Published by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), this report is the second edition of the Global Organized Crime Index report, which offers a robust and comprehensive look at various levels of organized crime and the capacity of the 193 United Nations member states to resist criminal threats.  The Index is based on three key elements:

• The scope, scale, and impact of 15 criminal markets (e.g., trafficking, financial crimes, drug trades)
• The structure and influence of five criminal actor types (e.g., Mafia-style groups, state-embedded actors)
• The existence and capacity of countries to be resilient to organized crime, measured across 12 resilience building blocks (e.g., political leadership, territorial integrity, economic regulatory capacity)

The 2023 Index report indicates that organized crime remains a major challenge in a post-pandemic world where open war, political divide, and strained international relationships abound.  By offering this assessment based on a comprehensive data set and more than 400 experts, the GI-TOC endeavors to provide global actors with a toolkit to understand—and fight—organized crime effectively and fully.

Published by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, this article discusses how Maryland’s Office of the Attorney General brought together community stakeholders to provide strategic guidance on preventing hate crimes and engaging communities.  When individuals and communities are subject to hate crimes and bias events, the need for assistance to build solutions that defend communities and prevent future incidents is an urgent concern.  With expert support from the Maryland Office of the Attorney General (OAG), crime victims across Maryland have the backing they need—and the hope that hate crimes in the state can be eradicated.

Hosted by the Justice Clearinghouse and the International Justice and Public Safety Network (Nlets), this webinar discusses the ever-increasing problem of mobile phone theft. Today’s mobile devices house our most private information: from our personal communications to our photos, passwords, and apps to everything from our banking to online shopping, and even private employer information. But investigating these property crimes isn’t always easy. The National Mobile Property Registry provides officers and analysts with a single-search tool for accessing over a billion device records of activity sourced from retailers, buy-back kiosks, pawn shops, second-hand stores, manufacturers, insurers, Telcom carriers, and consumers. Not limited to IMEI numbers, this database is freely accessible to law enforcement and does not require additional authority to search.

During this webinar, we’ll discuss:

•    What IMEI numbers are
•    Nlets and NMPR
•    How to access NMPR directly
•    When to use NMPR (different case studies)

When:  Thursday, October 12, 2023
Time:  3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m., ET

Published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center for Education Statistics, this report provides summary statistics to inform the nation about current aspects of crime and safety in schools.  The report includes the most recent available data at the time of its development, compiled from a number of statistical data sources supported by the federal government. 

Hosted by the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, this webinar will discuss decision-making in law enforcement when issues are complex and require creative solutions. Decision-making is considered a dynamic process with numerous information inputs leading to massive complexities. This is only compounded for law enforcement professionals during critical incidents and rapidly evolving situations, where there is both a requirement and an expectation for good decisions.  A solution to this overarching issue of increased decision-making and cognitive load is the integration of intelligence analysis into the functions of the corporate suite of your agency. This webinar will explore the nature of uncertainty and how to leverage intelligence as a mechanism to increase confidence in decision-making at federal and state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) law enforcement agencies.  Dr. Matt Lehman will present his research and observations gathered from a career that has included work as a local law enforcement officer and a supervisory intelligence analyst with the FBI.

When:  Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Time:  1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m., ET