Hosted by the Justice Clearinghouse and sponsored by the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing, this webinar will demonstrate how effective and sustainable efforts for crime prevention also need to have robust frameworks for collaborative problem-solving and community engagement. The webinar will discuss how police can share the burden of crime prevention with community partners and how both can enhance public safety without a heavy reliance on law enforcement. During this webinar, participants learn how to democratize data and analytics, mobilize community resources and expertise to solve the most pressing crime problems, empower community organizations to become co-producers of public safety, and start doing data-informed community engagement in their jurisdictions.

When: Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m., ET

Hosted by the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, this one-day training provides an overview of a financial crime investigation and what tools or actions an investigator can take at the outset of an investigation. Students learn how to gather documents and analyze those documents for leads by using the techniques provided. Topics include obtaining and working with financial records, investigative strategies for different types of financial crimes, and open-source tools investigators can use to find leads.

When: Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., ET

Published by the U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC), this report describes why threat assessment is important in preventing targeted school violence. The averted attacks in this report confirm what NTAC's research has found on school attacks, specifically that students display a variety of observable concerning behaviors as they escalate towards violence. To identify, assess, and intervene with students who may pose a risk of harm to themselves or others, schools, and communities should develop multidisciplinary threat assessment programs, as outlined in NTAC’s Enhancing School Safety Using a Threat Assessment Model: An Operational Guide for Preventing Targeted School Violence. This strategic approach should be guided by the research findings contained in this report, along with NTAC’s 2019 examination of school attacks that occurred from 2008 to 2017, titled Protecting America’s Schools: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Targeted School Violence.  

April is sexual assault awareness and prevention month, and the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI), sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, has published this informative toolkit. The toolkit brings awareness to the topic of sexual assault and sexual assault investigations. The SAKI program works to eliminate backlogs of untested rape kits. As part of these efforts, SAKI created this toolkit, which includes practices and procedures that should be used in every sexual assault investigation and is designed to help law enforcement personnel ensure that all critical steps are taken and documented according to nationally accepted practices. SAKI also has numerous resources for criminal justice professionals as well as resources for survivors.

Published by the Office of Community Oriented Policing (COPS) in partnership with the Fox Valley Technical College’s National Criminal Justice Training Center (NCJTC), this publication describes various tribes' experiences in developing community policing initiatives. Their contributions provide a comprehensive resource for other tribes working to implement community policing programs to improve public safety in their communities.