Published by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), this IACP publication contains multiple articles that discuss various topics related to human trafficking. Individuals of all ages, genders, ethnicities, and socioeconomic statuses can be affected by the crime of human trafficking.  Traffickers need only three things to succeed—vulnerable victims, willing buyers, and inconsistent enforcement.  Myriad structural, cultural, and institutional barriers can prevent law enforcement from successfully identifying and disrupting human trafficking.  This issue provides models and strategies that agencies have found successful in addressing labor and sex trafficking in their jurisdictions.

Hosted by the National Law Enforcement Roadway Safety Program (NLERSP) and funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, this virtual workshop will help participants lead their agencies in roadway safety.  This is a no-cost, four-hour, executive course in which attendees will participate in discussions with other mid-level and executive-level officers about how to increase officer safety during roadway operations. 

When: Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., ET

Published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, this report describes BJS’s activities during 2021 and 2022 to collect data and report on human trafficking as required by the Combat Human Trafficking Act of 2015 (34 U.S.C. § 20709(e)).  It details ongoing and completed efforts to measure and analyze the nationwide incidence of human trafficking, describe characteristics of human trafficking victims and offenders, and depict criminal justice responses to human trafficking offenses.  In addition, the report provides information on human trafficking suspects referred to and prosecuted by U.S. attorneys, human trafficking defendants convicted in U.S. district court, and admissions to state prison for human trafficking.

Hosted by the Justice Clearinghouse and the American Jail Association, this is Part One of a two-part webinar series that addresses a major problem in corrections, specifically, the manipulation of correctional staff members by criminal offenders.  All correctional staff members, including at juvenile and adult institutions and community corrections facilities (probation and parole), are targets for the offender manipulator.  Also targeted are people who try to help offenders and staff programs such as mental health, substance abuse, volunteer, chaplains’ staff, medical, food service, and maintenance personnel.  This webinar is designed to get staff members thinking about who they are dealing with and how manipulation can destroy professional lives, careers, and the public trust.  To guard against manipulators, corrections staff members must know their adversaries.

When: Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m., ET

Funded by the National Institute of Corrections, this documentary follows six individuals as they navigate the winding road from incarceration across state lines to community supervision closer to home.  They are transfer candidates of the Interstate Compact, a collection of regulations and rules guiding the movement of individuals who have been incarcerated miles from home.  The compact gives these individuals the chance to serve the remainder of their sentences among family and social supports, which has been shown to have a positive effect on reducing the likelihood that an individual will commit future crimes.  This one-hour documentary tells the story of the compact through the lives of men and women from around the country as they navigate the transfer process in real time.  Each person has a different story, a different crime, and unusual circumstances that affect his or her eligibility to transfer based on compact rules. Connecting the film to the past and future of criminal justice are interviews with correctional leaders who maintain and are variously involved with the compact. Featured are representatives from the state and local correctional agencies from which the transfer candidates originate, executives from the Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision (ICAOS), and present and former staff members of the NIC.