Published by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), this online tool provides stakeholders with information on the resources needed to help prepare for and prevent targeted violence and terrorism across our country.  Within each of the below categories, users can search keywords for relevant resources and filter the results based on Department/Agency/Organization and Key Audience.

Published by Europol, this report analyzes a number of workshops held by subject-matter experts on the positive and negative potential of ChatGPT. The report emphasizes that law enforcement must be prepared for the negative impacts of this artificial intelligence system. Although OpenAI has included many safeguards on ChatGPT to prevent malicious use, they can be easily bypassed through prompt engineering. An unprecedented amount of available data is used by criminals to learn about topics such as potential crime areas, how to break into a house, terrorism, and cybercrime. In addition, ChatGPTs ability to create human-like text makes it a highly useful tool for phishing attempts. Whereas phishing scams were previously detectable by grammatical and spelling errors, artificial intelligence now makes it possible to impersonate an individual in a more realistic manner.

Hosted by the Justice Clearinghouse and the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing, this webinar discusses how the Seattle Police Department is using a CompStat-style accountability forum focused on the continuous monitoring of measures of Equity, Accountability, and Quality (EAQ). Seattle PD is utilizing a risk management approach to leverage measures of disparate outcomes in Terry stops, over- and under policing of communities, and service quality for awareness, mitigation, and continuous improvement. The discussion will also include SPD’s collaboration with RTI International as an external quality assurance and evaluation partner to assist with the implementation of its EAQ program and next steps in project implementation.

When: Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m., ET 

Funded by the National Institute of Justice and hosted by the Forensic Technology Center of Excellence, this webinar discusses lawfully owed DNA procedures that have an immeasurable impact on the criminal justice system.  Procedures do not affect just one discipline in the forensic science and criminal justice community, but rather the entire system, requiring a holistic approach.  Collecting lawfully owed DNA presents numerous tasks for jurisdictions, including (a) identifying convicted offenders and arrestees who should have their DNA in CODIS but do not, (b) collecting and processing DNA samples promptly, (c) ensuring that the DNA samples are entered into CODIS, and (d) investigating the resulting CODIS forensic hits.  Once these tasks are accomplished, jurisdictions must also consistently collaborate across agencies to ensure that swabs are lawfully collected and do not continue to fall through the cracks.  Unfortunately, many jurisdictions experience procedural roadblocks, which result in heavy backlogs and unsolved crimes.  In some cases, this means offenders remain free to commit more crimes, and crimes with DNA evidence remain unsolved.  To help address these issues, beginning in FY2016, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) added to the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) Purpose Area 3: the collection of lawfully owed DNA. SAKI’s first lawfully owed grantee, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, led by the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office (CCPO), received funding to collect lawfully owed DNA in its jurisdiction. 

When: Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., ET

Hosted by the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, this webinar discusses how big a problem elder financial abuse is in the United States. Billions of dollars are being stolen from elder victims each year. While the scammers are mostly overseas, there is a black-market economy of gift cards, cash, and cryptocurrency flourishing within the United States. Sadly, when the thousands of victims each year report these crimes to the police, they are told, “Sorry, there is nothing we can do.” The San Diego Elder Justice Task Force (EJTF) set out to answer the question, “What COULD we do?” The EJTF is an unprecedented collaboration by local and federal agencies led by the FBI, the District Attorney’s Office, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the local San Diego U.S. Attorney’s Office. By investigating these cases locally, the EJTF has revealed a road map for combating these scams, highlighted recently by a first-of-its-kind Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) indictment by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

When: Thursday, April 20, 2023
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., ET