Hosted by the Justice Clearinghouse and the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing, this webinar will discuss burnout, identified as a key factor in the law enforcement exodus crisis.  Burnout is an organizational issue, caused by long-term unmanaged stress, which can create not only extreme emotional exhaustion but cynicism.  This can lead officers to disengage from their work and ultimately leave the force prematurely.  The webinar will outline the causes and symptoms of burnout and identify how, as an organizational issue, it differs from compassion fatigue, which is often due to operational policing causes.  Burnout is different from stress and compassion fatigue, and, as such, requires a different approach.  The talk aims to provide insights into solutions that individual officers as well as leaders can help put in place to reengage their officers, increase officer well-being and mental health, and motivate officers to stay in the force.

When: Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m., ET

Published by the National White-Collar Crime Center and funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, this webinar will teach the skills needed to conduct investigations using social media. Students will learn about the different social media companies and how their information can assist in investigations using a court order or open-source intelligence techniques.  A case study will be presented on a case that was solved using Internet-based investigations and social media. Students will be provided with a copy of the presentation and search warrant templates for social media records.

When: Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m., ET

The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) has recently developed an online toolkit to aid the U.S. research enterprise in protecting against potential threats.  The toolkit provides stakeholders with a range of resources (such as training, best practices, videos, awareness materials, policy references, etc.) to help protect their research and technology from threats of theft, misuse, or exploitation.

Hosted by the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Academic Training Initiative to Inform Police Responses, this webinar will provide an overview of the roles of behavioral health peer support specialists across the criminal justice system, discuss the newer role of peer support specialists in crisis response, and provide examples of how peer support specialists are trained and embedded in teams of professionals tasked with responding to crisis calls in the community.  In addition, this webinar will consider how people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) might be integrated into similar peer support roles to enhance crisis responses to people with IDD.

Time: Thursday, December 8, 2022
When: 1:00 p.m., ET

Published by the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, this report is a result of three years of investigation by the Majority Committee staff for U.S. Senator Gary Peters into domestic terrorism and the federal response.  After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the federal government focused primarily on the threat of international terrorism.  However, since this shift in focus more than 20 years ago, domestic terrorist attacks in the United States have drastically increased.  The expansion of social media has played a large role, leading to the recruitment, dissemination, and coordination of domestic terrorists and extremists.  The report examines four major social media companies: Meta (formerly known as Facebook), TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube. Although these social media companies have made an effort to remove violative content, their focus has been predominately on growth and user engagement.  The investigation finds that the federal government, specifically the FBI and DHS, have not adequately tracked and reported data on domestic terrorism incidents, given the vast amount of pervasive content that companies have had to remove. Furthermore, the FBI and DHS have not clarified their classifications and definitions to make their investigations consistent in combating this growing threat.