February 15-18, 2022
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Following our highly successful virtual conference in February 2021, the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police and the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-based Policing are pleased to partner with the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police on this 4-day virtual conference focused on Evidence-Based Policing (EBP).
EBP is a way of looking at police decision-making that moves beyond traditional police assumptions about what works in carrying out policing duties and activities. Just as community safety and well-being strategies guide us in strategically planning how to better invest policing resources to maximize returns when it comes to public safety, EBP provides a toolkit to support police professionals in designing the most effective crime prevention, disruption, and reduction services to fight crime, violence, and victimization.
As police professionals across the world navigate complex and challenging socio-political climates, police leaders at every rank and position need to understand how EBP can expand their thinking and collective mindset to inspirationally and organizationally move law enforcement organizations from outputs- to outcomes-driven work.
During this conference, you will join with other police professionals and gain expert insights on the evolution of EBP from prominent Canadian, American, and other EBP researchers and police leaders about the latest evidence-based policing research and strategies to reduce crime and disorder and enhance community well-being and police legitimacy.
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Conference Format:
This is a virtual conference to be held on the Zoom platform.
The first three days of the conference will be focused on EBP’s traditional 3Ts of EBP:
- Targeting – Place-based
- Testing – Victim-based
- Tracking – Offender-based
We are excited that this year, we have dedicated the final day of the conference to the crime analysis and it’s critical role in EBP.
Who should attend?
If you are passionate about community safety and well-being, crime prevention, and reducing victimization and want to learn why EBP is emerging as a major influential change agent in international policing, this conference is for you:
- Senior Police Leaders
- Police Managers
- Crime Analysts
- Front-line police officer
- Policy-makers in the law enforcement/justice sectors
Registration:
FULL CONFERENCE
(February 15-18, 2022)
$175.00 + HST* (CAD)
Registrants will receive:
- Full access to all conference sessions
- Access to recording of all sessions
- Exclusive access to EBP resources
* Only those that register to attend will be permitted access. The conference will be held via the Zoom platform. A joining link will be sent to all registered participants less than 24 hours prior to the conference.
CRIME ANALYSIS SESSIONS ONLY
(February 18, 2022)
$75.00 + HST** (CAD)
Day 4 Registrants will receive:
- Access to Day 4 sessions
- Access to recording of Day 4 sessions only
- Access to Day 4 resources only
** We are providing an option for registrants to register and attend on Day four only (crime analysis sessions). Please note that registrants will have access to Day Four recording/resources, but not the recording/resources for the first three days. A joining link will be sent to registered participants less than 24 hours prior to Day 4.
Speaker Line-up:
*Please Note: All times are scheduled in Eastern Standard Time.
Tuesday, February 15 - "Targeting" - Place-based
Major Frederick Fife
New Jersey State Police
Precision Policing
Dr. Joel Caplan
Professor and M.A. Program Director at Rutgers University
Risk Terrain Modeling for Risk-Based Policing
Crime prevention efforts require strong capacities for collaborative problem-solving and coordination of multiple stakeholders. Practical case studies will show how to use Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) for data-informed crime prevention strategies that maximize existing local resources at the places that need them most. You will learn how to turn data into ‘risk narratives’ that connect situational contexts with crime patterns and that spur prevention initiatives that meets community expectations. We will discuss how police can share the burden of crime prevention with community partners and how to enhance public safety, even with limited resources.
Renee Mitchell
President, American Society of Evidence Based Policing
Hotspots as a Deployment Model
An example from Grand Prairie Texas on how to target places using your data.
Wednesday, February 16 - "Testing" - Victim-based
London Police Service
Victim Choice Reporting
In an era of policing where legitimacy and service delivery are being called into question, the London Police Service (LPS) has decided to respond by exploring new ways in which it can provide equitable and timely service to victims of intimate partner violence.
The LPS’s Patrol Modernization Project is a unit whose mandate is the integration of evidence-based ideas within the framework of its practical daily operations. Compelling research coming from the Cambridge University’s Applied Criminology and Police Management program recently revealed that offering victims a choice between a traditional physical police response and a virtual response yields significant benefits for both victims of crime, and for the police budget. The LPS is currently working on providing virtual response capabilities and then tracking its outcomes to ensure success.
This presentation is designed to introduce police services to the paths they can take to implement empirical research findings into practice.
Lieutenant Matt Barter
Manchester Police Department, New Hampshire
Why Do We Need To Test This?
