Discussing Crime Analysis with ADJ163 Guest

Riots, lawlessness, and rampant violent crime. The general populace believes crime is skyrocketing. Perhaps rightfully so, yet statistics seem to illustrate crime is dropping. Is crime actually dropping, or is the population just growing and diluting the numbers? Or is it the methodology we are using to track crime?

How does police leadership view crime? New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas claimed that New Orleans may be the nation’s murder capital, but other than that, it’s a reasonably safe place. In fact, New Haven CT, Little Rock AR, and even Amarillo TX are all more dangerous than New Orleans, at least according to the statistics. If a city has a high larceny rate, but a low murder rate, is it classified as “high-crime” over some cities with more violent crime problems?

Daniel Seals has some answers. Daniel Seals is a subject matter expert on using statistics for predictive crime analysis and police methodology. To date, Mr. Seals has trained over 3000 (and counting) law enforcement officials across 8 countries on various topics including Intelligence Led Policing, Social Media Investigations, and Predictive Policing Methodologies. He has been a featured speaker at The Georgia State Intelligence Network, the FBI National Academy Continuing Education Division, International Association of Chiefs of Police and the 19th Annual Violent Gang Information Sharing Conference in New York, to name a few.

Mr. Seals will be virtually joining the ADJ163 class (Crime Analysis and Intelligence) on Oct. 20. Class time is from 4 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Mr. Seals will be touching on several topics, including how crime statistics affect police methodology, why statistics are important, and most of all, how to use crime statistics in today’s policing, and answering your questions.

Please join us and feel free to forward this invitation to any you feel may be interested. The Zoom link is below.

Topic: (Fall 2021) ADJ 163 (040M) – Crime Analysis and Intelligence
Time: Oct. 20, 4:00 p.m.

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Meeting ID: 891 7870 2877
Passcode: 940934

Submitted by:
Cathleen Cogdill, ccogdill@nvcc.edu