, different approaches utilizing complicated models, advanced skills, and innovations are implemented in response. But at the heart of [...]

Rodger Ruge

Tactical Resilience: Physical Practices for Peak Field Performance (Part 2)

Helping professions are very demanding. Those employed in these fields must be fit in every sense of the word to be hired. Being in these professions, however, subject them to [...]

Elizabeth “Gizzy” Gray

Advocacy for Firearm Awareness and Risk (AFAR): Improving Victim Advocate Response: Rationale and Understanding laws (Part 1)

Victim advocates go through different types of training to be able to provide the most victim-centric and trauma-informed service to the clients they work with. One aspect that isn’t [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Women in Leadership

Men and women are different – but it doesn’t make one better than the other. Each one has strengths that can be harnessed and weaknesses that can be improved. This [...]

Travis Martinez

Addressing Organized Retail Crime with Specialized Police Technology

Organized Retail Crime (ORC) not only impacts the businesses whose merchandise are stolen, but it also increases the costs to customers as businesses try to offset the losses or worse, [...]

Jarriel Jordan, Sr

Megan Price

Michael Delaney

Positive Impact: Connecting and Communicating with Justice Involved Youth

The deeper why to the criminal justice system profession is to maintain peace and public safety, to prevent crime from occurring, and when an individual has already committed an offense – [...]

Wendy A. Dutton

Conducting Forensic Interviews with Children: What Justice Professionals Need to Know

This is the second part of the webinar series on Forensic Interviews with Children. The first installment provided guidance on the types of information to gather that are valuable when [...]

Deborah Johnson

Preparing for Trial: Lessons for Courtroom Testimony

It’s not what you know but how well you’re able to communicate it. This is especially true in depositions and the court setting during testimonies. For individuals who [...]

Christine Johnson

Chief David Roddy

Caroline Huffaker

Frank Straub, PhD

Lessons Learned from the Post-George Floyd and Capitol Protests

2020 is one for the books for law enforcement. In between the pandemic and civil unrest, the other existing organizational challenges, and the regular calls for service, law enforcement was not [...]

Dennis Nayor

Career Survival within the Administrative Ranks of Policing (Part 2)

This is the second part of the webinar series on Career Survival with the Administrative Ranks in Policing. The first installment introduced the components to promote career survival that leaders [...]

Valarie Findlay

Open Source and Social Media Intelligence Strategies for Criminal Justice Professionals (Part 3)

This is the third part of the Justice Clearinghouse webinar series on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT). The first session zeroes in on SOCMINT and its [...]

Jackalyn Rainosek

Pain Comes from Resistance to Change: The Ways to Embrace Change

Change isn’t always easy especially when it isn’t something that we internally decide upon and instead brought about by external forces. Change, however, is also inevitable and something [...]

Dennis Nayor

Career Survival within the Administrative Ranks of Policing (Part 1)

Amidst all the controversies and public scrutiny, a job in the law enforcement profession isn’t as appealing as it used to be. But there still are a handful of [...]

Madison Charman

Randy Fitzgerald

Rich Johnston

Hot and Harm Spots in Barrie: Using the Canadian Crime Severity Index for Effective Deployment

Crimes are not equal. An incident of petty shoplifting does not hold the same weight as an armed robbery or murder would, and yet these statistics are reported as if [...]

Colleen McCollough

Ken Murphy

BJ Wagner

The Fourth 9-1-1 Option: Mental Health Services

Law enforcement has been unofficially managing community mental health issues despite not being the experts in such situations. The City of Austin identified this as an area for improvement and [...]

Richard Bojorquez

Pietro “Piero” D’Ingillo

Dave Weiner

Veteran-Centered Crisis Stabilization and Scene Management Strategies

Around two out five of veterans are suffering from some form of mental health issue. Unfortunately, a culture deeply ingrained within veterans may prevent them from seeking assistance with the [...]

Sheryl Victorian

Police Accountability: Increasing Supervisor Expectations in Identifying and Responding to Slippery Slope Behaviors

In a time where law enforcement actions and decisions are scrutinized in great detail by the public, everyone within the profession is expected to do their share to foster trust [...]

Wendy A. Dutton

Preparing for a Forensic Interview of a Child: What Criminal Justice Professionals Need to Know

Witness and victim interviews are critical in investigations. Challenges however arise when the victim or witness is a child who may not be able to fully articulate what they experienced [...]

Mickey Osterreicher

Michael Parker

Balancing Operational Challenges of Law Enforcement with First Amendment Rights

A picture is worth a thousand words – but a video of a police officer can garner a million views and is on the internet forever. In today’s world, cameras [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Leading at Any Level

True leadership does not rely on titles. It is often observed in day-to-day situations where people step up outside of their roles and serve as informal leaders to ensure successful [...]

Marc Hildebrand

Generating Momentum: How to Create Change in Any Part of Your Life — and Protect It at All Costs!

Looking to make a change but finding yourself not just quite going all in or unable to sustain it? What you just might need to truly make things happen for [...]

Rodger Ruge

Tactical Resilience: Mental Preparedness for Peak Field Performance (Part 1)

An average human being is bound to go through about two traumatic events in a lifetime. But for those working in emergency services and other helping professions, that is increased [...]

Wes Dotson

Case Studies in Integrating Social Skills Instruction into Criminal Justice Interactions

People entangled in the criminal justice system commonly struggle with social skills. With this in mind, it makes sense that those who are assigned to help them navigate the criminal [...]

Obed Magny

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Criminal Justice Professionals

Leaders in the criminal justice field need to be emotionally intelligent, now more than ever. Being a leader who understands and relates to people from various backgrounds and all walks [...]

Madeline Noblett

Kate Kimble

Building Regional Communication Partnerships

Public service agencies are recognizing the importance of a multi-disciplinary and inter-agency approach to critical incident response as well as the significance of public information and communications teams in these [...]

Daniel Coble

Search and Seizure Law and Terry Stops

Every American must know their rights, more importantly, law enforcement must be informed and up to date with this to be able to fulfill their role effectively. In this webinar, [...]

BJ Wagner

Creating a Continuum Ecosystem of Crisis Response: It’s Not ‘Either-Or

Law enforcement by default is tasked with the responsibility of dealing with mental health emergencies on top of the profession’s challenges when it comes to funding, staffing, and other [...]

Nelly Miles

When Your Investigation Becomes an International Crisis: The PIO’s Role During Major Events

Critical incidents, particularly officer use of force and officer-involved shootings, create challenges for law enforcement agencies. But more than the details of the event or the people involved in it, [...]

Halcyon Frank

Leading from All Levels

There is more to leadership than just the title and prestige of the people. In its truest essence, leadership does not require a title but entails selflessness and perseverance to [...]

Valarie Findlay

Open Source Intelligence: Performing OSINT Research and Developing Findings (part 2)

When crimes are committed and criminals are moving in the online space, it only makes sense for law enforcement to likewise move their efforts online. Utilizing the power of Open-Source [...]

Heather Vovak

David Weisburd

Cody Telep

Changing Police Encounters through Procedural Justice Training: A Multi-City Randomized Trial at Crime Hot Spots

There are beliefs that police reform initiatives are antagonistic to crime reduction, a push and pull that has created political friction from different sectors and their respective agendas. This webinar [...]

Justin Erikson

Applying the Core Value Index Mapping for Criminal Justice Agencies

Various approaches have been employed by different law enforcement agencies to rectify the damage of a few but too publicized incidents and rebuild trust within the communities they serve. Most [...]

Michael Gomez

Beyond Self-Care: The CE-CERT model for Secondary Trauma and Burnout

Anyone who has experienced vicarious trauma (VT) or secondary trauma (ST) and burnout, or is helping others with these, know too well the conscious effort it takes to manage let [...]

Dane Sorensen

Carlena Orosco

Michael White

De-Escalation: Strategies, Impacts, and Implications for Criminal Justice

There are lots of attention on de-escalation training for police over the last several years. Like any agency in the US, the Tempe Police Department likewise wants to reap its [...]

Wendy Hummell

Creating a Culture of Wellness – Increase Retention, Morale, and Employee Health by Infusing Wellness into Your Agency

The need to support law enforcement officers’ holistic wellness given the stressful, if not downright traumatic nature of the job, is being recognized by more and more agencies and even [...]

