Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council

The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently launched the National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center (the Center), which will provide training and technical assistance to law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations, and behavioral health professionals responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others. The newly launched website will provide direct access to critical information to help reduce firearm homicides and suicides. The website will be updated to include newly developed resources for the field created through the Center, in partnership with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). The website also provides a platform for the Center to highlight emerging and promising practices in successful ERPO implementation and connect states and localities to innovative strategies to reduce gun violence and save lives.

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and hosted by Safer Schools, this webinar will allow attendees to explore the correlation between student engagement and school safety while learning practical strategies to improve engagement, including the application of cultural intelligence and trauma-informed responses. This webinar is funded under BJA’s STOP School Violence Program and was developed to aid school resource officers and other school-based security professionals in completing their essential role of providing a safe and secure environment that promotes student success. A fundamental principle in providing for this safety is developing positive student-officer engagement aimed at building relationships that support school safety through prevention and intervention, thereby reducing the need for criminal enforcement action.

Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., ET

Published by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), this article was developed to identify similarities and differences in the context of domestic violent extremism and terrorism. Gaining a better understanding of any links or overlaps between people who perpetrate these types of violence and those engaged in violent extremism and terrorism is essential to developing or adapting targeted violence prevention efforts. This article reviews findings from several NIJ-supported projects that explore similarities and differences between:

• Violent extremists and individuals who are involved in gangs.
• People who engage in terrorism and those involved in human trafficking.
• Lone-actor terrorists (that is, single individuals whose terrorist acts are not directed or supported by any group or other individuals) and persons who commit nonideological mass murder.

Some of these projects draw on large national databases of individuals who are known to have committed violent acts, while others explore community and stakeholder perceptions of the acts. In addition, some of these projects focus on how communities that contend with heightened risk factors, such as adversity and disadvantage, experience certain types of violence. The article closes with a discussion of possible implications for policy and future research.

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), the Analysis Toolkit was designed to serve as a clearinghouse for publicly available crime and intelligence analysis resources. The Analysis Toolkit contains several case studies that were the result of the Nationwide Crime Analysis Capability Building Project, which was initiated by BJA to identify and evaluate promising practices to assist jurisdictions in enhancing their crime analysis capacity. The toolkit also hosts several resources related to law enforcement training and information sharing.

Published by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), this policy briefing paper surveys the ways in which technologies under the umbrella of artificial intelligence may interact with democracy and—specifically—extremism, mis-/disinformation, and illegal and ‘legal but harmful’ content online.