Hosted by the National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP) and funded by the Office for Violence Against Women (OVW), this two-day in-person interactive training focuses on providing attorneys, law enforcement, prosecutors, and advocates with strategies for strengthening their understanding of legal and victim services options and best practices for working with immigrant survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.  This training offers diverse learning experiences delivered by a faculty of multidisciplinary subject-matter experts from a wide range of legal and victim service backgrounds including judges, law enforcement, prosecutors, advocates, and attorneys.  Immigrant victim- related training topics will include stalking; immigration, public benefits, and family law case options, case strategies, and advanced issues; prosecution best practices; primary aggressor determinations; VAWA confidentiality and discovery; police officers as witnesses; multidisciplinary collaboration; effective outreach; and improving language access.  Participants will learn and share practices and strategies to improve immigrant victim safety, increase participation in the justice system, and enhance community safety.

When: August 28–29 or August 30–31, 2023
Where: Boston, Massachusetts 

On May 25, 2023, the White House announced the release of the Biden-Harris Administration’s U.S National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism. With hate speech (and violence that stems from it) on the rise, listening sessions with more than 1,000 diverse stakeholders across the Jewish community and beyond were held to seek input on the best ways to fight back against the pervasive expressions of hatred.  The insights gained from these sessions helped to build the following foundation for this strategy:

• Pillar 1: Increase awareness and understanding of antisemitism, including its threat to America, and broaden appreciation of Jewish American heritage
• Pillar 2: Improve safety and security for Jewish communities.
• Pillar 3: Reverse the normalization of antisemitism and counter antisemitic discrimination.
• Pillar 4: Build cross-community solidarity and collective action to counter hatred.

An important part of the plan is recognizing that antisemitism does not exist in a vacuum and often persists alongside hatred toward many other groups and cultures.  With all of society affected by this hatred, bringing different communities and entities of faith together to learn about each other and to hold each other up is a critical part of the strategy.

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and hosted by the National White Collar Crime Center, this webinar discusses how the Miami–Dade County, Florida, Police Department and the Middlesex County, New Jersey, Prosecutor’s Office look at cases involving artificial intelligence- supported criminal trade craft, challenges for investigations, and digital forensic considerations.  This presentation will review illustrative case studies, technical considerations, and investigative approaches applied.  The webinar will also examine other potential criminal tactics techniques and procedures where support from artificial intelligence is likely to be present in the future.

When: Thursday, June 22, 2023
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., ET

Hosted by the Justice Clearinghouse and the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing, this webinar discusses how to analyze and understand homicide and gun violence. This session will set out:
•    The key varieties of homicide and gun violence.
•    The concentration of victimization and offending.
•    How victimization and offending overlap.
•    The key role of groups and networks.
•    The central role of police and other criminal justice agencies in understanding homicide and gun violence.

When: Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m., ET

Hosted by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), this podcast features three LEAD (Law Enforcement Advancing Date and Science) scholars serving in different law enforcement agencies and positions who will discuss their experiences with identifying and implementing evidence-based interventions to reduce gun violence.  NIJ Senior Advisor Dr. Tamara Herold hosts this conversation with guests Police Chief Cecilia Ashe (Milford Delaware Police Department), Chief of Staff Lieutenant Matthew Barter (Manchester, New Hampshire, Police Department) and Analytical Services Manager Mr. Jason Schiess (Durham, North Carolina, Police Department).  LEADS is designed to increase the research capabilities of law enforcement professionals and agencies. Since 2014, yearly cohorts of selected policing professionals have been provided with access to programming that connects current and emerging police leaders with evidence-based research to advance justice. Learn about more about these LEADS scholars, their challenges and triumphs, and how they embraced science to tackle gun crime in their jurisdictions.