Elizabeth A. Dunn

Rebecca Morgenstern Brenner

John T. Schultz

Extreme Weather Events: What Criminal Justice Professionals Need to Know

Criminal justice professionals are subjected to public scrutiny these days. Despite being overburdened already on any regular day, they are still the ones on the frontlines responding when critical events [...]

Thomas Dworak

Adaptive Leadership: Creating “Sticky” Organizational Culture

Leaders shape the outcomes of the agencies they direct and the job satisfaction of the people they manage. Given the current staffing crisis in the criminal justice profession, the role [...]

Jessica Ellefritz

Partner Webinar: Working at the Speed of Crime: Evidence Screening in Support of NIBIN

Any effective Crime Gun Intelligence Program relies on the expeditious processing of firearms-related evidence to achieve the goal of intelligence lead, firearms-based investigations. The possible intelligence gained through National Integrated [...]

Ray Nash

Word Cues as Truth Clues: Inductive Interviewing for Investigators

Various innovations assist law enforcement in the investigative process today. However, there will always be instances where good old-fashioned detective work and interviewing people is what is required to crack [...]

Miriam Foxx

Reimagining Police Response: Finding Creative Solutions to Address Community Needs

Technology has been an MVP in everyone’s life for the last decade at least. It is no different with public safety and first responder agencies – particularly law enforcement that [...]

Margaret M. Crowley

Crime and Punishment: Exploring Restorative Justice and Peacemaking

Apart from the fact that corrections facilities are over capacity, it is also acknowledged that existing sentencing procedures and outcomes don’t always address the root of the problem. Alternative [...]

Renée J. Mitchell, J.D., Ph.D.

Mental Models: A Method for Attacking any Policing Problem

Numerous programs are being implemented in law enforcement in attempt to combat existing problems that plague the community – some of which achieve the goals they set out, some not quite. [...]

Katie Nelson

Joint Responses to Major Incidents: How Law Enforcement and Other Partners Can Truly Work Together

Given the sheer number and extent of events and incidents that have been transpiring one after another, public safety agencies are trying to come up with ways to be able [...]

Alex Lucero

Megan Price

Authority without Arrest: Resolving Conflict and Gaining Compliance in Campus Policing

Campus police and security services are expected to protect college and university communities. A lot of them, however, have limited authority compared the sworn law enforcement. In the absence of [...]

William "Bill" Loucks Jr

Determining Dealer vs. User in Drug Investigations

Those working in law enforcement deal with all the facets of the drug trade. To be able to be fully effective in the role, law enforcement professionals must be adept [...]

Jonathan Aronie

Travis Taniguchi

Gary Cordner

Active Bystandership: Applications for Criminal Justice Agencies

Issues are inundating the law enforcement profession as it relates to how officers interact who are the members of the community they have sworn to serve. There is much public [...]

Lois James, PhD

Renée J. Mitchell, J.D., Ph.D.

Effectiveness Evaluation of Implicit Bias Training: Research Study Results

Implicit bias training has been integrated into the criminal justice system over at least 6 years in response to tragic incidents that have befallen the profession. Despite the pervasiveness of such [...]

William "Bill" Loucks Jr

Understanding Marijuana Legalization: Changing Law Enforcement Thoughts

There are lots of nuances involved in the legalization of marijuana. Changes are taking place and it only makes sense for us to adapt. People working in the criminal justice [...]

Bobby Kipper

Changing Agency Culture and Climate with Spiritual Wellness

More and more workplaces including the criminal justice field are paying attention to employee wellness. Different initiatives, programs, and services are being made available to the workforce to ensure that [...]

Daniel Donahue

Ransomware Ecosystems and Trends

When we think of law enforcement, the things we often attribute with it are tactical skills, public service, and keeping peace in the community. But at present, with the continuous [...]

Valarie Findlay

Social Media Intelligence: What Is It and How It Can Enhance Intelligence and Research Capabilities (part 1)

Most people now have an online alter ego, aptly called as our “digital selves”. Just having an email address, doing financial transactions online, and subscribing to newsletters or different forms [...]

Halcyon Frank

Building Your Team

Attracting and hiring the right candidates is an uphill battle in today’s job market, especially in emergency communications where small candidate pools were already the norm. From employees working [...]

Jonni Redick

How Women Rise: Breaking and Creating New Habits for Success (Part 2)

This is the second installment of Jonni Redick’s two-part webinar series How Women Rise. The first part looked into perfectionism, people-pleasing, waiting for others to see you, social relationships [...]

Amy Morgan

Suicide Explained: What Leads Someone to that Moment

What drives people to end their lives? Amy Morgan leads the discussion on the factors that lead to suicide ideation, common myths surrounding it, and what can be done to [...]

Thomas Dworak

Lateral-Hire Onboarding: Field Training the Experienced Officer

Law enforcement is struggling with staffing issues. First, the profession is no longer seen as an appealing option for those looking to start a career. Second, a slew of law [...]

Wes Dotson

What Criminal Justice Professionals Need to Understand about Autism Spectrum Disorder

People with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are more likely than the general population to have an involvement with the criminal justice system because of characteristics and behavior distinctive to them [...]

Wendy Hummell

Blueprint for Resilience – How to Reverse Engineer Burnout & Compassion Fatigue

People often compartmentalize the symptoms that they are experiencing into physical, mental, or emotional. What we often miss is the interrelations of these symptoms with one another. Wendy Hummel leads [...]

Michael Daniels

MERCI: How the Maslow-Enhanced Re-entry Capital Index Benefits Re-entry Success

Once an individual becomes involved with the criminal justice system, it becomes the responsibility of the system the provide them with their needs and support so they may be successfully [...]

Jonni Redick

How Women Rise: Breaking and Creating New Habits for Success (Part 1)

In this day and age where equality between genders is highly upheld in society, there is still an apparent gap in terms of the number of women working in the [...]

Jed Stone

Jill Battley

Eldon D. Amoroso

Bonnie Locke

Patrick Doyle

Improving Police Information Sharing on a Global Scale

With the war in Europe, COVID resurging, global crime, and cyber threats, among others, the pressure between states, territories, and geographies of the world is increasing. In this era, we [...]

Michael Gomez

Addressing Problematic Sexual Behaviors (PSBs) in Children and Adolescents

Children and adolescents may exhibit problematic sexual behaviors. When such manifests, it is important to remember that it is not a sexual problem but a behavior issue. Here to unpack [...]

C. Gabrielle Salfati

Offender Profiling and Serial Sexual Offences: The Latest Science

Offender Profiling is a process that aims to narrow down the suspect pool and prioritize the most likely type of perpetrator responsible for the crime. This is one of the [...]

Terry Clark

Katharine Manning

Trauma Mitigation for Police and the Policed

Numerous studies have corroborated the fact that those working in the criminal justice system, public safety, and other helping professions have some of the highest levels of career-related stress. The [...]

Scott Kirshner

Situational Awareness: Closing the Gap between Stimulus and Response

When faced with a violent encounter, situational awareness could mean the difference between life and death. It is a critical element in closing up the gap between stimulus and response. [...]

Bobby Kipper

Performance Driven Thinking for First Responders (Part 2)

This is the second installment of the Performance Driven Thinking webinar series. The first part defined performance-driven thinking and discussed its components, contributing factors, the type of goals, how entitlement [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Recruiting and Retaining Women: Strength through Diversity

Women have a lot to bring to the table. Unfortunately, a lot of women are not given the opportunity to be the best that they can be and flourish in [...]

Lindsay M. Gephardt

An Introduction to Domestic Violence

Domestic violence is complex. There are various dynamics and factors that must be understood to be able to fully comprehend the gravity of this violent crime and how it impacts [...]

Nick Metz

Sara Metz

Bill Walsh

Sammie Wicks

Officer Safety and Wellness in Rapidly Changing Times: What does it look like for officers, their families and agencies?

Events that transpired in the last few years made it evident more than ever the challenges the public safety profession is facing. Forced to adapt in a fast-changing world of [...]

Stephen Barborini

Partner Webinar: Unfinished Firearm Receivers and Privately Made Firearms

This webinar will assist Law Enforcement in identifying, evidentiary procedures, law classifications, NIBIN, and firearm tracing when they encounter unfinished firearm receivers and Privately Made Firearms aka Ghost guns. &[...]

Don Redmond

Pre-Flight Checklist to a UAS Program: It Is Not about the Drones

The benefits of technology for the law enforcement profession have been undeniable In their mission to save lives and maintain public safety. However, technology likewise poses some concerns for the [...]

