Law Enforcement

In the early 1980s, the Los Angeles, California Police Department (LAPD) developed a homicide investigation case file structure, entitled the Murder Book, to bring organization and standardization to homicide case files. The uniform structure of the Murder Book allows anyone involved in a homicide investigation, including detectives, supervisors, and prosecutors, to review and locate key investigative reports, photos, and other materials in a standardized manner.

The Bureau of Justice Assistance's Center for Task Force Training Program's "Operations Planning and Confidential Source Management" March 2 webinar will discuss why it is important to assess and manage risk and will explore the unique risks, dynamics, and options involved in field operations. In addition, it will explain how the roles of the task force commander, unit supervisors, and task force members contribute to maintaining the safety and integrity of a successful task force.

On February 28, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. ET, the Strategies for Policing Innovation (SPI) program will present a webinar on “Successful Strategies to Reduce Gun Violence.” This webinar will focus on the use of offender-based strategies and crime intelligence to target gun-related violence, highlighting successful SPI sites addressing this issue.

Addressing the opioid epidemic at scale requires the coordination of health and social services professionals, law enforcement, criminal justice, and academic and government policy experts. These coordination efforts will rely on the sharing of precision data to help analyze trends and patterns of local and regional opioid drug abuse. Microsoft has put its Cloud and associated technologies at the ready to support all government jurisdictions as well as health, social services, and law enforcement agencies to combat this health services and social services challenge.