Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council's Five in Five
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The Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council’s (CICC) Five in 5 is a collection of resources that may be of interest to law enforcement and homeland security partners working to improve the nation’s ability to develop and share criminal intelligence. The Five in 5 highlights promising practices, case studies, and success stories and identifies products, reports, training, and toolkits to build, implement, and enhance a criminal intelligence capability. You are encouraged to share this e-mail with your association members, colleagues, department/organization personnel, and others, as appropriate. Please contact cicc@iir.com to submit a success story or resource for consideration in the CICC’s Five in 5. To view the Five in 5 archive, visit: https://it.ojp.gov/FiveIn5.
NIBRS 2021
Are You Ready?
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is responding to law enforcement’s call to upgrade and update the nation’s crime statistics by working to transition to a National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)-only data collection by January 1, 2021. Law enforcement agencies are encouraged to start implementing NIBRS now. Switching to a NIBRS-only data collection will improve the nation’s crime data through rich details and greater specificity of offenses. This will make NIBRS the nationwide standard for collection of crime data.
Anticipating inquiries about the transition, the FBI has compiled a new document with answers to frequently asked NIBRS-related questions—NIBRS: 30 FAQs. The FBI remains committed to assisting all agencies in making the switch.
Sexual Assault Kit Initiative
Success Story
SAKI and ViCAP are resources that law enforcement jurisdictions should know about—especially those that are looking to apprehend serial rapists and killers. There are an untold number of serial criminals nationwide who continue to commit heinous crimes because they haven't been identified and DNA and case information have not been linked. SAKI and ViCAP can fill that gap.
~Jon Adler, Director, Bureau of Justice Assistance
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) is one of the critical investigative tools that led authorities to believe that Samuel Little may be the worst serial killer in American history. Using this tool, police agencies across the country were able to corroborate at least 34 of Little's confessions.
By his own admission, Little allegedly killed as many as 90 victims in at least 19 states over the course of 35 years. He denied all allegations against him until experts from BJA, the FBI’s Violent Crime Apprehension Program (ViCAP), and the Texas Rangers elicited confessions from him in early 2018. Many of Little’s alleged crimes occurred in jurisdictions that had received SAKI grants, which enabled at least 11 cities to close cold cases linked to him. BJA shared information from Little’s confessions with the SAKI sites, helped locate cases based on Little’s confessions, helped sites assess any available evidence for DNA testing, and facilitated interviews with Little to close their cases.
PERF Annual Meeting
May 28–May 31, 2019
The Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) Annual Meeting is being held in conjunction with the conferences of the Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Executive Institute Associates (NEIA) from May 28 through May 31, 2019, in Miami Beach, Florida. All registrants are welcome to attend all meetings, sessions, and events sponsored by PERF, MCCA, and NEIA during the Annual Meeting.
Promoting Public Safety, Privacy, and the Rule of Law Around the World
The Purpose and Impact of the CLOUD Act
Our collective safety and security depends on our ability to maintain lawful and efficient access to electronic evidence, and the CLOUD Act offers a sorely needed solution to that challenge.
~Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced the public release of a new white paper on the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act, known as the CLOUD Act. The CLOUD Act was enacted in March 2018 and updates the legal framework for how law enforcement authorities may request electronic evidence needed to protect public safety from service providers while respecting privacy interests and foreign sovereignty.
The white paper describes the interests and concerns that prompted the enactment of the CLOUD Act and provides a concise, point-by-point distillation of the effect, scope, and implications of the Act, as well as answers to frequently asked questions.
OVC Training and Technical Assistance Center
Network Resource Directory
The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Center online TTA Network Resource Directory provides information on current OVC-funded TTA projects and resources for those providing victim-oriented services. The directory features projects on a wide range of topics, such as human trafficking, law enforcement, mental health and well-being, tribal, and more. In addition, the directory provides easy access to OVC’s instructional design standards, training aids, and a national calendar of crime victim assistance-related events.
The mission of the CICC is to advocate for and support state, local, and tribal law enforcement and homeland security agencies and personnel in their efforts to develop and share criminal intelligence for the promotion of public safety and the security of our nation.
This publication is funded in whole or in part through a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Neither the U.S. Department of Justice nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse, this publication (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided).