Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and hosted by the Preventing Violence Against Law Enforcement and Ensuring Officer Resilience and Survivability (VALOR) Program, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and Education Development Center, this webinar will present both agency and individual best practices that can help officers heal and grow from grief and loss. Officers, command staff members, law enforcement employee assistance program personnel, officer safety and wellness staff members, and mental health professionals all have a role to play in helping individuals and agencies struggling with these issues and are encouraged to attend.

When: Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Time: 3:00 p.m., ET

Hosted by the National White-Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, this webinar serves as an introduction to Coinbase's Global Intelligence team, cryptocurrency, and blockchain investigations from an investigator who has been working with law enforcement around the globe for the last seven years. The webinar will also discuss trends in cybercrime, crypto money laundering, ransomware, and cracking down on the dark web.

When: Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., ET

Hosted by the National Criminal Justice Training Center, this webinar discusses the strategies for the initial response to endangered, missing, or child abduction incidents. The webinar describes the importance of accurate and timely situational assessments and immediate resource deployment. During this training, first responders will gain knowledge of the investigative activities that occur during an endangered missing or child abduction investigation and how their actions influence the short- and long-term response of law enforcement. Participants will learn the impact that a missing and/or abducted child incident has on the family and how this can impact your response. Participants will also examine the critical and necessary first steps for first responders and gain best practices and strategies for search and canvass implementation. The deadline to register for the webinar is May 26, 2021. 

When: Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., CT

Published by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and the National Policing Foundation (NPF), this publication discusses the ASV database which provides a platform for sharing information about averted incidents of violence in institutions of elementary, secondary, and higher education. The ASV database defines an incident of averted school violence as a violent attack planned with or without the use of a firearm that was prevented before any injury or loss of life occurred. A preliminary report (Daniels 2019) analyzed 51 averted incidents of school violence to begin to improve our understanding of averted school attacks. This report analyzes an additional 120 averted incidents of school violence, expanding the knowledge base and further developing lessons learned as our understanding grows of how school attacks are planned, discovered, and thwarted.

Published by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), this bulletin builds on a previous bulletin released in January 2021 and summarizes the types of current terrorist threats that are being monitored and for which our nation is most at risk.  Some heightened risks mentioned in the bulletin include the following:

• Violent extremists may seek to exploit the easing of COVID-19-related restrictions across the United States to conduct attacks against a broader range of targets after previous public capacity limits reduced opportunities for lethal attacks.
• Historically, mass-casualty Domestic Violent Extremist (DVE) attacks linked to racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) have targeted houses of worship and crowded commercial facilities or gatherings. Some RMVEs advocate via social media and online platforms for a race war and have stated that civil disorder provides opportunities to engage in violence in furtherance of ideological objectives.

• Nation-state adversaries have increased efforts to sow discord. For example, Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government-linked media outlets have repeatedly amplified conspiracy theories concerning the origins of COVID-19 and the effectiveness of vaccines.