Hosted by the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) , this webinar will showcase wellness programs offered to law enforcement officers before and after critical incidents to mitigate the impacts of acute stress and trauma. Law enforcement is a stressful profession; however, critical incidents in policing, such as witnessing death, abuse, and gruesome crime scenes, are the pinnacle of trauma that officers endure in their line of work. Critical incidents have cumulative effects that adversely impact all facets of an officer’s life. Such incidents can produce physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral reactions that negatively affect officers’ wellness and ability to fulfill their duties. While critical incidents are inherent in policing, agencies have implemented wellness programming to help officers both prepare for and recover from these incidents.

Date: Thursday, March 14, 2024
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., ET

The American Society of Evidence–Based Policing (ASEBP) and Justice Clearinghouse (JCH) are hosting an upcoming webinar. In this webinar, Dr. Renee Mitchell discusses how policing data on its face can be misleading. She discusses why media outlets and researchers who conduct secondary data analyses often make incorrect assumptions about the data. She argues that often, we as police practitioners also get it wrong. If police organizations want to take a stand against the media or outside groups twisting policing data to fit their narratives, then practitioners must also practice good data and statistical hygiene. This is the first in a series that will explain a better way to think about your data that can elevate your organization beyond the 1990 CompStat model.

Date: Thursday, March 7, 2024
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m., ET

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and hosted by the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), this course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to perform a limited digital forensic examination, validate hardware and software tools, and effectively use digital forensic suites and specialized tools. The course begins with a detailed explanation of the digital forensic examination process, including documentation, case management, evidence handling, validation, and virtualization. Students learn to use today's leading commercial and open-source digital forensic suites: Magnet Axiom,® X-Ways Forensics,™ and Autopsy.® Instruction on each suite will include an interface overview, configuration, hashing, file signature analysis, keyword searching, data carving, bookmarking, and report creation.

Date: Monday, March 4  ̶  Thursday, March 7, 2024
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., ET

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and hosted by the Center for Task Force Training (CenTF), CenTF is pleased to present the second podcast of a five-part series titled “Proactive Policing in Today’s Society for Multijurisdictional and Specialty Enforcement Units.” Podcast two, titled “Use of Force Policy Considerations,” explores the judicial foundations of current use-of-force policy and looks at the development of use-of-force policy over time, providing guidance on what task force commanders can do to help ensure that their task force policies are in compliance. The session also exposes areas in which task force commanders can and should consider collaboration to help ensure the success of their task forces. In this episode, expert guidance is provided by subject-matter experts Kenneth (“Ken”) Razza, opiate diversion investigator and methamphetamine investigation coordinator with the Anti-Crime Unit at the Buncombe County, North Carolina, Sheriff’s Department, and constitutional policing author Thomas (“Tom”) Martinelli, JD, MS. The podcast is moderated by experienced CenTF trainer Thomas (“Tom”) Datro, sergeant and officer in charge of the Los Angeles, California, Police Department’s Training Division. To listen to the podcast and learn more about what agencies can do to better serve and support the officers and the communities they protect, use the following link: Use of Force Policy Considerations podcast. Viewers will be prompted to first register for a CenTF account or to log in using an existing account. To listen to all the podcasts released to date, use the following link──Proactive Policing in Today’s Society for Multijurisdictional and Specialty Enforcement Units.

Published by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) this report presents a synthesis of select findings from NIJ-supported research projects on public mass shootings, including school mass shootings, and identifies areas of need and interest for future research and recommendations.