Training Delivery - Webinar

    Investigating Crypto Investment Fraud: Pig Butchering

    Departments nationwide are being inundated with reports of cryptocurrency facilitate crimes, specifically investment fraud. This webinar would cover the fundamentals of investigating fake cryptocurrency exchanges and "pig butchering". Attendees will understand the various ways these fraudulent services, such as DeFi "wallet drains". From taking the initial report and furthering the investigation, this webinar covers best practices. Blockchain analytic tools will be utilized in real world scenarios, as well as other OSINT investigative techniques for the various ways these criminals defraud their victims.

    Presented by:
    Keven Hendricks, Detective, City of New Brunswick Police Department

    Handling Sensitive Investigations in Rural Communities: Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence Cases Webinar

    On Thursday, August 17, at 2:00pm ET, the Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance’s (BJA’s) Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative (RVCRI) is hosting a webinar addressing strategies for handling sensitive investigations, such as sexual assault and intimate partner violence, in rural communities, best practices, and lessons learned.

    Attendees will hear from Brian Eads, Investigator at the Gering, NE Police Department and Michael Tunink, Senior Criminal Attorney at the Coconino County, AZ County Attorney’s Office. During the event, attendees will:

    Ensuring Ethical Preservation and Protection of Victims' Rights in Capital Punishment Cases: Model Practices

    This webinar and accompanying checklist will provide the prosecutors the tools to examine ethical issues in capital punishment cases. It will describe ways to ethically preserve and protect victim rights while prosecuting a capital punishment case. Model practice recommends considering surviving victims' rights without sacrificing a prosecutor's obligations when trying a death penalty case.

    Developments and Trends of 2023 Cyber Attacks to Public Safety

    The Public Safety Threat Alliance Intelligence team will present our observations and assessments on the trends and developments of cyber activity targeting public safety. We will breakdown the specific tradecraft mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK matrix, and detail how threat actors have been adapting to continue to be successful in 2023.

    Presented by:
    Tyler Brodbeck, Threat Intelligence Manager, Motorola Solutions
    Travis Randall, Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst, Motorola Solutions

    Increasing Law Enforcement Effectiveness in Human Trafficking and Migrant Victimization from the Survivor's Perspective

    Reports of suspected child sexual exploitation increased 35 percent from 2020 to 2021, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The network estmates that there are over 13,000 illicit massage parlors. Due to cultural stigmas, ethnic communities often fail to report these crimes making it harder to identify victims. The purpose of this presentation is to address the impact of cultural competency in victim services through understanding different cultural needs and beliefs, and how to serve child and youth victims and their families from these communities more effectively, using case studies.

    Objective 1: Identifying migrant victimization.
    Objective 2: Understanding different cultural beliefs among different races and ethnicities.
    Objective 3: Enhancing effective culturally and linguistically sensitive and survivor-centered approaches.

    Presented by:
    Eileen Dong, Executive Director, Hope Pyx Global

    Justice Clearinghouse Webinar: Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative: Diminishing Crime, One Community at a Time

    Violent crime is on the rise in many jurisdictions, including rural communities. Rural law enforcement agencies are left to tackle these issues, often with a decreasing tax base, personnel shortages, expansive geographic territory, and lack of access to medical treatment that can make violent crimes more fatal than in urban settings.

    Advanced Dark Web Investigations

    This webinar will cover the various dark nets: TOR, I2P, ZeroNet, IPFS, LokiNet and explain the differences between them. Attendees will learn about various investigative methods to different elements of criminality that exist on these dark nets. A very cursory overview of cryptocurrencies will be covered and how the cryptocurrencies are the cornerstone of dark web commerce as well as the best investigative leads.

    Presented by:
    Keven Hendricks, Detective, City of New Brunswick Police Department

    Murder 101: Trial Strategy and Preserving the Record

    JOIN US June 28, 2023 at 3pm ET for the next entry in our "Murder 101" webinar series, "Trial Strategy and Preserving the Record." Presented by Tulsa County DA Steve Kunzweiler, this webinar is excellent for building the skills of newer complex homicide and capital prosecutors. Approaching your first capital or complex homicide trial is a challenging task, even if you have previously tried other cases before a jury.

    Reconsidering a Famous Crime: What if the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman Murders Happened in 2023?

    O.J. Simpson was charged and acquitted with murdering two persons in a widely televised, 9-month jury trial, following a violent attack in June 1994. He was then found liable for their wrongful death in a later civil trail. This presentation will first provide an overview of the trial evidence and identify investigative challenges with this case. Then the presenter, an experienced former federal prosecutor who was not involved in the trials, will describe the present and emerging high technology and digital evidence that might be available if the same crime happened in 2023. The presentation will explore new ways to investigate and prosecute violent crimes and murders using a new functional approach to high technology, digital evidence, and criminal trade craft. The presentation will discuss new ways to use Internet of Things evidence, wearable fitness devices, smart homes, smartphones, identifying suspects, offender interviewing, and other potential sources of evidence for successful investigations and winning trials.

    Presented by:
    Steven DeBrota, Vice President, Chief Counsel, NW3C

    Criminal Use of Artificial Intelligence: Case Studies and Forensic Investigative Considerations

    Miami-Dade County Police Department and Middlesex County NJ Prosecutor's Office team up to look at cases involving artificial intelligence supported criminal trade craft, challenges for investigations, and digital forensic considerations. This presentation will review illustrative cases studies, technical considerations and investigative approaches applied. The webinar will also examine other potential criminal tactics techniques and procedures where support from artificial intelligence is likely to present in the future.

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