Dr. Jessica Herbert started her law enforcement career as a detective for ten years before transitioning over to an ATF task force officer, professor, analyst, and entrepreneur whose business provides innovative, data-driven guidance to local government agencies to enhance their services to their community. Dr. Jessica Herbert is currently the founder and CEO of IDEA Analytics.

Kat Howard brings an exciting, dynamic, hold-no-punches interview with Jason in this week’s empowering episode. Kat discusses her undercover work for a human trafficking investigation in her early 20s, her interest-turn-expertise in OSINT, and how to think outside the box while in the box of law enforcement culture.

In this episode, Jenny Urquhart and Bob Morehouse break down the agenda for the upcoming  2023 LEIU/IALEIA Annual Training Event in Las Vegas. The Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Units (LEIU) and the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA) work in cooperation with one another to reach the largest segment of the intelligence community possible.

In this episode, Lt. Kyle Dombrowski breaks down the agenda for the upcoming 2023 Midwest Gang Investigators Association Conference.  Topics include OMG, Prison Gangs, Drug Test Kits, Sun Tzu, History, Crypto, Hybrid Gangs, OSINT, Gang Crime Analysis, Gang Prosecution, Leadership, Ghost Guns, & Community Relations.

In this episode, Brianne Fenton gives aspiring analysts tips on how to secure an internship, succeed in an interview, and prepare for the day-to-day activities of a working analyst. Brianne shares two badge stories in this episode: first, identifying killers in a robbery-gone-wrong via social media, and second, identifying the shooter of a former ICE agent.

Ritu Gill joins Jason on this episode to discuss getting started in law enforcement and open source intelligence (OSINT). Ritu explains how she sought out and seized opportunities in her career that led her to where she is today.

In this episode, Karie Nordland discusses how she knew she wanted to be in the law enforcement field at an early age, and the classes and internships she partook in to achieve her goals – now she’s spewing crime analysis all over the place! Karie does a class on using social media as a (powerful) tool to assist in investigations; Karie breaks down the main lessons of her class, but we definitely recommend attending it whenever she presents it!

In this compelling episode, Allison Davids shares a traumatic story, and honestly, you do this job long enough, and you’ll likely rack up quite a few of your own. Allison gives us an overview of the event, how she and her department handled it, and how she’s coping with it now. Allison’s badge story involves a gun investigation working

with multiple federal agents, and giving a presentation to then-Attorney General, William Barr.

Joel Caplan helps cities and towns prevent crime and improve community policing. He helps them make data-informed decisions about policies and programs that enhance public safety. Dr. Caplan is a Professor at Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice (SCJ) and serves as Director of the SCJ Master’s Program and Director of the Rutgers Center on Public Security (RCPS). He specializes in GIS mapping and crime pattern analysis, and co-developed Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM), a spatial diagnostic technique that connects environmental features to crime locations.

In this episode, Jennifer Hill shares how she got her first analyst role by volunteering with a local police department that happened to have a position opened while she was there. Jennifer explains how a partnership between the police department and fire department works, leading into her badge story about arson and false reporting.