A Police/Public Health Evaluation of Opioid Overdose Outreach Efforts and a Cop’s Perspective of Testing New Initiatives
In June 2021, The Manchester Police and Health Departments began a collaborative opioid overdose outreach initiative. The core concept of the program is harm reduction, with a goal of reducing opioid overdose fatalities. Manchester, New Hampshire has been hit hard by the opioid epidemic and an innovative public safety / public health response was identified as a potential means to reduce fatalities. The program shares police data of individuals who have recently overdosed to drive outreach efforts. In addition, a social network analysis of individuals involved in overdose incidents was used to proactively connect with key individuals in an attempt to promote harm reduction within the largest network. Ongoing evaluation of the initiative has been key to determining efficacy to inform future policy decisions. This presentation will provide the police perspective of the benefits, challenges, and real-world use of testing new initiatives.
Inspector Dan Jones
Edmonton Police Service
Crime Severity in the Identification of Offenders
Inspector Jones will be discussing the use of Crime Severity in the Identification of Offenders as well as the need to better understand who the justice client is.
Thursday, February 17 - "Tracking" - Offender-based
Dr. Matt Bland
Cambridge Centre for Evidence-based Policing
Varieties of Domestic Abusers
Reports to police of domestic abuse have grown around the world in recent years. In response, there has been expanding focus on targeting the perpetrators of abuse but to date, there has been sparse evidence to support different approaches. In this session, Cambridge University’s Dr Matt Bland, author of Targeting Domestic Abuse with Police Data, will discuss the use of harm weighting to track and classify offenders of domestic abuse, and what might be done with suspects once they have been classified.
Detective Constable Daniel Connelly
Guelph Police Service
Utilizing Network Analysis for Target Prioritization
An brief overview of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and utilizing a network approach to assist with target prioritization in drug trafficking investigations through the analysis of transmission data records.
Captain Jason Potts
Vallejo Police Department
10 Essential Actions Cities Can Take to Reduce Violence Now
As 2022 begins, America’s cities face a surge in violent crime, particularly homicide. The Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) documented a 30% rise in murders nationwide in 2020, while police data from large cities reveal another 7% increase in 2021. Policymakers and practitioners need solutions now. In response to the crisis, CCJ launched a Violent Crime Working Group in July 2021. Group members have identified Ten Essential Actions cities can immediately take to reduce gun violence in their streets.
Friday, February 18 - "Crime Analysis"
Cliff Aguiar
Director, Ontario Crime Analysis Network
The New Role of Crime Analysts Today
The evolution of the crime analysis role cannot be undermined in light of its organic progression, but further due to the number of challenges facing law enforcement recruitment and budgeting challenges. Crime analysis is not only effective for intelligence led policing, however, its place in investigative analysis is misunderstood and underrated. The tension that exists in tolerating the development/evolution of the role in policing while reviewing the internal financial, ideological, but also the societal benefits will be explored. Finally, process management and the road map for the crime analysis evolution is identified.
Maria McWilliams
Madison Charman
Paula Curry
Sergeant Randy Fitzgerald
Barrie Police Service
How to Build a Weighted Crime Harm Index
Leveraging the Canadian Crime Severity Index, the Barrie Police’s weighted model (The Canadian Harm Index) identifies areas of high crime volume and high crime harm to deploy our resources effectively and efficiently where they are most needed. The Barrie Police is piloting a deployment model that leverages innovative technology and dashboards to deploy our new Community Safety and Well-being Team based on these identified hot & harm spots.
Sumit Kumar
Cambridge Centre for Evidence-based Policing
Analyzing and Prioritizing Serious Offenders
The concept of a Crime Harm Index (CHI) is a major shift in the way police analyze crime statistics. Without a clear introduction, many police professionals may see the concept of CHI as abstract, and remain sceptical about its practical application in policing. In this session, a Cambridge criminologist will demonstrate how crime analysts can use the Crime Harm Index (CHI) for several very practical purposes: 1) to identify the 'power few' offenders who cause the most harm in any community, which analysts can do using simple Excel commands, and 2) use the same commands to identify the most harmed victims and highest-harm hot spots.
Members of the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness (NJOHSP)
Michael Lychock, Supervising Investigator
Intelligence Management Bureau
Mathew Chrusz, Intelligence Analyst
Analysis Bureau
New Jersey’s Suspicious Activity Reporting System and Predictive Threat Analysis
How are law enforcement organizations in New Jersey working together and using evidence-based policing to investigate and prevent acts of terrorism and significant threats to public safety?
In this session, representatives from the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness will outline New Jersey’s unique suspicious activity reporting system, the collection process, the importance of law enforcement involvement, and the state’s three-year predictive threat analysis.
Christopher O'Connor
Ontario Tech University
Analysts' Experiences Working in Canadian Policing
As policing becomes increasingly data-focused, analysts working in police services play an essential role in making sense of the data that’s collected. This session examines the experiences of analysts working in Canadian police services. It discusses the types of data work analysts routinely engage in, their perspectives on data quality, and whether they thought their work was valued and understood by their police services. The session concludes by discussing the implications of these findings for evidence-based policing.