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The National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund invites you to livestream the Annual Virtual Candlelight Vigil” on Wednesday, May 13, at 8 p.m. ET. The Candlelight Vigil will honor law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty.
This year, 307 names are being engraved on the walls of the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington, DC, adding to the nearly 22,000 killed in the line of duty already memorialized there.
Join the National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund along with law enforcement leaders, celebrities, U.S. officials, and American icons as they come together to pay tribute to our fallen law enforcement officers in a livestreamed Candlelight Vigil.
The “Victim Counsel Coordination Part II: Preserving Victims’ Rights” webinar is now available on the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s YouTube page. This was the final installment in the “Victim Counsel Coordination” webinar series, supported by the Association of Prosecuting Attorney’s Capital Case Litigation Initiative.
The Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Team is continuing their new interview series, Meet the SAKI Experts! This series of brief interviews will highlight SAKI TTA’s partners and consultants and their roles on the SAKI project. During each event, a member of the SAKI TTA Team will conduct a virtual interview with the featured subject matter expert.
The Council of State Governments Justice Center, with support from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, released the brief “How to Reduce Repeat Encounters: A Brief for Law Enforcement Executives,” which highlights four steps that law enforcement leaders should implement to effectively respond to individuals they repeatedly encounter.
Mobile devices dominate the intake list and the desks of most digital forensics analysts globally. With an increase in device security, the need for detailed analysis is also increasing. SQLite is a self-contained, serverless database engine. It is found on nearly every operating system and dominates iOS, Android, and macOS as one of the most prevalent and relevant data storage mechanisms. Rather than hope our forensic tools support the newest applications or be tethered to how a certain utility parses data, analysts can arm themselves with the skills and techniques needed to conquer the analysis of nearly any application.
This course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills they need to investigate crimes involving virtual currency. Instructors explain foundational concepts like the characteristics of money, virtual currency, and cryptocurrency. Blockchain technology, proof work, and proof of stake are covered, and students learn how industry-leading cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero) work and how they differ from each other. Finally, students learn investigative techniques for tracking and documenting transactions and best practices for seizing and securing cryptocurrency.
This course introduces the information and techniques law enforcement personnel need to safely and methodically collect and preserve digital evidence at a crime scene. Topics include recognizing potential sources of digital evidence; planning and executing a digital evidence-based seizure; and the preservation, packaging, documentation, and transfer of digital evidence.
The Bureau of Justice Assistance is seeking provider applications for their Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Supporting Small and Rural Law Enforcement Agency Body-Worn Camera (BWC) Policy and Implementation Program, which provides small and rural agencies funding to implement and expand BWC programs.
This webinar is designed to provide an overview of technology and ethics, as well as justice professionals’ use of social media websites. We will review the moral concepts of goodness, right, and obligation, and the ways in which they operate in the workplace.
These concepts are further enhanced during the questions posed during the webinar and chatroom discussions. Additionally, this training is designed to provide participants with a review of some ethical dilemmas that can arise in the workplace. During this webinar, we will:
