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Louisville Marriott
Downtown
August 3-5, 2008
The 2008 National Forum on Criminal Justice and Public
Safety focused on "No More Victims-Standing Up to Violent
Crime." This is the only criminal justice conference that brings
together public safety practitioners; agency staff from the state, local
and federal levels; and leaders in the private sector to focus on
responding to violent crime that is plaguing our communities today and
on preventing these problems in the future.
Sponsored by The National Criminal Justice Association
and the IJIS Institute in conjunction with the Bureau of Justice
Assistance this conference showcased ideas and strategies that provided
solutions in the fight against violent crime. Conference participants
learned about programs that are working in communities across the
country and brought home ideas that can be implemented immediately.
Topics at the 2008 conference included targeting gang
violence, school and campus safety, intelligence led policing, public
health planning, violent crime in Indian country and much, much
more.
Many of these sessions had power
point presentations that are available for download:
Research Evidence for Violent Crime
Policy
This panel session examined three lines of research with important
implications for policies about violent crime: police gang task forces
and the intersection of violent offenders and property crimes.The
purpose of this session is to generate discussion among policy makers,
practitioners, and researchers about the evidence for criminal justice
policies designed to reduce violent crime.
> Scott
Decker, Professor and Director, ASU School of Criminology &
Criminal Justice
> John
Roman, Sr. Research Associate, Urban Institute, Justice Policy
Center
Protecting Your Community - How It All Fits
Together
Presentation on the major national programs advancing the use of
standards and technology to support information sharing in the justice,
public safety, and homeland security sectors. Updates on major
programs, including the FBI’s National Data Exchange (N-DEx), the
National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), and Intelligence Fusion will
be presented. Full
Presentation
> Robert P. Boehmer, Director, Institute for Public Safety
Partnerships; Chair, Global Advisory Committee
> Paul S. Embley, Chief Information Officer and Director of
Technology, National Center for State Courts
> Bruce Kelling, Chair, IJIS Institute N-DEx Advisory Committee
> SSA Edward Waigand, N-DEx Data Standards Manager, FBI/CJIS
Essential Guidance for Partnering with
Faith-Based Organizations
In this session participants learned how to stretch your program
dollars by partnering with faith-based and other community organizations
and still comply with the Constitution. Participants learned about the
U.S. Department of Justice’s Equal Treatment Regulations, the
ability of faith-based organizations to consider religion when hiring
staff for government-funding programs, how voucher programs work and
their benefits, and answers to frequently asked questions. In addition,
state administrators discussed how the President’s Faith-Based and
Community Initiative has impacted their work.
> Robert
Siedlecki, Senior Legal Counsel, Task Force For Faith-Based And
Community Initiatives, U.S. Dept. of Justice
> Mark
Fero, Grants Manager, Office of the Attorney General of VA
Technology as a Weapon in the Fight Against
Violent Crime
Presentation on the increased effectiveness in fighting violent
crime through the integration of advanced analytics, information sharing
and enabling technologies to predict, prevent and solve crime.
Case study examples of proven methods of law enforcement will be
featured.
> Lt. Cheryl
Newman, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, CA
> David
Heffner & Fred Johnston, CODY Systems
> Thomas
Quinn, Vice Chairman, Datamaxx Group, Inc.
> Capt. Mitch
Cunningham, Director, Information Support and Analysis Division,
Montgomery County Police, MD
Justice Reinvestment
Justice Reinvestment is a project of the Council of State
Government’s Justice Center (CSG/JC), funded though the Bureau of
Justice Assistance with assistance from private foundations. The project
allows CSG/JC to work closely with states as they assess their
correctional needs and offender populations. Key stakeholders within the
state come together with CSG/JC staff to determine how to limit rising
prison populations, thereby eliminating the need for new prison
construction and reinvesting in community-based supervision and services
for offenders. In addition to this work, CSG/JC staff and state
officials assess which communities, offenders are returning, allowing
the reinvestment to occur in those communities. The project addresses
such issues as prison overcrowding, offender assessment, community
partnerships, housing and financial obligations faced by offenders, and
leveraging of resources to best meet the needs of the state and its
communities to ensure public safety is not jeopardized.