Jennifer Viets

Matt Butler

Investigations Made Easier with Nlets

Nlets is a truly beneficial resource that may be utilized by law enforcement professionals to aid in the investigative procedure. Unfortunately, not every agency is familiar with the ways that [...]

Bobby Kipper

Performance Driven Thinking for First Responders (Part 1)

Have you ever wanted to achieve something but are not quite sure how to get from point A to point B? Or are you amidst achieving your goals but are [...]

Chris Jones

Leading through Organizational Transformation: Change Management Strategies

Change isn't easy – be it at the individual level and even more for organizations that have multiple moving parts, with complex systems policies and protocols that will be impacted by [...]

Katie Nelson

Social Media Threat Assessments

As people’s lives get more and more intertwined with the digital world, actors with criminal intent are leveraging social media and other online spaces to wreak havoc, threaten communities, [...]

Jessica Simpson

Pets and Evictions: Keeping Families Intact in a Crisis

Thirty to forty million renters across the country are at risk of being evicted from their homes due to the pandemic and resulting unemployment. this means that an estimated 10 to 11 [...]

Robbi Lachenal

Linda Michaels

Michael Stelzen

Partner Webinar: Crime Victim Reporting: Meeting Goals, Mission and Mandates for Advocates and Law Enforcement

Supporting victims of crime is a mission-critical aspect of many entities within the criminal justice system. In many cases, the personnel and divisions mandated to deliver these services are funded [...]

Lois James, PhD

How to Improve Your Sleep Hygiene and Reduce Your Fatigue

Watch the Webinar Trailer From employee assistance programs, office gyms and break rooms, to partnerships with physical and mental health resources and providers, workplaces are now recognizing the [...]

C. Gabrielle Salfati

Linking Serial Sexual Offenses: The Latest Science

Police work is more than just patrolling the streets and catching people committing offenses. They are more complex crimes that require lots of groundwork, investigation, forensic analysis, and pattern recognition [...]

Jon Murad

William Bratton

Cory Haberman

Partner Webinar: What Does Law Enforcement Need to Know about Precision Policing 2.0?

The law enforcement field has gone through massive changes over the last half a century. Various programs, models, and related buzzwords made their way into the profession, all with their [...]

Wendy Hummell

Coach or Critic? Implement Strategies to Overcome Negativity Bias and Limiting Beliefs

Ever felt like you want to achieve something only to feel limited by your own thoughts and beliefs? Don't worry because you're not the only one. You see, humans are [...]

Rhea DuMont

Survivor-Centered Support in Probation: Improving Community Safety

Victims feel violated, powerless, scared, and hopeless after an incident. Unfortunately, they are also often unaware of their rights. Criminal justice players can help victims have better outcomes by upholding [...]

BJ Wagner

John Snook

988 and the Future of Crisis Response: What Criminal Justice Professionals Need to Know (Part 2)

Communities across the nation are participating in an unprecedented effort to transform mental health emergency response. Two years ago, the FCC adopted rules to establish 988 as the new, nationwide, easy-to-remember 3[...]

Thomas Dworak

Emotional Intelligence and Making Better Decisions

We can all agree that decision making can be made more effective if there is some degree of rationality and emotional intelligence employed. Thomas Dworak unpacks emotional intelligence, decision-making, and [...]

Kim Colegrove

Demystifying Meditation and Mindfulness for Criminal Justice Professionals

For a lot of people, meditation is typically seen as a practice linked to eastern religions and beliefs. This notion tends to create hesitancy and fear that practicing it means [...]

Cris Marquardt

Rebecca David

Paul Musack

Tony Abate

Dion McArthur

Support Your Officers on the Street by Leveraging the Nlets Secure Cloud Platform

Learn about Nova, the Nlets Secure Cloud Platform, and how it can be leveraged by your agency or organization for standalone services as well as connected services that utilize the [...]

Amy Morgan

A Trusted Source of Mental Health Resources

When faced with a critical event, an agency will not try to just handle everything on its own. It will call in every possible resource from partner agencies and even [...]

Marc Hildebrand

The Success Equation: The formula to help you master any area of your life FAST!

So many things to do, so little time. We all have goals for different aspects of our lives that it just seems impossible to accomplish all at the same time. [...]

Joseph Young

Courtney Nilan

Travis Taniguchi

Katherine Hoogesteyn

The Public Safety Implications of Ghost Guns

Traditional firearms can be traced using unique identifiers utilized by law enforcement in investigations to be able to make sense of who are the firearm sources and the trigger pullers [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Finding Your True North: Letting Your Purpose Guide Your Career

We may think that we just fall, stumble, and end up where we are right now. But there has to be a rationale behind our intentions, decisions, and actions. What [...]

Rich Martin

Practicing Procedural Justice Internally to Foster its Practice Externally

Law enforcement personnel are stressed and leaving their jobs, and very few are interested in joining it to fill the positions. Meanwhile, the public questions law enforcement’s authority and [...]

Marli Mayon

Working with LGBTQ+ Survivors of Sexual Violence – Part 2

This is the second part of the webinar series on Working with LGBTQ+ Survivors of Sexual Violence. While the first installment provided an understanding of the LGBTQ+ population and LGBTQ+ [...]

Jenn Markey

Martin Hoff

Partner Webinar: A Root of Trust for Seamless and Secure Identities, IDs and Credentials

Trusted identities, credentials, and transactions of employees and citizens are more important now than ever. Hybrid work environments are becoming the norm, financial and personal information-based transactions are happening more [...]

Andrew Campbell

Livin’ on a Prayer: Better Utilizing Places of Worship to Aid Victims of Family Violence

Family violence is a societal issue that requires collaboration between different segments to be fully addressed. As an institution in the community that a sizeable chunk of people refers to [...]

Martin Stark

John T. Schultz

The Investigation and Prosecution of Criminal Vehicular Homicide Cases: The Prosecution Rests (Part 3)

This is the third installment of a three-part webinar series on the Investigation and Prosecution of Criminal Vehicular Homicide Cases. The first course provided guidance and basic concepts to effectively [...]

Sandra K. Antoniak

“Can’t I Just Go Home?” Interview Techniques, Neurodevelopment, and the Twin Specters of False Allegation and False Confession

This course is the third part of a webinar series on issues related to violence perpetrated by children and adolescents. While the previous sessions looked into risk assessment instruments for [...]

Yaneisy Delgado

Partner Webinar: Forensic-Led Policing

More and more agencies are implementing evidence-based, data-driven, and forensic-led policing approaches. The Miami-Dade Police Department is one of those with a more robust Forensic Services Bureau and NIBIN programs [...]

Melissa Reuland

Rob Davis

Jennifer Zeunik

Crisis Intervention Models in Small and Rural Jurisdictions

Police officers and sheriff’s deputies help people in crisis. The crisis though, can be a lot of things, and it includes people going through some sort of mental health [...]

Anna Walton

Lifesaving Dispatch for Animal Welfare Agencies

More than being the middleman that collects information and relays it to the first responders on the field, the role of dispatchers has expanded and now involves actual call resolution [...]

William "Bill" Loucks Jr

The History of Opioids to Current Day Epidemic

The opioid crisis currently plaguing the United States did not just spring out of nowhere and happen overnight. It is a perfect storm brought about by myriad factors including pain [...]

Dr. John W. Newcomer, M.D.

Julie Hiett

Carol Caraballo

Partner Webinar: Mental Health Crisis Response: A Case Study in Reducing Arrests and Coordinating Care

Law enforcement is often placed in the position of responding to individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis, whether a serious mental illness or substance use disorder. Thriving Mind South Florida, [...]

Katie Monroe

Andrea Harrison

Jennifer Thompson

Serving Crime Victims in Post-Conviction Exonerations

People are deprived of their agency, power, and choice when a crime is committed against them. What the justice system provides within its purview is a means to restore this [...]

Eric Scott

Dan Weis

Manuel Gonzales III

Partner Webinar: Creating a Positive Impact: Best Practices for Community Policing

Incidents in the recent past took a toll on the public’s confidence in law enforcement. To address this, agencies all over the US have implemented community policing initiatives to [...]

Dr. Amber Simpler

Partner Webinar: Competency Restoration in Jails: A Versatile Response to the Competency Crisis

Competency refers to the individual’s ability to understand their legal situation, its potential outcomes, and participate in a legal proceeding. Restoration is an effort to uphold justice by providing [...]

