Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and hosted by the National Suicide Awareness for Law Enforcement Officers Program (SAFLEO), this forum will dive deeper into policy and strategic planning surrounding suicide prevention and response.  Through guided instruction and facilitated discussions, you will learn about the underlying causes of suicide, explore a variety of solutions for both you and your agency, and consider ways for your organization to overcome barriers to help-seeking encountered by your officers.  This training is a virtual, self-paced course offered over a two-week period and concludes with a live roundtable event.  The self-paced course launches on Monday, October 9, 2023, and the live event will be held on Tuesday, October 23, 2023. 

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and hosted by the National White Collar Crime Center, this webinar features NYPDs Major Case Field Intelligence Team, which is responsible for investigations related to ghost guns in New York City.  The team has been conducting these investigations for nearly four years and has developed several proactive investigative models in conjunction with its partners in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.  During this presentation, attendees will be taught the basics of ghost guns and the various ways that they can be manufactured.  The first portion of the presentation will lead to a discussion on what is involved in starting a proactive ghost gun investigative program.  Finally, Manhattan Ghost Gun prosecutor ADA Bonnie Seok from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office will discuss the general topic from a prosecutor's point of view and share some of the success stories her office has experienced working with the Major Case Team.

When: Wednesday, September 23, 2023
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., ET
 

Hosted by the Council of State Governments Justice Center and funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, this webinar discusses why people with behavioral health conditions are entering the criminal justice system more frequently.  Research shows that peer support specialists have helped lower recidivism risk for program participants; increase participant engagement with treatment, court obligations, and other services; and increase individual reports of empowerment, motivation, and hopefulness.  This webinar will include representatives from Winthrop, MA’s CLEAR program, which consists of a network of recovery coaches, a clinical social worker, the Winthrop Police Department, the Winthrop Public Health Department, and community partners to help individuals through the early recovery process. The discussion will also address how people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) can be integrated into similar peer support roles, highlighting ideas and reflections from a peer support specialist with co-occurring mental health issues and IDD.

When: Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m., ET

Hosted by Justice Clearinghouse, this presentation will assist law enforcement, prosecutors, and forensic interviewers with the tools needed to work with victim populations often found in domestic minor sex trafficking cases. Interviewers often use either a forensic interviewing model or a suspect interviewing model.   Victim populations, however, typically need an approach that is a hybrid of the two models.   This presentation will use the semistructured cognitive interview protocol (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development  [NICHD]) of forensic interviewing adapted to the needs of sex trafficking victims.

When: Thursday, September 21, 2023
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m., ET

Hosted by the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), this podcast discusses a recent study that analyzed LAPD officers’ tone and language during traffic stops. The study was introduced as follows: “Over three years, researchers will review body camera footage from roughly 1,000 traffic stops, then develop criteria on what constitutes an appropriate interaction based on public and office feedback and a review of the department’s policies. These criteria will then be fed into a machine learning program, which will ‘learn’ how to review videos on its own and flag instances where officers cross the line.”  PERF recently convened a national meeting on trends in the use of body-worn cameras, ten years after PERF developed guidelines for the U.S. Justice Department on implementing a body-worn camera program.  A major issue in the meeting was how to manage the massive amount of video a department generates every day. The fact that LAPD, one of America’s largest police departments, is going to use artificial intelligence to help address this issue could provide invaluable insights for other agencies, with implications for both policy and training. This podcast features LAPD Chief Michel Moore to explore the issue in more detail.