The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released its new report on internet crime in 2022.  The growth of cybercrime is a threat to networks, critical infrastructure, and financial institutions in the United States and around the world.  These threats produce major economic and national security effects.   The FBI commits to assisting the victims of cybercrimes and working to combat these crimes. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), established in May 2000, serves as a public resource to report cybercrime.  The IC3 collects data and analyzes it for crime trends to understand threats to the public and the economy.

The Institute for Economics and Peace has released the tenth edition of the GTI report.  The GTI represents a comprehensive study analyzing the impact of terrorism on 163 countries, which covers 99.7 percent of the world’s population.  For its analysis, the GTI uses the TerrorismTracker database, which records “every terrorist incident reported in open sources since January 2007.”  Using this data, the GTI creates a terrorism impact score on a scale of 0 to 10 for every country in the study: a score of 0 representing no impact and a score of 10 meaning very high impact. For 2022, Afghanistan once again had the highest impact score (8.822), whereas the United States was ranked 30th with a score of 4.799.  Other key findings show that globally, deaths from terrorism declined in 2022 by 9 percent, and the number of attacks declined as well by 28 percent.  However, in 2022 terrorist attacks were more deadly, and on average 26 percent more people died per attack.  This marks the first increase in lethality rate in five years.  This year’s GTI also contains a section focusing on the Sahel region in Sub-Saharan Africa.  This region accounts for more deaths caused by terrorism than South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) combined.  From 2007 to 2022, the number of terrorism deaths in the Sahel region has increased by a startling 2,000 percent, with zero indication that this trend may reverse.

Hosted by the Justice Clearinghouse, this webinar discusses the human element of leading and working within a disaster/emergency response incident command system.   We will discuss how individuals and agencies might collaborate, communicate, coordinate, cooperate, and function as a highly efficient and effective unified command.  We will look at the role preparedness plays including preplanning and training.
 
When: Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., ET

Hosted by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), this podcast features David Stoney, chief scientist and head of Stoney Forensic in Chantilly, Virginia; Greg Dutton, program manager and physical scientist with NIJ’s Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences; and host Jim Dawson to discuss the concerted effort in many fields of forensics—ballistics, trace evidence, fingerprints, and more—to improve the science underlying forensic evidence in the wake of the 2009 report.  The scientific basis of several aspects of forensic evidence was first called into question by the 2009 National Research Council report.  That report had an immediate impact on law enforcement, crime labs, courtrooms, and the broader scientific community. 

Published by The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center, this report updates and supplements previous reports by the CCJ on recent U.S. crime trends with additional crime data through December 2022.  It examines monthly crime rates for ten violent, property, and drug offenses in 35 American cities.  The 35 cities are not necessarily representative of all U.S. cities. Not all cities reported data for each offense, and the data used to measure the crime trends are subject to revision by local jurisdictions.