Amy Morgan

There’s More To You Than Your Career: Finding Balance and Personal Identity

Who are you know and where do you want to be? Existentialist questions are tough, but these are things that we ought to contemplate on if we want to live [...]

Case Studies in Law Enforcement Encounters with Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders

People with autism are 4 to 5 times more likely than the general population to have an encounter with law enforcement. The reasons lie in the characteristics and behavior distinctive to those [...]

Shawn Williams

Confidence in Training for Law Enforcement Leadership. What is the Missing Element?

The issue of training and its efficacy has been brought up in an attempt to address the use of force issues law enforcement has encountered in the not-so-distant past. This [...]

Bob Troyer

Partner Webinar: Maximizing NIBIN’s Potential in the Courtroom

This webinar will help prosecutors and law enforcement personnel understand how best to use NIBIN evidence in a courtroom. It will cover what NIBIN is and what it isn’t. [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Preparing for Your Second Career from Day 1: Developing an Exit Strategy for a Meaningful Career and a Purposeful Life

Are you at a crossroad in your life? Is the demand of a job in the helping profession making you reconsider your career and life plans? Know that others have [...]

Jonni Redick

Five Things Highly Effective Leaders Can Do During Turbulent Times

Between the riots and civil unrest, use of force incidents, and the pandemic, just to name a few, it’s been a turbulent and crisis-filled ride for law enforcement. While [...]

Ron Mueller

John T. Schultz

The Investigation and Prosecution of Criminal Vehicular Homicide Cases: Forensics is our Friend (Part 2)

This is the second installment of a three-part webinar series on the Investigation and Prosecution of Criminal Vehicular Homicide Cases. While the first course provided guidance and basic concepts to [...]

Jim Martin

Working Together: Health Services and Custody Fostering Better Relationships

In a machine, each part has its specific functions so things run smoothly. In the corrections setting, custody officials and health staff provide inmates with the immediate services they need [...]

Dr. Hirsh Handmaker

Hilary Weinberg

Domestic Violence Traumatic Brain Injuries: What Did We Learn from the COVID Pandemic?

Incidents of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in intimate partner violence (IPV) victims can be traced back to the last 50 years. There hasn’t been enough attention given to this issue [...]

Joe Smarro

Lessons on Compassionate Policing from Joe Smarro of the HBO documentary ERNIE & JOE: CRISIS COPS

Compassionate policing is a mindset and culture that must be adopted across law enforcement agencies to be fully effective in the community. Not only does it provide community members with [...]

Michael Levin

Creating Powerful, Positive Sustainable Change

Change is always easier said than done. And more often than not, when change is implemented, it isn’t always done in an approach that makes the most sense for [...]

Judge Brandon Birmingham

Enucleated: A Case Study of Charles Albright, the Eyeball Killer

Three dead bodies were discovered in three separate incidents between December 1990 to March 1991 in Dallas. They were all women who worked as prostitutes and their eyes all found to be [...]

Marli Mayon

Working with LGBTQ+ Survivors of Sexual Violence – Part 1

Understanding the dynamics of sexual violence is complex as it is. When the nuances related to gender identities, gender expression, and sexual orientation are taken into account, it becomes even [...]

Shannon Scully

John Snook

988 and the Future of Crisis Response: What Criminal Justice Professionals Need to Know

In 2020, Congress the Federal Communications Commission made 988 the universal three-digit dialing code for mental health crisis in the United States. It is an expansion of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline’[...]

Daniel Mullins

Gary Steiner

Partner Webinar: Addressing Consent Decree Challenges with EHR and Analytics

This webinar will present concepts for using modern technology within custody environments to address unique challenges presented by consent decrees and court mandates. This information is relevant to all types [...]

Thomas Dworak

CHAOS: Using Emotional Intelligence to Reduce Uncertainty

Our lives and the world in general tend to be full of uncertainty. The uncertainty is ultimately beyond our control but there is something we can control in such instances – [...]

Dave McClure

Jeremy Barnum

Preparing for Autonomous Vehicles

The idea of autonomous vehicles (AVs) may seem like some futuristic utopia you only see in TV or movies. But actually, we are slowly transitioning into a society where AVs [...]

Todd Wagner

Chad Sullivan

Jennifer DeLett-Snyder, M.S.

Partner Webinar: Digitizing the Handle with Care Process

At least 60% of American children have been exposed to violent crime or abuse and 40% were direct victims of two or more violent acts. Exposure to such have effects that can [...]

Natalie Hipple

Mark Kraft

Kerry Yerico

Gun Violence Reduction: Solutions, Tools and Trends

Agencies across the world have been trying for some time now to address the issue of crime gun violence. It is easier said than done, especially back when the technology [...]

Jennifer Toussaint

Active Listening and Basic De-escalation for the Animal Welfare and Control Professional

As humans, we have some faults and misses when it comes to communicating. It can be in the form of listening to respond instead of understanding, injecting ourselves and our [...]

Bobby Kipper

Scott Geller, PhD

Actively Caring for People: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

Different approaches to policing are being introduced and implemented – some require complicated models, technical skills, and some of the most cutting-edge technology. However, it is typically the foundational concepts that [...]

Chris Jones

Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to Become a Better Leader

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a widely used personality assessment used all over the world. In the professional setting, familiarity with the MBTI can help boost individual and team [...]

Andrew Campbell

The Road Less Traveled: Family Violence in Rural Communities

The rural community setting – isolated homes, lack of or hard-to-reach community resources, and community members knowing each other – may create a greater risk of family violence. Given these characteristics, a [...]

Kevin Morison

Re-imagining Police Academy Training

A lot is changing in policing, but the training methods and curriculum doesn’t seem to be keeping pace with the changes in the profession. The Police Executive Research Forum ([...]

Patrick Doyle

Robert Turner

The Law Enforcement Digital Evidence Lifecycle: From Intake to Expungement

Our every move now has some form of digital footprint – be it an image, video, or geolocation. The existence of digital evidence can make law enforcement work easier. It’s [...]

John T. Schultz

The Investigation and Prosecution of Criminal Vehicular Homicide Cases: On-Scene Investigation (Part 1)

In 2019 in Florida alone, more than 3,000 individuals were killed in traffic crashes, compared to just 600+ who are murdered. With this in mind, it is more likely that our community members [...]

Partner Webinar: Deploying Smartphones as Body Cameras: A Cost-Effective, All-In-One Solution

The need for body cameras continues to grow all across the country, but some traditional systems are prohibitively expensive. Visual Labs will show how an Android smartphone can be deployed [...]

Katie Nelson

Hearing Headlines: How You Get to the Meat of the Story

A lot has changed in terms of how people consume information and remain up to date with current events. From waiting to watch the news at a fixed time of [...]

Wendy Hummell

Brenda Dietzman

Resiliency for Women

It entails a high level of resilience to work in helping professions. This is especially true for women who must constantly be present for the people they serve at work [...]

Vaughn Baker

Introduction to Behavioral Assessments: Preventing Workplace Violence

Violence in schools, workplaces, and other integral organizations costs a lot. From the equipment and infrastructure that is damaged, the business operations that must stop to give way to investigations, [...]

Jonni Redick

Five Ways to Survive Promotional Preparation

If you’ve ever sought to get promoted, you probably know the feeling that comes with preparing for it – the sense of not knowing what you’ll be facing come [...]

Kim Colegrove

Facing the Mental and Emotional Impact of this Work: 3 Steps Justice Professionals and Spouses Can Take Today

Helping professions like law enforcement, dispatchers, EMTs, and firefighters are subjected to some of the most dreadful aspects of a community. All the horrors they’ve witnessed, listened to, or [...]

Shannon Denard

Building a Bridge of Trust, Confidence and Cooperation: Multiple Brain Integration for Law Enforcement and Community Interaction

To “Protect and Serve” requires “Trust and Cooperation.” Law Enforcement utilizes police academy training on every call but not every community call results in law enforcement to community relationship cooperation. [...]

Jesse Loomis

Partner Webinar: Virtual Sheriff’s Sales: Fact & Fiction

More and more public sector entities are leveraging technology and innovations especially after the pandemic posed limitations on how we interact. Auctioning foreclosed property used to be done in the [...]

Matthew Barter

Amanda Burstein

Melissa Reuland

Metric Development and Data Collection with Community Partners

With the public scrutiny that the law enforcement profession has been subjected to, agencies have been working hard to demonstrate their effectiveness in addressing the challenges that they face daily. [...]

