Hosted by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), this podcast features Ed Flynn, who discusses his experience over his 47-year career in small towns, big cities, and as the Director of Public Safety for Massachusetts as it related to leadership. The unyielding and ”around-the-clock” demands placed on law enforcement departments and officers create an unavoidable draw to become engrossed with focusing on responses to crime and disorder— rather than on solutions.  Ed Flynn is among a cadre of prominent voices in law enforcement who serve as a constant reminder that impactful solutions require looking upstream and developing sound strategies instead of simply chasing the tail of crime. 

Hosted by the Justice Clearinghouse, this webinar will discuss the importance of community crisis response.  After the creation of a community crisis response within your law enforcement agency, how do you manage the programs and balance issues that arise? Is there an appropriate time to completely change a response if your evaluation shows it is not effective? This webinar will discuss the unique challenges of these programs within law enforcement and the unique need to consider program changes to address the community or funding options as they change. Finally, the webinar will look at the possible evolution of social services and legal options to remove law enforcement from crisis response.

When: Thursday, July 27, 2023
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., ET

Hosted by the Aequitas, this in-person training is designed to challenge participants to reevaluate their approaches to prosecuting sexual assault. The Institute is grounded in a multidisciplinary, victim-centered response to sexual violence and encourages participants to expand their concepts of justice in these cases by balancing victim autonomy with offender accountability and community safety. Participants will explore and respond to challenges in a wide variety of sexual violence scenarios, including but not limited to:

• Assaults perpetrated by intimate partners, acquaintances, strangers, serial offenders, and cross-over offenders
• Cases involving co-occurring offenses, such as stalking, domestic violence, and witness intimidation
• Cold cases
• Assaults perpetrated with alcohol and/or drug
• Technology-facilitated abuse, including image exploitation

Hosted by the United States Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC), this virtual school safety training will share key findings and implications from decades of research on school violence. Topics will include the background, thinking, and behavior of school attackers, how some schools discovered and stopped plots before violence occurred, and guidance on implementing school safety protocols to reduce the risk of violence in our school communities. This free virtual event is appropriate for educators, administrators, counselors, mental health professionals, law enforcement officers, and other school safety stakeholders. 

When: Thursday, August 24, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., ET 

On Thursday, June 29, 2023, the U.S Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the opening of the application period for federally recognized tribes and intertribal consortia to participate in the Tribal Access Program (TAP) for National Crime Information, which improves public safety by giving federally recognized tribes the ability to access and exchange data with national crime information databases for authorized criminal justice and noncriminal justice purposes, such as the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).