Shannon Kail joins us this week with three exciting analyst badge stories related to a carjacking spree, a homicide, and a gun-related crime as well as discussing resources for social network analysis (SNA) and NIBIN. Shannon also shares her experience in the courtroom and how jail calls helped convict the carjacking suspect who was attempting to plea insanity.

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In this episode, Chris shares his career journey from an officer to private investigator to crime analyst for both New York Police Department (NYPD) and currently the Delray Beach Police Department. Chris discusses the transferable skills between these positions, his thoughts on CompStat and working for a decentralized crime analysis unit, and how crimes in The Big Apple compare to the beach cities of Florida. Chris’s analyst badge story involves a peculiar series where a subject was drugging people via a concoction stored in an eye drop bottle.

In this episode our guest not only enjoys reading and writing but takes his role serving the public interest to heart. Cody Gabbard joins us from the best coast (his words) to discuss the skills he developed in the private sector and how he applies them now as a Crime Data Analyst. Cody discusses using dashboards, automation, and leveraging data to enable data transparency.

The final person on Charley Giberti’s “Analyst of the Future” list to finally be interviewed on our podcast: Elisabeth Buccola! In this episode, Elisabeth shares her thoughts on the analyst hiring process, communication obstacles, cell phone analysis software, and the IACA mentoring program. Elisabeth has had the opportunity to work in five different departments including the Chicago Crime Commission where she worked on the Gang Book in 2018.

Jason welcomes back Ritu Gill to the podcast to discuss a new web-capturing software she co-founded. Forensic OSINT is a Chrome extension that helps law enforcement capture and organize essential moments of OSINT research. The software produces documentation that includes hashes, capture dates, and time-stamped frames, and it can even capture video from YouTube, TikTok, and X (Twitter).

In this episode, Nicholas Butler shares his decision to pursue a double major during undergrad and his subsequent graduate degree in applied criminology. Nicholas’s badge stories involve the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) and a homicide in broad daylight, but his position as a trusted analyst means he is involved in all investigations with his agency. Nicholas is a certified analyst through the IACA among other certifications and has testified as an expert witness.

Danielle Martell and Julie Romano are the Speaker Coordinators for the IACA Conference Committee. Danielle joins Jason to discuss the IACA conference speaker selection process (going on now!). The goal is to remove some of the mystique around the process and to give listeners tips and tricks on a successful presentation application.

In this episode, Cynthia Peterman shares how she helped expand the intelligence analysis landscape in Ohio so the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations (BCI) personnel didn’t have to travel for hours to assist in investigations for a few hours then drive back – now they have satellite sites that communicate and assist one another with cases. Cynthia transitioned from BCI to the Ohio Attorney General’s Office to their narcotics division where she spent most of her career in narcotics investigations and training multiple intelligence analysts as their supervisor.