NIRO Knowledge

Today on NIRO Knowledge, my guest is the Police Science Dr herself, Dr Susanne Knabe-Nicol.  She brings us knowledge on her background, forming the bridge between academia and research and those who can put it all into practice and an upcoming conference that she is hosting virtually in April 2021.

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Episode 25 video version
Police Science Dr
Rapid Fire Conference registration

Here it is!  We are going Back to the Future!  Well, we're looking back in history in order to look ahead into the future and take with us the principles of the Father of Policing, Sir Robert Peel.  These core values and his principles can guide us towards a better vision on what policing should have remained as.  We have some catching up to do since we derailed the community involved aspect of policing along with the idea tha...

Today I talk about the recent ECAC virtual conference that was in partnership with the IACA and the roster of guest speakers as well as my partnership with Dr Susanne Knabe-Nicol, the Police Science Dr, and her upcoming virtual conference as well.  Sign up for this FREE conference coming in April!

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Episode 1.6 video version
Dr Susanne Knabe-Nicol - sign up for her conference here as well
Dr Lawrence Sherm...

SO MANY GREAT THINGS COMING UP!  Give it a listen here folks.  There are some great names mentioned and great things coming up for NIRO Knowledge including be a part of a virtual conference in the United Kingdom!  I am partnering up with Excellence in Analytics and Dawn Reeby to provide technical skills help to her Rising Geniuss group.  Don't forget to check out another great resource and friend to myself and NIRO Knowledge, ...

Reinventing American policing was the topic of Dr Cynthia Lum's broadcast with George Mason University on Monday 2/22.  It is a topic that needs to be addressed and is demanded to be addressed in American policing today.  I talk about her presentation and how I believe analysts can be the momentum for growth and change in the policing culture to progress to being integrated with our communities.  I also bring actionable analys...

I breakdown some amazing updates for NIRO Crime Analysis, NIRO Knowledge and how academics and analysts can connect on my Slack group to share their knowledge and resources and pick each other's brain.  It has been growing and is international with SO many different backgrounds already in the mix.

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Episode 1.3 video
Lorna and John audio
Lorna and John video
Dr Cynthia Lum
NIRO Crime Analysis<...

I talk about traditional policing, why it matters today, what we can do with that knowledge of it, how we can shape it for the future and where to sign up to join the NIRO Crime Analysis community.

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NIRO Crime Analysis - newsletter sign up at the bottom of the page
NIRO Knowledge Podcast - or wherever you consume podcasts
NIRO Knowledge Dr Cynthia Lum episode
PopCenter at ASU document (p 36 for '...

Renée J. Mitchell served in the Sacramento Police Department for twenty-two years and is currently a Senior Police Researcher with RTI International.  She holds a B.S. in Psychology, a M.A. in Counseling Psychology, a M.B.A., a J.D., and a Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of Cambridge.  She was a 2009/2010 Fulbright Police Research Fellow where completed research in the area of juvenile gang violence at the London Metropoli...

I speak about the most recent webinar I hosted about top 5 analytical tools.  I also speak about the two podcasts from this year and how I believe changes need to be made.  Data is siloed or not captured or incorrectly captured and I believe we can help to do more.

Give a listen to this episode for more and with information on how to connect!

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NIRO Crime Analysis

Lorna Ferguson
Lorna Ferguson is a Ph.D. Student in the Sociology department at the University of Western Ontario, Canada and is the Founder of the Missing Persons Hub. Lorna has a broad interest in policing research and developing evidence-based approaches to policing and crime prevention, including issues related to firearms and social media use. Currently, she focuses on police responses to missing person cases. 

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The audio of the FIRST ever live podcast broadcast of NIRO Knowledge.  I get into data and what we struggle with as it is siloed in, often times, archaic records systems, the struggle of finding tools to help with this fractured dataset and bring it back to Dr Laura Huey and the police data she has to use for her newest research dealing with people with mental health issues and police data.

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NIRO Crime Analysis m...

Dr. Laura Huey is Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, Editor of Police Practice & Research, Chair of the Working Group on Mental Health and Policing of the Royal Society of Canada, Vice Chair of the American Society of Criminologists’ Division of Policing and the former Executive Director of the Canadian Society of Evidence Based Policing. She is also a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and...

My last episode for 2020.  I have big plans coming and I am hoping that you will all help.  Head over to my Twitter page and hit up that poll pinned to the top until Xmas Eve and let me know if you would join in on a LIVE episode of NIRO Knowledge.

I chat about Dr Laura Huey coming back to kick off another year of NIRO Knowledge for 2021 and I go over the two things that I believe we should all have in our vocabulary as an...

Today I talk about how we as analysts can help be the change for our police agencies and for our communities by following principles set forth almost 200 years ago by Sir Robert Peel himself.  Watch it below or give it a listen here. 

Analysts Assemble!

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December 2020 FREE Power BI webinar
Sir Robert Peel's 9 Policing Principles
Dr Cynthia Lum
Dr Lawrence Sherman
Dr Rachel Santos an...

I am thanking my guests and letting you all know how far you have helped NIRO Knowledge reach.  Over 30 countries, almost 400 cities on 6 continents, and this is more than I expected in our freshman year as a podcast.  Thank you to all of my listeners and all of my guests.  You all rock!

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NIRO Crime Analysis
NIRO Knowledge

I talk about signing up for the NIRO Crime Analysis email newsletter so you can be up to date on all the upcoming training opportunities and ask you to fill out a quick two questions form about purchasing swag to put some funds towards helping fellow analysts pay for training and certification opportunities.

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Swag Survey
NIRO Crime Analysis

I give thanks to my listeners and guests as you have helped this grow to an international audience on 6 of the 7 continents with thousands of listens and downloads.  I ask you to take time for yourself and keep your stress low.  I speak to a hopeful change to the NIRO Knowledge program that I think everyone will enjoy in 2021 once several hurdles have been jumped successfully.

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Dawn Reeby
Amy Boudreau
NIR...

Jacek [Jack] Koziarski is a third-year PhD Student in the Sociology Department at the University of Western Ontario, and a Research Associate for the Canadian Society of Evidence-Based Policing (Can-SEBP). Jacek has a broad interest in policing research and developing evidence-based approaches to policing, but his most recent work has specifically examined police responses to persons with perceived mental illness, policing cybercri...

Dr Lawrence W. Sherman is widely recognized as the founder of evidence-based policing, a professional social movement for using more analytic support in making police decisions about the Triple-T: Targeting, Testing and Tracking the use of police resources.  A professor of criminology at Cambridge University (UK) since 2007, he is editor of the CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF EVIDENCE-BASED POLICING and director of the postgraduate Cambridge ...