Joining us from the beautiful Virgin Islands is our guest, Patricia Potter! In this episode, Patricia shares her experience as both a dispatcher and analyst on an island-based jurisdiction. Her badge story involves a burglary case committed by a known suspect where she quickly obtained buy-in and approval from both officers and leadership.

For over a decade, Pamela Miller has worked her way up from an administrative assistant to a criminal intelligence analyst with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. In this episode, Pamela discusses her career journey from a state agency to local agency, and advice she has for aspiring analysts. Pamela’s badge story pertains to a homicide investigation where the suspect fled across the continental US to escape.

Kristen Burton, who’s worked both as an analyst and a legal assistant. Kristen shares how she transitioned between the roles, their similarities and differences, and how both play a role in the criminal justice system. Kristen’s badge story involves her use of geofencing to narrow down the search of her suspect during an investigation.

In this week’s episode, Dallas Knight shares how she went from an officer and analyst in the US Army to Intel Analyst for the Las Vegas Metro PD to Sales Specialist at IBM to VP of Channel Sales & Client Success at Blue Light LLC where she is today. Dallas has a wealth of knowledge that she’s happy to share, including her work in addressing the drug epidemic in the Las Vegas Metro area, and how analytical skills work in the private sector.

A true hero to emergency services – Patrick Servey has been a dispatcher for both police and fire, a firefighter, and of course, a crime analyst. In this episode, Patrick discusses the transferable skills from each position he’s held, and how it makes him an effective analyst.

Another year, another 52 episodes to promote the law enforcement analysis profession. In this special anniversary episode, multiple members of our team discuss our experience working for the podcast, what would be beneficial at conferences, reactions to DBTA call-in segments, and what the future will hold; notable segments, among many, include Seth’s experience working on our YouTube series, Small Steps, and Alexis’s experience being a student in the law enforcement analysis field.

Michael Raney has over 14 years of law enforcement analysis experience with different agencies throughout California and has served as the Vice President of the Bay Area Criminal and Intelligence Analyst Association (BACIAA) since 2015.

With over three decades of law enforcement analysis experience in the military, federal, and private sector, Brennan Long definitely came with a wealth of experience ready to share! Brennan started his intelligence analysis journey at the local level and worked his way up to the FBI where he eventually became a supervising analyst before starting his own private investigations firm. His badge story involves an international baby formula theft and fraud scheme and leads into a conversation about cryptocurrency, block-chain analysis, and the future of crime.

This week’s episode is a bit different as we won’t be going through how Former CIA Analyst Martin Petersen started his career as he has already done that in another episode (link below). Instead, we will be focusing on his experience working with analysts, performing analytical functions himself, and developing analyst training programs to foster future leaders – in addition to how he got the nickname, “the fixer.”

In this episode, new Leapodcasts IALEIA correspondent Alexander Gulde reports from the 2023 LEIU/IALEIA Annual Training Event in Las Vegas.  The conference broke a record with nearly 800 attendees.  Alex reacts to the best and worst of the conference offerings as well as all of the IALEIA news coming from the conference.