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June 26, 2020
NIJ Blog Post
The Importance of Management in Evidence-Based Policing
Research-minded law enforcement officers often perform some level of management analysis, whether through in-house evaluations driven by data analytics, compliance analysis, or iterations of performance monitoring. The implementation of evidence-based research projects will improve policing by providing answers to what works and delivering actionable results to agencies. This article from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) discusses the benefits of evidence-based policing and research projects.
New COSSAP Solicitation
Overdose Fatality Review Database Pilot Site Selection
The United States is experiencing an epidemic of drug overdose deaths, and a growing number of communities are using overdose fatality reviews (OFRs) to effectively identify system gaps and innovative community-specific overdose prevention and intervention strategies to strengthen their local responses to this epidemic. The OFR Database Pilot Site Selection solicitation—funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control—funds local, state, and tribal OFR initiatives to use and provide feedback on the standardized OFR database. Applications are due on July 7, 2020.
New Resource
Police Chiefs and Prosecutors Find Common Ground
The Police Executive Research Forum brought together prosecutors and police executives from eleven jurisdictions in 2019 to look for common ground on criminal justice reform. Leaders from the group recognized that in the growing national debate over criminal justice reform, police chiefs and prosecutors were often talking past each other instead of to each other. This new report from that forum details the discussions and presents a set of 12 common-ground principles agreed upon by the attendees.
APA Toolkit
Treating Marginalized Populations in a Changing Environment
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) developed this toolkit to help providers understand the unique circumstances facing historically marginalized populations and the impact that the current sociopolitical climate in the United States has on their mental health. This toolkit aims to give readers a deeper understanding of cultural concepts of distress, recommendations for screening and treatment for trauma, recommendations for providing mental health and substance use disorder services compatible with the culture of each specific population, tools to connect people in these populations to community resources, and general treatment recommendations and resources.
NW3C Webinar
Encryption, Encoding, and Inaccessible Data
This no-cost webinar, presented by the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), will help lay the framework for a factual understanding of how encryption and hashing are used in digital investigations. Real-world applications of hashing and encryption will be shown, with an emphasis on how they impact investigations in 2020. Discussion will center on how to determine whether an application encrypts data, how it does that, and why examiners may be unable to decrypt it.
Date: Thursday, July 2, 2020
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m., ET
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