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Episode: 00335 Released on September 7, 2026 Description: Welcome to the first episode of JAM: Jason and Mindy on Analyst Talk! After years of talking about doing a show together, Jason Elder and Mindy Yoon finally make it happen. In this quarterly series, Jason and Mindy discuss what’s on their minds in law enforcement analysis: what’s their jam, what’s not their jam, and whatever els...

Episode: 00334 Released on August 31, 2026 Description: Amy O’Neill didn’t set out to become a law enforcement analyst. After earning a geography degree, a temporary opportunity with Humberside Police introduced her to intelligence analysis and launched a career spanning tactical analysis, major investigations, leadership, and the UK’s National Crime Agency. In this episode, Amy discus...

Episode: 00333 Released on August 24, 2026 Description: What motivates police officers to embrace proactive and evidence-based policing? In Episode 6 of Research Remix, Jason Elder and Jamie Roush examine a 2025 study by Peterson, Lum, and Koper exploring the factors that influence officers’ proactive policing activities. Jason and Jamie discuss the importance of organizational culture, supervisor...

Episode: 00332 Released on August 17, 2026 Description:  Matt Lambert has spent his career exploring where law enforcement analysis can take him from local crime analysis and federal contract support to geospatial data science and eventually supervising an analytical unit. In this episode, Matt joins host Jason Elder to discuss his unconventional path into the profession, his analyst badge story in...

Episode: 00331 Released on August 10, 2026 Description:  What does an investigative analyst actually do? In this episode, Jason sits down with Vanessa Martinovici, Criminal Intelligence Analyst with the Rocky Mountain Information Network (RMIN), to discuss her journey from discovering the profession during a college internship to supporting complex investigations across the western United States. V...

Episode: 00330 Released on August 3, 2026 Description:  What happens when you review 850 analytical job postings spanning nearly three years? Dr. Jessica Herbert did exactly that, and what she found should make every law enforcement leader rethink how they hire analysts. In this episode, Jason and Jessica discuss the disconnect between job postings and the actual work today's analysts perform. They...

Episode: 00329 Released on July 27, 2026 Description:  Can numbers really tell the truth, or can they tell any story we want them to? In this episode of Before You Leap, Jason Elder and Randy Stickley tackle one of the most misunderstood aspects of intelligence and crime analysis: the interpretation of numbers. The discussion explores why percentages can create a false sense of certainty, the diffe...

Episode: 00328 Released on July 20, 2026 Description:  What can U.S. analysts learn from Australia's intelligence community? Jason sits down with Zoe Chenier, Lead Senior Intelligence Analyst and President of the IALEIA Australian Chapter, to discuss her journey from discovering crime analysis by accident to becoming a leader in strategic intelligence. The conversation explores Australia's unique p...

Episode: 00327 Released on July 13, 2026 Description:  Investigative genetic genealogy is helping solve cold cases, identify unknown victims, and generate leads that traditional investigative methods could not uncover. But where do law enforcement analysts fit into this rapidly evolving field?

In the inaugural episode of LEAN (Law Enforcement Analysis Networks), host Jason Elder speaks with Christine Fiechter and Kimm Barnes o...