> Andrew Molloy, Associate Deputy Director, Bureau of Justice
Assistance
> Marshall
Clement, Project Director, Council of State Governments
Inside the Beltway
NCJA staff will reviewed and discussed Congressional activities that
will affect state, local, and tribal criminal justice policy makers and
practitioners. This discussion included the status of the FY2009
appropriations for the federal criminal justice assistance programs
including the Byrne JAG Program, OJJDP formula and block grant programs,
the Violence Against Women Act grant programs, the Victims of Crime Act
programs and the COPS program. Full
Presentation
> Cabell Cropper, Executive Director, National Criminal Justice
Association
> Elizabeth Pyke, Sr. Manager for Government Affairs, National
Criminal Justice Association
Working to Provide On-Campus
Security
In April 2007, the nation was shocked by the murder of over 30 students
and faculty members at Virginia Tech. Since then, college campuses and
communities have worked on plans and strategies to prevent and respond
to violence on campus. This workshop looked at the key preparedness
lessons learned from Virginia Tech; what steps universities are taking
to make students and staff safe, and how the efforts of educational
institutions fit into broader strategies to prevent and respond to mass
casualty incidents.
> Kenneth E. Brown, Assistant Chief of Police, University of
Louisville, Police Department
> Ian
M. Hay, President, SouthEast Emergency Response Network
> Hollis
Stambaugh, Director, Center for Public Protection, System Planning
Corporation and the TriData Division
9-1-1 is More Than a Call for Help
Presentation on the critical role of the country’s 6,500 emergency
communications centers in providing real time incident information to
public safety and homeland security, and the value of standards based
data interoperability in this area. Discussion included updates on
the status of BJA-sponsored Public Safety Data Interoperability (PSDI)
initiative. Full
Presentation
> Bill Kellett, Technology Architect, Microsoft & Chair, PSDI
Committee
> Chief Harlin McEwen, Chairman, Communications and Technology
Committee, International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)
> Kevin McGinnis, Technology Advisor, National Association of State
EMS Officials
> Jim Slater, Chief Information Officer, MA Executive Office of
Public Safety and Security
Intelligence-Led Policing
What is intelligence-led policing? Who is doing it? How is it relevant
to my department? This session answered these questions with a
discussion of the theory and the practice of intelligence-led policing.
Following this session, participants were able to: 1) Understand the
concept of intelligence-led policing; 2) Understand its application to
violent crime investigation and prevention; and 3) Learn about
intelligence-led policing efforts of the Bureau of Justice
Assistance’s Targeting Violent Crime Initiative Task Forces.
> Michael
Medaris, Senior Policy Advisor, Bureau of Justice Assistance
> Capt.
Larry Casterline, High Point, NC Police Department
Emerging Technologies
Panel discussion on the application of various technological
capabilities in support of targeted aspects of crime reduction.
Discussion included advance identification technologies, forensics,
automatic license plate readers, video surveillance and others.
> Matt
D’Alessandro, Business Development Manager, Motorola Corp.;
Chair, IJIS Emerging Technologies Committee
> John
Crouse, Vice President, ACS Government Solutions; Co-chair, IJIS
Emerging Technologies Committee
> William
Haffey, Sr. Technical Director, Global Solutions Engineering, SPSS
Inc.
> Iveta Topalova (PP
One/ PP
Two), Enterprise Architect, Analysts International
State Data Sources for Research on Violent
Offenders
Panelists discussed ways in which Statistical Analysis Centers (SACs)
use data to inform state decision makers about a range of issues related
to violent offenders.
> Robert
McManus, Director, Statistical Analysis Center, SC Dept. of
Public Safety
> Stan
Orchowsky, Research Director, Justice Research and Statistics
Association
> Paul
Stageberg, Ph.D., Administrator, IA Division of Criminal and
Juvenile Justice Planning
Public Health and Critical Planning in the Criminal Justice
System
Public health emergencies present unique challenges to public safety and
criminal justice systems. Such crises may require a rapid coordinated
response among various state, local, tribal, and federal agencies, but
particularly between public health and justice sectors. This requires
that all facets of these systems have a well-developed, coordinated plan
in place, and that each sector and agency know its role in response to
the emergency. This workshop highlighted the need for critical planning
and provided guidance to assist criminal justice officials in their
joint planning efforts with public health.
> Larry
Moser, Major, Fairfax County Police, Virginia
> Dr.
Dean Sienko, MD, MS, Medical Director/Chief Medical Examiner, Ingham
County, MI Health Dept.
