Funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), this toolkit serves as an online educational toolkit with strategies, guidance, and links to resources on preventing and responding to mass attacks. Mass public attacks, whether personally or ideologically motivated, cause much concern and fear. Nonetheless, you can often take actions to prevent, defend against, and respond to them. A recent NIJ-funded research project analyzed over 600 mass attack plots, hundreds of articles and resources, and dozens of expert interviews to develop the Mass Attacks Defense Toolkit. 

Published by the Justice Clearinghouse, this webinar discusses the importance of dispatch communications during significant and/or large-scale incidents. Dispatch plays an integral role and is the original incident command, but they are often left out during training exercises. Agencies must approach training for these incidents as they would the real thing, and this includes determining the role dispatch plays and how they can best interact with those in the field. During this webinar, the presenters will discuss dispatch’s role as incident command and steps to take to prepare for handling these incidents more effectively with other public safety partners.

When: Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., ET

Published by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), this article spotlights the Preventing Violence Against Law Enforcement and Ensuring Officer Resilience and Survivability (VALOR) Safer Together training program, an initiative aimed at building positive partnerships between police officers and the communities they serve to reduce crime and ensure safety and wellness for all. Community safety doesn’t start with a traffic stop—it begins with building trust. That’s just one of the lessons Lieutenant James Jefferson III of the Louisiana State Police learned from the VALOR Safer Together training program. There are three trainings available: frontline officer training, a command-level training, and an executive briefing. Lieutenant Jefferson attended the eight-hour training course for frontline officers which stresses building trust, one interaction at a time, as a foundational basis to improve community climate, reduce crime, and boost officer well-being. The article describes more about the training and its importance as well as Lieutenant Jefferson’s takeaways after attending this training. 

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and hosted by the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) Program, this presentation focuses on the importance of threat assessment and threat management (TATM) teams as a means of preventing or mitigating the risk of targeted violence and is suitable for law enforcement leaders who are contemplating the creation of TATM teams in their jurisdictions, and for criminal justice personnel seeking to increase their knowledge of TATM concepts as a means of protecting their communities. The webinar is part of the BJA SLATT Program’s continued effort to prepare law enforcement officers and criminal justice practitioners to ethically identify, investigate, prevent, and respond to acts of terrorism, targeted violence, and hate crimes. 

When: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m., ET

Published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), this report details ongoing and completed efforts during 2022 and 2023 to measure and analyze the nationwide incidence of human trafficking, to describe characteristics of human trafficking victims and offenders, and to describe criminal justice responses to human trafficking offenses. The report also provides information on human trafficking suspects referred to and prosecuted by U.S. attorneys, human trafficking defendants convicted and sentenced to federal prison, and admissions to state prison for human trafficking.