C. Gabrielle Salfati

Burnout in Law Enforcement and First Responders: Building Resilience & Reclaiming Your Energy

Mental illness issues are much higher in first responders than in civilians. Deterioration of mental health is observed in criminal justice and public safety professionals during their time of service [...]

Partner Webinar: Good News or Bad News – The New FCC Rulemaking on Inmate Calling Services, Rates and Revenue-Share

The FCC’s most recent rulemaking regarding Inmate Calling Services (‘ICS’) was finalized on August 1st, 2021. This new rulemaking brings several important changes in how Inmate Telephone Providers can [...]

Jim Martin

Ahead of the Curve: How Facilities Managed during the COVID-19 Pandemic

We’ve been traversing the COVID-19 world for almost two years now and it has changed a lot of things in the world. When the pandemic first struck, everyone was [...]

Kerry Mensior

Ninja Communication Skills: Using Personality Science to Build Trust and Make Connections

Have you ever found yourself dealing with a situation that was emotionally charged and where everyone there viewed you with mistrust and sometimes even hatred? What about when someone you [...]

Richard Samuels

Michelle Welch

Investigating and Prosecuting Animal Crimes in Small, Rural and Tribal Communities (Part 2)

Animal cruelty cases are complex. Mainly because not everyone in the criminal justice system is as versed with animal law, and handling animals poses real physical dangers to anyone responding [...]

Grant McDougall

Under Siege: The Psychological Impact on Law Enforcement in These Troubled Times

The law enforcement profession is demanding to say the least. In a career where one is deployed to some of the most dangerous and daunting situations, it requires those who [...]

Chris Jones

Lethality Assessments for Domestic Violence: A Look at How a Simple Questionnaire Could Save Lives

Domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) are quite problematic. There’s the relationship between the victim and the abuser which makes the victim reluctant to report. The justice [...]

Jackson Gillet

Partner Webinar: Incident Coordination in the Tech Age: Using Active911 to Enhance Your Incident Response

Are you using software services? Are they helping reduce response times and increase efficiencies for calls? We live in a technology-driven world which can be daunting to implement. But, if [...]

Sandra K. Antoniak

Risk Assessment Tools for Legally Involved Youth

Transitional age brain happens between the age of 13 to 25 years old where there’s a mismatch between the areas of the brain involved in emotions and pleasure and the region [...]

Bobby Kipper

Spiritual Wellness for Criminal Justice Professionals

In the last couple of years, there has been a shift in the criminal justice training arena towards the ‘soft skills’ to help criminal justice professionals manage the people they [...]

Obed Magny

The Need for Transformational Leadership in Policing

Transformational leadership is an approach that aims to increase engagement, enhance the motivation, and improve morale of the workforce. It is also a valuable tool for justice professionals to have [...]

Wendy A. Dutton

Lindsay M. Gephardt

Forensic Interviews of Children: What Justice Professionals Need to Know

The best people to provide clarity in any case are the ones who actually experienced or witnessed it. But when your top witness is a child, it may not be [...]

Jim Martin

Suicide Prevention: A NCCHC Resource Guide

The Suicide Prevention Resource Guide was conceived with a goal to find solutions for suicidal individuals and suicide risks in correctional facilities. It provides insights, promising practices, and guidelines for [...]

Rich LeCates

Partner Webinar: Is Your Training Program Up to Par? Investment in Your Training Program to Produce The Best Outcomes

The law enforcement profession is facing so many obstacles – civil unrest and political tension, pandemic restrictions, budget allocation, mass attrition – which makes one somewhat doubt if there really is some [...]

Jake Kamins

Top 10 Ways to Screw Up a Case

To get people to do things and follow specific rules, you tell them what to do. But for some, getting things etched in their memory requires a more creative approach. [...]

Celia Besore

Carmen Van Voorhis

Jay Hauhn

Bob Finney III

Alarm Calls For Service: Increasing Accuracy, Efficiency and Reliability

The ASAP (Automated Secure Alarm Protocol) to PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point) service provides unprecedented efficiencies for public safety agencies by automating the creation of calls-for-service, effectively saving minutes spent [...]

Alycia Cisneros

Alexis Calleros

Eden Ruiz-Lopez

How Does Elder Abuse Impact Latinx Communities?

One in ten people over the age of 60 are abused or neglected each year, taking into account that elder abuse remains vastly under-detected and underreported. The largest minority group in [...]

Ray Guidetti

Building a Crime Gun Intelligence Capability

How do you stop gun violence when it reaches a point that an innocent 13-year-old is gunned down while taking the trash out on Christmas Day? You do everything in [...]

Judge Brandon Birmingham

Tex and Charlie: The People of California v. Charles “Tex” Watson

Charlie Manson is notorious for bringing together a group that is responsible for a series of murders in the Los Angeles area. However, it was his first Lieutenant, Charles, “Tex” [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Executive Skills: How to be a More Efficient Leader at Any Level

Experience is indeed a great teacher. There are things that we don’t get taught or trained in and just end up acquiring the skills as we go through life. [...]

David Rosengard

Prosecuting Farmed Animal Cruelty

When people think of farmed animals, what comes to mind are chickens, cows, and pigs. Its legal definition however provides specific conditions for an animal to be part of this [...]

William "Bill" Loucks Jr

Hemp for Law Enforcement

Is it hemp or is it marijuana? That is the question. It can actually be pretty confusing but law enforcement officers ought to be able to discern the similarities and [...]

Wendy Hummell

Improving Resilience in Five Minutes a Day: Applying the 4 Pillars of Resilience into a Daily Routine to Thrive

The concept of resilience may seem abstract and at times romanticized to a fault. But at its core and in the practical side of looking at things, resilience is a [...]

Lois James, PhD

Police Fatigue: Strategies for Managing Fatigue and Promoting Sleep Health

With the inherent nature of the law enforcement profession where officers are exposed to challenging conditions, traumatic circumstances, plus add the shift work into the equation, fatigue becomes inevitable. Numerous [...]

Ed Sherman, Psy.D.

The Leader’s Dilemma: How to Balance Two Important Needs

Typically, the interests of the employees and the employers are viewed to be at odds with each other, and leaders also usually find themselves in a dilemma and balancing on [...]

Kate Kimble

Crisis Communication Basics: Speaking Up When You Don’t Know What to Say

We’re all living in a world where information is being released for public consumption constantly. Unfortunately, some of these are actually inaccurate or just deliberate misinformation. Public safety agencies [...]

Al Cobos

Motivational Conversation for Community Building: Learn the skills needed to connect and engage with the communities we serve

Getting people to mobilize around a goal isn’t always the easiest thing to do. The same goes for getting the community members into building relationships with law enforcement that [...]

Jake Kamins

Preparing for Trial: What Witnesses and Experts Need to Know

We all have some vague idea about how the justice system works, be it with how it is portrayed in the media, with how public trials are covered in the [...]

John Barbieri

Michael M. Cutone

Innovation in Policing: C3 Policing and the Eight Building Blocks for Healthier Communities

Police cannot arrest their way out of criminal activities in communities, that is for sure. Arresting all the bad actors law enforcement can get their hands on places a huge [...]

Cheryl Stewart

Michael M. Brown

Emotional Intelligence: Learning more about Self Expression and Emotional Expression

This is the final installment of the six-part Emotional Intelligence (EI) webinar series. Past sessions introduced the Dr. Reuven Bar-on EI Model, unpacked self-awareness, discussed the importance of stress management, [...]

Wendy Rountree

Cody Telep

Jon Bottema

Patrol Intelligence Officers: Intelligence-Led Policing in Action

Patrol officers are the ones that spend most time on the field so it makes sense that they’re able to gather leads and other information while interacting with the [...]

David Rosengard

Courtroom Animal Advocate Programs: At the Crossroads of Crime Victim Law and Animal Law

Meaningful progress in crime victims’ rights in the US truly shaped criminal justice. The best part, the past decade or so witnessed society’s recognition of the sentience of animals [...]

K. Campbell

10 Cyber Security and Online Privacy Tips for Everyone

According to the 2020 FBI Internet Crime Report, internet crime complaints and monetary loss due to cybercrimes were at a record high in 2020. The caveat is, of course, these are just [...]

Cherice Hopkins

Rebecca Burney

How a History of Sexual Exploitation and Racial Violence Funnels Women and Girls of Color into the Abuse to Prison Pipeline

Native and Black women and girls are often the targets of sexual exploitation, forcing a narrative that their bodies are for the sexual gratification of men. Cherice Hopkins and Rebecca [...]