Targeting Gang Violence
The rise in violent crime is challenging federal, state, local, and
tribal law enforcement. This gang activity differs in significant
ways from earlier gang violence. Communities are seeing gangs made
up of younger people and gangs with international connections and
roots. This workshop examined a federal strategy that combines
targeting, coordinating, and enforcing to respond to rising gang
violence and community-based programs that are working to prevent youth
from becoming gang-involved.
> Capt. Mark
Bridgeman, Fayetteville Police Department, NC
> Adam
W. Cohen, Director, National Gang Targeting Enforcement &
Coordination Center, U.S. Dept. of Justice
> Robin
S. Engel, Ph.D., Director, University of Cincinnati Policing
Institute
The Significance of Suspicious Activity
Reporting (SAR) in Crime Reduction
Presentation on the value to U.S. communities of joining state and major
urban area Fusion Centers in an “All Crimes” intelligence-
based prevention mission. The role of law enforcement at all
levels was discussed in this session. Full
Presentation
> Sgt. Lance Ladines, Supervisor, Washington Joint Analytical Center,
WA State Patrol
> Joan T. McNamara, Assistant Commanding Officer, Counter-Terrorism
and Criminal Intelligence Bureau, Los Angeles Police Department, CA
> Sharad Rao, President & CEO, Tetrus Consulting
> Larry Shaw, Inspector, FL Dept. of Law Enforcement
School and Campus Safety: Tools to Promote a
Safer Learning Environment
While, statistically, schools and college campuses continue to
be one of the most secure places for our children, local law enforcement
agencies have been asked to take an increasingly prominent role in
ensuring school safety. With the recent events on campus grounds,
parents and law enforcement have a renewed focus on safety. Working
together, school and campus communities and their law enforcement
partners can better anticipate and prepare for when, where, or how
schools may become targets of a violent act. This session focused on
school and campus safety, preparing for and responding to acts of
violence, policy implications of the different options available to law
enforcement and public safety professionals, and provide participants
with knowledge and tools for use in their communities. It also
highlighted the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training
(ALERRT) Program supported by BJA.
> David
Adams, Senior Policy Advisor, Bureau of Justice Assistance
> John Curnutt, ALERRT Instructor, Texas State University- San
Marcos
Violent Crime in Indian Country
Tribal nations are struggling with increasing violent crime rates just
like their counterparts in federal, state, and local governments.
Tribal justice officials are facing additional obstacles in responding
to and preventing violent crime in Indian Country because of overlapping
jurisdictions and a lack of resources. Experts in tribal law
enforcement discussed the nature and extent of violent crime on
tribal lands and strategies being put in place to respond to and prevent
these crimes.
> Reno
Charette, Native American Studies Program Coordinator, MT State
University, Billings
> Dyanne
Greer, Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Arizona
> Capt. Greg
Toya, NM Department of Public Safety, State Police
Informed Policing in U.S. Communities
Presentation on the value of sharing and utilizing information
to measure and determine the effectiveness of policing strategies in the
reduction and prevention of crime. Discussion explored how a focus
on key components of crime analysis and new hypotheses, enhanced by the
sharing of information within and across relevant jurisdictions, can
improve the effectiveness of law enforcement in the community. Full
Presentation
> H. Dean Crisp, Jr., Chief of Police (Ret.), City of Columbia,
SC
> Bill Kellett, Technology Architect, Microsoft
> Peter Schaffer, Oracle Corporation
Measuring the Cost-Benefit of Justice
Initiatives
Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a powerful tool for demonstrating the
value of justice initiatives. CBA can determine whether the benefits of
an initiative outweigh the costs, and provides the basis for
demonstrating a program’s return on investment. This workshop
provided attendees with a practical understanding of CBA and how it can
be used to inform decision-making and sustain effective efforts.
Participants were introduced to key CBA terms, concepts, and
applications, as well as the fundamental principles and procedures used
to conduct a cost-benefit analysis. Participants learned about the value
and limitations of CBA for decision making and how return on investment
data can be used to more fully demonstrate the value of programs that
work. CBA’s role in the evidence-based movement will also be
discussed.
> Roger
Przybylski, Consultant, RKC Group
> Robert Swisher, Director, Policy & Research Section, OH Office
of Criminal Justice Services
Thank you to those participants who filled out the
Forum evaluation. Based on your responses, the 2008 Forum was a huge
success! We are already using your comments and suggestions in planning
next year's conference. To see an overview of the evaluation
responses, click
here.
We look forward to seeing
you next year August 9-11, 2009 in Bellevue,
Washington!
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