Training Delivery - Webinar

    Webinar - Shot in the Dark: A Cold Case Homicide in the Digital Age

    Just a mile away from the Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a woman is shot during a nighttime stroll in a public park. It's the latest in a bizarre series of events, three years into a five-year missing persons investigation. Closing the case will take years of work, dozens of search warrants, and two weeks of testimony. This presentation will provide a case study of the investigation and prosecution of a no-body homicide. Getting to the verdict took thousands of hours of digital forensics to help prove premeditation and tie the killer, who hid themselves using VPNs and proxies, to years of online impersonations of their victim.

    Webinar - The Critical Role of a Money Laundering Professional

    Money laundering is an integral part of many, if not most, of crime and terror finance. From local crime to tax avoidance to transnational networks, the source of money will be masked to conceal the source and at the same time serve to make the money usable in the legitimate worlds of business and finance. This requires the professionals involved to exercise expertise, business acumen, and power influence. This course will describe the types of money laundering professionals and how they serve to bridge the hidden and illicit sources of money with the real world, often remaining invisible themselves. We will use case studies to demonstrate the levels at which they operate (local, national/transnational, political) and the challenges they face in accomplishing their criminal goals.

    Webinar - Shadow Economy 101

    Communities are under siege by crimes for profit. When criminals make money (regardless of method: fraud, human trafficking, drugs, counterfeit or stolen goods, cargo, identity theft, or organized retail theft), they create a shadow economy. This illicit activity competes with and erodes the economic stability of our communities. Unique research into the economic impact of the shadow economy reveals the critical need to support skilled, targeted investigations and effective prosecution. Unfortunately, there are ever-increasing efforts to decriminalize non-violent crimes. These policies are fueling the unprecedented growth of the shadow economy. In order to defend communities from this threat, investigators will require a counter-narrative to illustrate how these policies are generating more crime, propagating violence, and ultimately leading to urban decay.

    Webinar – Life-Saving Partners: 9-1-1 and Suicide Lifelines Working Together

    Dispatcher and crisis hotline staff both play important roles in helping individuals in moments of crisis. Although they both share the goal of helping the caller, the steps each role takes can differ greatly. This webinar will teach what those steps are, how shared information can speed up the process, and how each agency can best help the other to save a caller’s life.

    Presenters:

    Halcyon Frank is a founder of The Dispatch Lab, a dispatch training and support organization.

    Webinar – Building a Successful Homicide Committee: Police-Prosecutor Collaboration in Jackson County, MO

    Join the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) for “Building a Successful Homicide Committee: Police-Prosecutor Collaboration in Jackson County, MO,” an hour-long webinar that is part of the Capital Case Litigation Initiative webinar series. The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office and the Kansas City Police Department have instituted a successful, collaborative homicide review process.

    Webinar – DNA: Making Sense of the Methods & Science Behind Your Samples

    DNA is often touted as the “gold standard” of crime scene evidence. In this session, presenters will explore the science behind DNA, DNA-associated evidence types (what we can/can’t process), the methods used to process this type of evidence, and challenges associated with both methods and interpretation of results. This web event is hosted by the Zero Abuse Project in conjunction with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s National Training and Technical Assistance Center.

    Webinar – “Diverting People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities from the Criminal Justice System”

    People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (sometimes known as I/DD) are an often overlooked population in the criminal justice system because of a lack of identification, understanding, and service gaps that prevent providers’ abilities to address their needs. Criminal justice professionals looking to effectively divert people in this population from the justice system can look to this webinar for strategies and tips on diversion, with an additional focus on people who have co-occurring I/DD, substance use disorders, and mental illnesses.

    Webinar - Cryptocurrency, Compliance, and Financial Crimes

    This webinar will discuss cryptocurrency general information for detailed discussion regarding legitimate use versus illegitimate use, common financial crimes, and avoidance of compliance requirements. Further, the webinar will delve into exchanges, transactions, opportunities for data collection and analysis, the value to criminal or compliance investigations, and a review of current case studies.

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