Damon Ing

Partner Webinar: Becoming a First Line Supervisor: Characteristics, Training and Challenges

The first step is always the hardest. It also often is a step outside one’s comfort zone. For law enforcement officers recently promoted to a front-line supervisor, this is [...]

Easton McDonald

Megan Price

Getting Curious in the Face of Conflict: How to Use Targeted Questions to Control Escalation

We all experience conflicts, and conflict resolution is a skill that is very valuable and can be applied to all the facets of our lives. For those working in law [...]

Grant McDougall

Millennials and Generation Z in Law Enforcement: The strengths, limitations and unique characteristics of the “Me” generations.

The law enforcement field is facing systemic challenges brought about by a mass exodus of law enforcement officers hired in the 90s that are retiring simultaneously and the difficulty of [...]

Emily LaGratta

Communicating Trust: Can Simple Website Edits Boost Legitimacy?

The justice system is under heavy scrutiny. The outcome of this is the public’s deteriorating trust in the agencies and processes within. Trust-building is paramount, but the question being [...]

Don Redmond

Launching Your Agency’s Drone Program: From Planning to Take Off

The idea of drones being used in law enforcement can raise privacy concerns from the citizens. However, there are lots of benefits to be gained from employing this emerging technology [...]

C. Gabrielle Salfati

Investigative Psychology: The Latest Science on Offender Profiling & Linking Serial Crimes

Apart from the forensic science, another aspect of investigation that people find fascinating is the psychology behind it – it’s the type of capabilities that solve some of the most [...]

Michelle Welch

Animal Crimes: The Issues and Problems Facing Small, Rural and Tribal Law Enforcement (Part 1)

Animal crimes can be tedious to investigate and prosecute but for small and rural law enforcement agencies, there are unique circumstances that make these even more challenging. Michelle Welch is [...]

Sheryl Victorian

Relational Policing: Using the Power of Connection to Build Trust

According to a Gallup Poll, the public’s confidence in law enforcement has declined for both the Black and White segments of the population and has been its lowest point [...]

Marc Hildebrand

The Secret Behind Getting into Incredible Shape while Working Our Crazy Careers

We all want to be the best version of ourselves. Unfortunately, as we juggle so many things in our lives, we sometimes find ourselves dropping some of these, with one [...]

Cheryl Stewart

Michael M. Brown

Emotional Intelligence: Recognizing Interpersonal Skills and Empathy

This is the fifth of the Emotional Intelligence (EI) webinar series. In the past four sessions, we’re introduced to the Dr. Reuven Bar-on EI Model, unpacked self-awareness, discussed the [...]

Laura Joyner

Angela Aufmuth

Operation Find Our Kids: Coordinated Efforts to Find Missing Children

Law enforcement is inundated with shortages of resources and an overwhelmed workforce. Couple that with talks of reform and defunding, the profession is bending over backward to meet the demands [...]

Obed Magny

Morale in Criminal Justice Agencies

Dealing with critical incidents, people that could potentially endanger public safety, generally righting what is wrong with the community is no easy feat – this is what the criminal justice profession [...]

Trevor Whipple

Animal Cruelty Investigations and the 4th Amendment

People love animals. Sometimes the role of animals for their humans are so valuable that humans depend on them for daily activities as in the case of service animals and [...]

Edward Paine

Hilary Weinberg

Preparing Witnesses and Experts for Trial

Most people’s knowledge of the criminal justice system is founded on media portrayals of forensic investigations or court proceedings that are not always realistic. With this in mind, it [...]

Jake Creps

Partner Webinar: Using Online Marketplaces for Valuable Open Source Intelligence Data

As we all move towards an online life, so are the bad guys and the crimes. From cybercrimes that put our online security and identities in danger like malwares, phishing, [...]

Sandra K. Antoniak

“I Wanted to Know What it Feels Like”: Childhood Psychopathy and Extreme Violence Committed by Youth

One in every ten violent crimes committed in the US is perpetrated by a person younger than 18 years old. Violence perpetrated by youth is truly unsettling. It also makes us, [...]

Scott Wolfe

Improving Officer Motivation to Train: The Barriers and Facilitators to Police Training Receptivity

The law enforcement field is pushed into the spotlight due to controversial and complicated interactions between the officers and the community. Not one to take things sitting down, law enforcement [...]

Ben Gorban

Frank Straub, PhD

Jennifer Zeunik

Creating a Culture of Learning: After-Action Reviews

It’s been said time and again, it’s only failure if you don’t learn from it. In the current political climate where law enforcement is under scrutiny, efforts [...]

Halcyon Frank

Creating the Best Start for New Dispatchers

The first day on the job can be anxiety-inducing. Everything and everyone is new, and you’re scared to mess up, this is especially true for new dispatchers who learn [...]

Chris Brosan

Avoiding Teeth and Bullets: Safely Interacting with Animals as a Law Enforcement Officer

When someone decides to be in the law enforcement profession, they might not necessarily be thinking of having to deal with animals and it is assumed that animals remain within [...]

Michelle Welch

Making the Call: Simple, Gross Neglect or Cruelty?

When it comes to making the call in terms of charging for animal law crimes, what the statute prescribes is essential, but context also plays a huge part in determining [...]

Katie Nelson

Kate Kimble

Transparency in the Digital Era

Transparency is a success indicator in the public service space. How do organizations effectively achieve this in their efforts in an arena that deals with sensitive if not classified information? [...]

Jayson Chambers

Noreen Charlton

Partner Webinar: The Power of 3D Technology in the Courtroom

For law enforcement and the courts, ensuring that justice is served, the community is kept safe, and the bad guys are made accountable are the primary goals. 3D technology is [...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Long-Term Coping Skills

The pandemic affected people all over the world. Physically – with their mobility reduced due to health protocols; socially – with lessened interactions with loved ones; professionally – with productivity impacted by remote [...]

Dr. Stephen Odom

Amy Morgan

Depression: Myths, Signs, Prevention and Treatment

People assume that depression looks the same for everybody, but this isn’t really the case. This session is dedicated to better understand depression – see its prevalence, debunk myths about [...]

Joel Caplan, PhD

Crime Prevention with Data-Informed Community Engagement

What happens when you merge factors of evidence-based and community policing together? Well, you get a super-informed strategy to mitigating and managing crime and other issues that a community might [...]

Cheryl Stewart

Michael M. Brown

Emotional Intelligence: Understanding Decision Making and Reality Testing

This session is the fourth of the Dr. Reuven Bar-on Emotional Intelligence Model webinar series. The first session provided an overview of the Emotional Intelligence EQ-i 2.0 model. The second webinar [...]

Lindsay M. Gephardt

Make the Call: Child Discipline or Abuse

Determining between physical discipline and child abuse essentially boils down to a balancing test between the right of the parent/s to raise their children as they please and the [...]

Bobby Betros

Laura Sudkamp

Michael Lee

Ronald E. Brooks

Partner Webinar: Understanding Hemp vs Marijuana – and how to test for the difference

With more and more products being sold in the market that features hemp or CBD as an ingredient, distinguishing between hemp and illicit marijuana, CBD and THC, is causing some [...]

Mark Warren

Protecting Key People in Your Organization

Safety and security are essential – heads of states, organizational leaders, and celebrities face threats and risks and employ protective details to provide this. Ordinary people, however, can likewise encounter such [...]

Andrew Campbell

Disaster Without, Disaster Within: Natural Disasters and Family Violence

There are risk factors for family violence. This includes financial conditions, level of unemployment, and educational background – things that we can control or manage in one way or another. Natural [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Leadership: Lessons Learned Throughout a Career

Willingness to learn is a critical skill in any individual. Learning, however, can be a time-consuming process, and in the public safety and helping profession, the gift of time is [...]

Wendy Hummell

Understanding Compassion Fatigue for First Responders and Criminal Justice Professionals

Who helps the helpers when they’re the ones who need help? Work for those in the helping professions – law enforcement, medical, EMT, animal control, fire, dispatch – seeing people suffering, [...]

David Rosengard

When The Evidence Needs A Home: Best Practices for Pre-Conviction Forfeiture Statute Use

Animals have overlapping statuses in law. They are property, evidence, and victims of crime. Like any property, they cannot just be unlawfully seized or assigned to a different owner. And [...]

