2024 CCAA Conference Overview

Released on December 20, 2023 Description: In this episode,  Amanda Bruner and Caleb Meyers talk about the upcoming Carolina Crime Analysis Association Conference in Charleston, SC February 27 - March 1, 2024. Unique to this conference are 4-hour masterclasses in Microsoft Office, OSINT, and ArcGIS Pro as well as a student poster session. Amanda and Caleb review all this conference has to offer including networking opportunities with social hour,  a private comedy show,  and a ghost tour. The conference promises a comprehensive program with an assortment of workshops and traditional sessions aimed at honing the skills of public and private sector crime and intelligence analysts. Amanda Bruner is the CCAA president and Associate Research Analyst in BJA’s Crime Analyst in Residence program. Caleb Meyers is the CCAA Conference Chair and a crime analyst at the Garner Police Department in North Carolina.

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https://www.carolinascrimeanalysis.org/2024conference
https://www.leapodcasts.com/e/atwje-amanda-bruner-finding-your-purpose/ 
https://www.leapodcasts.com/e/atwje-caleb-meyers-the-go-to-intel-guy/

Vendor(s) Mentioned: SmartForce Technologies, SAS, Platinum, SIMSI, ForceMetrics, Motorola Solutions, I2 Group, Cobwebs, IRIS Tech, Peregrine, PenLink

 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rachel Santos (Radford University,  Author of Crime Analysis and Crime Mapping)

Featured Speakers:

• Dr. Lee Hunt (Madison Police Department)
  • Supporting Crime Reduction Strategies with Crime Analysis
  • This presentation discusses the major crime reduction models used today and how crime analysis supports each.
• Dr. Andrew Wheeler (Crime De-Coder)
  • Simple statistics for evaluating interventions to reduce crime
  • All that is needed for the test is pre and post crime counts in treated and control areas. They will provide an Excel spreadsheet to show how to calculate the change in crimes due to the treatment,  as well as whether the intervention resulted in spatial displacement.
• Kyra Watkin (Halo Group Consulting,  Former Senior Manager in Trust & Safety at Roblox)
  • Mastering the Transition: From Crime Analysis to Tech Titan
  • In this talk,  you will discover how the skills you developed in analyzing criminal behavior can translate powerfully into roles in tech,  consulting,  and the private sector.
• Kelly Harrington (Director of Asset Protection at RaceTrac)
• Chief Brewster & Courtney Corriere (Blacksburg Police Department)
  • A Dotted Line to the Chief
  • In this presentation,  the Chief of the Blacksburg Police Department and their Crime Analyst will explore strategies and best practices to foster this indispensable top-down support,  enabling crime analysis to evolve into an even more powerful tool for crime prevention and law enforcement cooperation.
• Annie Mitchell (IACA VP of Administration)
  • Control Your Role
  • This presentation will walk you through your stumbling blocks,  best practices,  turning biter into better and provide insight and next steps to move forward and become the crime analyst you want to be.

Masterclasses: (included in the price of registration)

• Desktop Automation - Charley Giberti (Research Innovations Incorporated,  SME for CAR Program)
  • Microsoft Office
• OSINT - Moe McClanahan (NW3C)
  • Topics include digital footprints,  networking to include IP addresses and domains,  searching online using both the surface web and deep web help identify targets.
  • Course will also include hands-on practical exercises and a brief discussion on preservation letters.
• ArcGIS Pro - Dr. Eric Piza (Northeastern University,  author of Modern Policing Using ArcGIS Pro)
  • Creating crime density maps and measuring density change (which will also include a map algebra exercise not included in the book
  • Using vector methods to identify crime clusters (which will include the 80/20 tool and a street segment exercise not included in the book)
  • Using spatial joins to summarize numeric attributes & creating incident paths
  • Using ModelBuilder 

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