On July 21, 2022, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steven M. Dettelbach were briefed by senior ATF officials on ongoing efforts to help reduce gun violence through the disruption of illegal firearms trafficking in key regions across the country.  In July 2021, the department announced the formation of cross-jurisdictional strike forces to help reduce gun violence by disrupting illegal firearms trafficking in key regions across the country.  ATF Special Agents in Charge described the strike forces’ work on several high-impact investigations that identified and prosecuted individuals who illegally trafficked firearms from source cities, through other communities, and into major urban areas where they were often discovered at crime scenes or in the possession of violent actors.

Funded by the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, this hour-long discussion will include a brief overview of the Portland train attack case, presented by moderator Jeff Howes, First Assistant of the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office.  A group discussion about hate crimes and high-profile cases will follow.  Participants are encouraged to bring their own issues, cases, and questions to the discussion.  The goal of the session is to bring together capital case and complex homicide prosecutors to discuss a variety of emerging issues and topics; to explore ideas together and arrive at solutions; and to connect individuals to resources and a larger network of prosecutors.

When: Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m., ET

Hosted by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and funded by the Office on Trafficking in Persons through the Administration for Children and Families, this webinar will discuss how professionals working with and serving communities at risk of human trafficking increasingly use public health strategies to establish evidence-informed, data-driven responses to human trafficking. The research discussed in the webinar expands the current evidence base and highlights the strengths of using a public health approach when preventing and responding to human trafficking.

When: Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., ET

Hosted by the Justice Clearinghouse and funded by the International Association of Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA), this webinar will combine SOCMINT and OSINT techniques to develop an intelligence-gathering strategy at the project level that includes other pillars of intelligence, such as GEOINT, MASINT, HUMINT and SIGINT.  Documentation, collection, and reporting approaches will be presented along with best practices to meet various objectives and for various agencies.  Also, ethics and policy will be examined with consideration for personal information in the aggregate when conducting SOCMINT/OSINT investigations. Participants will gain the knowledge to develop a strategy, a framework, and methods and will select supporting tools to stand up and conduct a SOCMINT/OSINT-driven project encompassing social network analysis.

When: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., ET

Published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), this report provides the latest findings on fatal and nonfatal crimes that occurred in the workplace or away from work over work-related issues. Findings are presented for 13 indicators of workplace violence, using data from five federal data collections.  The study found that, over a 27-year period from 1992 to 2019, nearly 18,000 persons were killed at work, on duty, or in violence that was work-related, using data from BLS’s Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries.  Homicides in the workplace peaked at 1,080 homicides in 1994 and dropped to 454 in 2019, a decline of 58 percent. During a more recent period from 2014 (409 homicides) to 2019, workplace homicides increased by 11 percent.