Sean Goodison

Police Response to Homelessness: Promising Practices and Partnerships for Criminal Justice Professionals

Law enforcement has been the first responder and default go-to entity for so many incidents that they really shouldn’t be involved in the first place. With the realization that [...]

Johnny Roberson

Rich LeCates

Partner Webinar: How Should We Train Officers for Long-Term and Fulfilling Careers?

Expectations are high when it comes to what must be done to be seen as effective or successful in this world of technology and information. The same expectations are demanded [...]

Claire Barrera

Alexandra Appleton

Building a Community Advisory Board for those Impacted by Violence

Taking a trauma-informed approach has been central when it comes to handling the victims and survivors of violence. To do this successfully may entail the expertise of people who actually [...]

Katie Nelson

Public Information Post-George Floyd

The last 12 months have been intense. In between a pandemic that threw off the whole world, the attack on the Capitol, incidents that pushed the BLM and StopAAPIHate movements into [...]

Catherine A. Miller

David "Ship" Shipley

Don’t Do Data Sharing Alone! And Don’t Do Half Way Data Sharing!

Bad guys know no jurisdictional boundaries. They’ll commit crimes in one city, state, or even country and then perpetrate more in another. While the value of collaboration and information-sharing [...]

Chris Jones

Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Importance of Law Enforcement Recognition and Intervention

It’s been said that most of the things we are dealing with in our adulthood are actually remnants of our childhood. We may not see it outright, but once [...]

Obed Magny

The Importance of Mental Tenacity in Policing

There’s just too much we’re all dealing with in the world today that being on that go-mode just becomes our default setting. It means being always ready in [...]

Stephany Powell

Kevin Morison

Local Strategies To Combat the Global Problem of Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is a global problem that generates billions of dollars in profit. Commonly misconstrued to be a criminal activity involving undocumented immigrants, human trafficking is on the rise in [...]

Al Cobos

Motivational Conversation for Investigators

Outside the “cool” parts of law enforcement that we see on TV, a huge chunk of the profession operates on a lot of people skills and community engagement. Checking how [...]

Cheryl Stewart

Michael M. Brown

Emotional Intelligence: Flexibility & Stress Management

This session is the third of the Emotional Intelligence webinar series. The first session provided an overview of the Emotional Intelligence EQ-i 2.0 model, the research it is based upon, the [...]

Emily LaGratta

Measuring Fairness: Using Client Feedback to Enhance Our Work

There are performance indicators that can easily be measured for success – things like numbers of arrests, recidivism rate, or completed probation. But there are also more subjective metrics, like fairness. [...]

Damon Ing

Partner Webinar: The Future of De-Escalation Training for Law Enforcement

Register to attend this special webinar presentation with Dr. Damon Ing, retired Law Enforcement Officer and Lead Coordinator of the Tarrant County College Law Enforcement Academy in Fort Worth, Texas. [...]

Jenn Markey

Martin Hoff

Partner Webinar: Enabling a World of Trust within Law Enforcement, Local Government and Criminal Justice Systems

When it comes to the identities, credentials, and transactions of employees and citizens, securing a foundation of trust is more important now than ever. This webinar will explore the trends, [...]

Alexis Calleros

Julie Schoen

The Elder Abuse Guide for Law Enforcement (EAGLE): It’s Not Just for Law Enforcement!

There are stereotypes and stigma associated with elders that create barriers preventing older adults from reporting incidents of elder abuse. In a world inundated with information, there are critical things [...]

Shawn Williams

Cultural Intelligence for Law Enforcement: A Deeper Dive for Success.

The turn of events over the last few years highlighted the adverse consequences of lack of cultural intelligence and beliefs fueled by hate. It is useful more than ever to [...]

Jim Martin

NCCHC and COVID-19: Lessons We’ve Learned in our Facilities

It’s been a year since the world shifted as nations hurried to enforce limitations on people’s social mobility in response to the ballooning casualty of the novel coronavirus. [...]

Mo Canady

Chris Loane

Michael Lee

Ronald E. Brooks

Partner Webinar: Intercepting Narcotics in Schools Post Pandemic – School Resource Officer Education and Training

The pandemic has created different challenges for everyone. The kids and youths are forced to stay at home without their peers and school support system. In the critical adolescent development [...]

Nina Stively

When the Evidence Wags Its Tail

When it comes to combatting crime and cruelty, would want to ensure that offenders are made accountable for the violence or negligence committed. When the victims are helpless and do [...]

Barbara Mattes

Recognition and Prevention of Sex Trafficking in Adult Corrections Facilities

There’s a lack of awareness regarding sex trafficking. Girls and adult women are being arrested by law enforcement for prostitution when they are actually victims of sex trafficking. Meanwhile, [...]

K. Campbell

Making Personal Safety a Priority: Lessons for Public Officials, Criminal Justice Professionals and Victim Advocates

If there’s anything that the last 12 months taught us, it is that things can go awry any moment, danger is always lurking, and it is critical to make personal [...]

Bryon O'Neil

Noreen Charlton

Partner Webinar: Capturing the Truth: How 3D Technology Can Help Your Agency Manage Officer-Involved Incidents

Technology changes the course of our lives. On one end, it improves how we do things, on the other, it presents new challenges trying to acclimate to it and integrate [...]

Michelle Welch

What ACO’s Need to Know about Puppy Mills

Between the lack of legal familiarity within the court, society’s oblivion to the suffering of animals, and the animals’ inability to testify on their experience and plight, proving animal [...]

Jamie L. Roush

You don’t just need MORE data. You need the RIGHT data.

Data-driven and evidence-based approach is the buzzword in almost any industry lately. With all the data that’s made available from the numerous technology and systems that we are using, [...]

Michael “Vince” Kersey

James Reed

El Paso Intelligence Center Capabilities: All Threats, All Crimes, Support for All Law Enforcement

Collaboration and information-sharing are key to any effective law enforcement effort. And there is no greater testament to this than the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC). EPIC is one of, [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Growing Your Career by Developing Your Brand

We all probably started out in our careers with some goal. But somewhere along the journey, the goal may start to blur, we might get sidetracked, finding ourselves meandering or [...]

Chris Eloiza

Gabrielle Padilla

The Benefits of Correctional Intelligence Led Policing

It’s about time we recognize the value of corrections. Not just to merely protect the community by keeping the bad guys out of the streets, but also through the [...]

Cheryl Stewart

Michael M. Brown

Emotional Intelligence: Using Self Perception and Self Awareness

This webinar is the second of a three-part series on emotional intelligence. The first session provided an overview of the Emotional Intelligence EQ-i 2.0 model, the research it is based upon, [...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Change and Acceptance: Why We Succeed, Why We Fail

We witnessed massive changes around us. Between 2020’s wildfires, COVID-19, George Floyd, the civil unrest, to a heated presidential election, and the fresh Capitol riot of 2021, we’re all forced [...]

Katie Nelson

Preparation is Key: Ensuring Your Chief is Ready for Media Interviews

Dealing with critical incidents is a default setting for those working in the law enforcement arena. Those in the front lines are putting themselves at risk handling some of the [...]

Shane Nolte

Krista Thronson

BJ Wagner

Dr. Margie Balfour

John Snook

Successful Mental Health Diversion Programs: What Law Enforcement Needs to Know

Emergencies are typically grouped based on who can resolve them: fire, medic, or police. It’s easy to determine which ones fall under fire and medic. For all the gray [...]

Halcyon Frank

Domestic Violence and Dispatch

Dispatch serves as the intermediary between members of the community and the first responders who can help them. But merely being the messenger is not sufficient when it comes to [...]

Adam Leath

Video Testimony: The Virtual Courtroom for the ACO

The COVID-19 pandemic truly reshaped how we live and the criminal justice field is just one of the sectors affected by it. The new normal found its way to the [...]

Jesse Loomis

A Case Study in Pennsylvania’s Transition to Online Sheriff Sales

With COVID-19 rampant across the U.S., sheriffs in Pennsylvania sought to find a way to continue their auctions without risking further spread of the infection. A progressive sheriff decided [...]

Chris Loane

Michael Lee

Ronald E. Brooks

Fentanyl and First Responder Safety: Myths vs Reality

Fentanyl and drugs containing fentanyl are the leading cause of overdose deaths in America. Law enforcement officers are encountering this deadly drug with increasing frequency during traffic stops, on calls [...]

Dr. Jeff Fox, PhD

Understanding Unethical Behavior

Some of the most pressing problems that entities both in the public and private sphere are facing right now boil down to ethics. Use of force, bribery, and corruption are [...]

