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In Acceptance of the SEARCH 2022 Justice Policy Leadership Award

NIJ Director Nancy La Vigne, Ph.D., gives acceptance speech at 2022 SEARCH Meeting
NIJ Director Nancy La Vigne, Ph.D.

Thank you, Dave, and thanks to the SEARCH Board for choosing me as this year’s recipient of the Justice Policy Leadership Award. I am tremendously honored. I also want to thank the wait staff here for taking such good care of us this evening — please join me in thanking them all!

If I’m not mistaken, this is the first time that SEARCH has awarded...

Real-Time Crime Forecasting Challenge Webinar

October 2016

This webinar will offer a brief overview of the National Institute of Justice and the data science needs of the criminal justice field. In addition, it will provide details about the Crime Forecasting Challenge, including who can submit, how to retrieve datasets, and the submission categories. The overall goal of the Crime Forecasting Challenge is to harness recent advances in data science to drive innovation in algorithms that advance place-based crime forecasting.

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The State of the Police Field: A New Professionalism in Policing?

June 2010

Panelists debate the premise of a Harvard Executive Session working paper that suggests police organizations are striving for a "new" professionalism. Leaders are endeavoring for stricter standards of efficiency and conduct, while also increasing their legitimacy to the public and encouraging innovation. Is this new? Will this idea lead to prematurely discarding community policing as a guiding philosophy?

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The State of the Police Field: A New Professionalism in Policing?
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1 of 4: The State of the Police Field: A New Professionalism in Policing?, Ellen Scrivner, National Institute of Justice , 2 of 4: The State of the Police Field: A New Professionalism in Policing?, Christopher Stone, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University , 3 of 4: The State of the Police Field: A New Professionalism in Policing?, David Sklansky, Yosef Osheawich Professor of Law and Faculty Chair, Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law , 4 of 4: The State of the Police Field: A New Professionalism in Policing?, Ronald Davis, Chief, East Palo Alto Police Department, Calif.

A View From the Street: Police Leaders Share Their Perspectives on Urgent Policy and Research Issues

June 2010

Sponsored by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and its Research Advisory Committee (RAC), this panel unites law enforcement leaders from across the country to discuss their policy and research concerns. Charles Wellford, IACP RAC co-chair and University of Maryland professor, will facilitate the panel. Presenters will discuss urgent policing issues that merit ongoing research, law enforcement and academic research partnerships, and how research can and does affect agency policy and operations.

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A View From the Street: Police Leaders Share Their Perspectives on Urgent Policy and Research Issues
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1 of 4: A View From the Street: Police Leaders Share Their Perspectives on Urgent Policy & Research Issues Facing Law Enforcement in 2010 & Beyond, Charles Wellford, Ph. D., Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland , 2 of 4: A View From the Street: Police Leaders Share Their Perspectives on Urgent Policy & Research Issues Facing Law Enforcement in 2010 & Beyond, Stephanie Stoiloff, Senior Police Bureau Commander, Miami-Dade Police Department, Miami , 3 of 4: A View From the Street: Police Leaders Share Their Perspectives on Urgent Policy & Research Issues Facing Law Enforcement in 2010 & Beyond, J. Michael Ward II, Chief, Alexandria Police Department, Ky. , 4 of 4: A View From the Street: Police Leaders Share Their Perspectives on Urgent Policy & Research Issues Facing Law Enforcement in 2010 & Beyond, Bernard K. Melekian, Director, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services

LEADS Scholar Spotlight — Reducing Gun Violence

May 2018
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Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science Program Spotlight
Cory Nelson, a captain with the Madison Police Department in Wisconsin and a Class of 2015 scholar of NIJ’s Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) Program, speaks about how he was able to reduce gun violence in Madison thanks to implementing the Koper Curve Theory. He learned of this new principle as part of the LEADS Program when he attended the Evidence-Based Policing Symposium at George Mason University earlier this year.

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LEADS Scholar Spotlight — Predictive Policing Algorithms

May 2018
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Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science Program Spotlight
Shon Barnes, a deputy police chief with the Salisbury Police Department in North Carolina and a Class of 2015 scholar of NIJ’s Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) Program, explains predictive policing and details a quasi-experiment that his department performed. He credits the LEADS Scholarship Program with helping him understand data and ask the right questions.

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