David Black

Strengthening First Responder Resilience and Wellness During Social Unrest and Stressful Times

First responders are the people whom the community depend on to do the dirty work – the ones we know we can’t handle and are too difficult. Given the stressful [...]

Al Cobos

Motivational Conversation for Supervisors: Easy to learn skills needed to move your team in the right direction

Managers aim to move their people towards an organizational goal. But by merely telling someone just what to do, you may be setting them up for failure when they’re [...]

Ashley Heiberger

Policing in the Post-Floyd Era: Use of Force and Community Engagement

We’ve heard it time and again, from sage life advice to pop culture… With great power comes great responsibility. The past few years is testament to how this applies [...]

Matthew C. Thomas

Kevin Armbruster

Kerry Yerico

Elevating Community Engagement and Relationships to Reduce Gun Violence

Amidst the socio-political atmosphere, the entity that swore to serve and protect the public is experiencing some of the greatest challenges – distrust from the communities and the threat of being [...]

Dr. Kris Otteman DVM

Linda Fielder

Emily Lewis

Preserving the Bond and Preventing Cruelty: The Veterinarian’s Role

The concept of the animal-human bond simply refers to the role that animals play in human’s lives. Veterinarians play a critical role in the animal-human bond with their duty [...]

Jeffery Carroll

Alex Goldenberg

Glen Mills

Paul G. Goldenberg

Mark Pfeifle

From Flash to Bang: How Disinformation Fueled the Attack on The U.S. Capitol

Disinformation is wreaking havoc on our modern society. The January sixth attack on the Capitol is one of the most glaring and horrifying examples of which. Groups that operate on [...]

Erin Monahan

Trent Hayden

A Beginner’s Guide to Online Investigations

For most, the concept of online research is just merely doing a Google search and then rummaging through the millions of search results that it returns. This session aims to [...]

Amy Morgan

Outside Yourself: Making the Most of Mental Health Resources

In discussions that relate to mental health, self-care, and wellness, one of the points that is stressed time and again is to reach out to resources proactively and when needed. [...]

Cheryl Stewart

Michael M. Brown

Emotional Intelligence: How EQ Can Make a Difference in Your Criminal Justice Career

In the real world, it takes more than just the traditional definition of intelligence to make it in life. Emotional intelligence, also known as EQ, is regarded as a much [...]

Carolyn Naoroz

Janne Gaub

Understanding the Impact of Police Body Worn Cameras on Public Defenders

Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are touted by law enforcement agencies for its ability to uphold transparency and accountability. No doubt, BWCs are beneficial in the overall goal of justice, but what [...]

Mark Warren

Dealing with High Risk Terminations

By nature, humans tend to avoid thinking of the negative things we have to deal with. This tendency limits our ability to deal with the negativity when it comes. But [...]

Michael Goold

It’s the Manager

Organizational productivity has been linked to a multitude of factors, and leadership is identified as one of the key cornerstones of this topic. The role of managers is seen as [...]

Jeri’ Greer

Danielle (Hunter) Thompson

A Proactive Response to Domestic Violence: Collaboration in Facility and Parole-Based Batterer Intervention Programming

This session is the third installment of the Proactive Response to Domestic Violence webinar series. The first course discussed how domestic violence is perpetrated even when the offender is already [...]

John J. Farmer, Jr.

Paul G. Goldenberg

Graham Brookie

Chris Swanson

Donald J. Mihalek

Mark Pfeifle

Unintended Consequences of Disinformation Campaigns on Law Enforcement

Information circulated in online platforms is being leveraged to mobilize the population to stand up for justice and accountability. But the same channels are used to spread false information that [...]

Frankie Grimsman

Roger Blevins

The Prosecution of Child Neglect Cases

Crimes are either by commission or omission. When it comes to cruelty to children, one can either commit abuse by harming a child or fail to act as required and [...]

Adam Leath

Actions Speak Louder than Words: What Your Boss Wished You Knew. Professionalism in an Increasingly Unprofessional World

Too often, employees come to their bosses for grievances in hopes that they can provide answers to their questions and solutions to their issues. But did it ever occur what [...]

Jon Gaster

Justin Steinke

Emergency Response, Search and Rescue, Disaster Recovery: Real-time Video Streaming for Improved Situational Awareness

Both Tactical and Strategic Situational Awareness are critical for assessment, coordination, and delivery during Emergency Response, Search and Rescue, and Disaster Recovery. High quality, live video, and telemetry data streaming [...]

Beth Gammie

Animals in Disasters: How to Help Your Community

Probably one of the best developments that we’ve seen in the last few years related to critical event and disaster response is how agencies responsible for preparations and rescue [...]

Katharine Manning

Victim Rights: What Law Enforcement Officers Need to Know

Victims often feel violated or scared after an incident, so ensuring that there are rights that protect them is crucial in getting their cooperation throughout the case. Victims’ rights serve [...]

Kevin Johnson

How LTE Can Connect Essential Law Enforcement Technologies

At all levels, law enforcement depends on fast and always-on access to critical applications and data to better protect people and property and maintain order. The latest advancements in cellular-based [...]

David Grantham

Analyzing and Producing Actionable Insights

This is the third installment of the Detention Intelligence webinar series. The first webinar explained the wealth of information waiting to be leveraged in detention and correction facilities that may [...]

Kim Basinger

Roger Blevins

Understanding Sexual Abuse Examinations in Investigation and Prosecution Efforts

Sexual abuse no doubt is traumatic for the victim. The processes involved following the incident may get even more confusing and stressful. Having to recount what happened to investigators and [...]

David Hyche

Dealing with Big City Gun Crime in Small Towns

The common misconception is that violent crimes happen in big cities more than they do in small towns. Interestingly, if to analyze the crime figures vis-à-vis the population, it [...]

Judge Brandon Birmingham

The United States of America vs. Timothy James McVeigh: The OKC Bombing Trial

Silently enraged about the perceived murder of innocent Americans by their own Government at the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco and in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, as well as the perceived [...]

Gordon Ramsay

The Wichita Crime Gun Intelligence Center: a Unique Law Enforcement University Partnership Approach

When it comes to addressing gun crimes, traditional reactive models of patrol and arrests just seem to be not enough anymore. As the trigger pullers in the community grow smarter, [...]

Halcyon Frank

Amy Morgan

Life-Saving Partners: 911 and Suicide Lifelines Working Together

Ensuring the safety of the public requires constant coordination between the agencies involved. Fire, EMS, law enforcement, dispatch – these are just some of the key stakeholders that must collaborate to [...]

Bill Pope

Craig Storer

The Current FCC Proceedings and How They will Affect Your Inmate Communications Environment

There are ongoing FCC proceedings that aim to regulate the Inmate Calling Services (ICS) rates and fees. Changes proposed will impact the operations of prisons and jails in terms of [...]

Katie Nelson

You Matter: Self Care for the Social Media Manager

If you’re finding yourself not performing at your best the past months, you’re not the only one. The past 9 months or so had been surreal, from natural disasters, [...]

Mark Warren

The Psychology of an Active Shooter

Active shooters tend to take their own lives immediately after they carried out their planned destruction. Thus, the motivation behind active shooter attacks remains to be somewhat of a mystery. [...]

Eric Knutson

Jeannette Dominguez

Anthony Norman

Recruiting the 21st Century Police Officer: Successes, Challenges and Lessons Learned

These days, recruiting for roles within the Police Department is quite the task. It requires agencies to have an awareness of what exactly they’re looking for, and what the [...]

David Grantham

Building Detention Intel the Right Way

Jails and prisons house some of law enforcement's best and unexpected assets. Individuals behind bars are some of the best information sources when it comes to uncovering crime operations. This [...]

Rob Weinhold

The Art of Crisis Leadership

In the law enforcement arena, it is not a matter of if a crisis will hit, but when will it hit. Crises may mean time, money, customers, careers and, in [...]

Lois James, PhD

Renée J. Mitchell, J.D., Ph.D.

Understanding Implicit Bias: Research and Reality

Implicit bias is a hot issue that the Justice Clearinghouse has covered in past webinars. However, most of these past discussions centered on defining implicit bias and how it manifests. [...]

Joe Alexander

Chris Williams

Adapting to Critical Change at Corrections Facilities

The COVID-19 pandemic truly changed how we live our lives. We were all forced to tweak how we do our daily transactions. It is even more stringent when it comes [...]

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