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  • 2015-02-05 8:18 AM | Adam Hoskins (Administrator)

    The attendees at the 32nd ISCPP Symposium in Detroit, Michigan, USA, “stopped in the name of crime prevention”! The Symposium was held October 8-10, 2014. The Pre-Symposium classes were held October 6-8, 2014 and featured:  International Crime Prevention Specialist Training & Testing instructed by Justin Baumgartner, ICPS, John DiPietro, ICPS, Rick Davis, ICPS, Tom Poe, ICPS and Bruce Wall, ICPS. 

    Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design taught by Art Hushen, ICPS.  

    Counter Terrorism Prevention taught by Samuel Bashan of LORIN Training. 

    Conference Chair Jacob Mouro, ICPS and his team presented a first rate Symposium on a variety of crime prevention topics. The keynote address was presented by Detroit Police Chief James E. Craig. 

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  • 2015-02-05 8:17 AM | Adam Hoskins (Administrator)

    I would like to begin with thanking our now immediate past President David T. Gabel, ICPS for all that he has done for the ISCPP during his term. While shared in person at the Symposium, I feel it deserves to be shared with the entire ISCPP membership.

    David led the ISCPP through some tough times, had to make some tough decisions, all while maintaining the same, if not better level of service to our members. In such times we were able to accomplish so many things, from a curriculum update and new website to increased membership services and streamlined organizational processes. David also played an instrumental role in our recent growth in Region 8 (Asia Pacific). Please join me in thanking David for the successes the ISCPP was able to achieve! 

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  • 2015-02-05 8:15 AM | Adam Hoskins (Administrator)

    This research of New Haven, CT (USA), presented at the 32nd International Crime Prevention Symposium on October 9, 2014, is based on the Space Syntax Theory saying that pedestrian movement strongly correlates with some topological properties of urban spaces, such as integration of spaces, depth etc. 

    Residential burglaries in New Haven from one, two, three and four family residential houses have been investigated, not taking into account burglaries from apartments. The research has been performed using the segment maps of the city, where the segment is the shortest path which uses the least number of streets (actually the least number of “interjunction” stretches of street) to get to your destination (according to B. Hillier‘s Space Syntax Method). 

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  • 2015-02-05 8:15 AM | Adam Hoskins (Administrator)

    Sholdit Clutch Wrap Scarf 

    This innovative product is the woman’s stylish variation on a man's money belt. The scarf/wrap has one pocket for a purse and another for a cell phone. It can be cinched to fit the person. The cost is $49.99, available from most internet retailers

    RFID Blocking Leather Wallet

     The first generation of RFID blocking wallets were unyielding metal or something that looked like it was made at home using tinfoil. 

  • 2015-02-05 8:14 AM | Adam Hoskins (Administrator)

    Some of the questions asked of every Symposium Chair over the years by those not fortunate to attend are, “do you have any of the presentations on video tape so we can watch them?” and “would you consider live streaming the Symposium” 

    Perhaps one year we’ll get to the point of live streaming or make downloads of the presentations available - but if you don’t attend, you miss the most important part, NETWORKING! 

    The point was made very well by ICPS Instructor John DiPietro, ICPS during the ICPS Training. He asked everyone to stand up during a break and walk around with a business card and introduce themselves to someone they didn’t know. As he said later, “you just got something that is better than any webinar you ever attended or will attend. You just networked with someone”! 

  • 2015-02-05 8:12 AM | Adam Hoskins (Administrator)

    Last week, Apple announced that it is closing a serious security vulnerability in the iPhone. It used to be that the phone's encryption only protected a small amount of the data, and Apple had the ability to bypass security on the rest of it.

    From now on, all the phone's data is protected. It can no longer be accessed by criminals, governments, or rogue employees. Access to it can no longer be demanded by totalitarian governments. A user's iPhone data is now more secure.

    To hear US law enforcement respond, you'd think Apple's move heralded an unstoppable crime wave. See, the FBI had been using that vulnerability to get into people's iPhones. In the words of cyberlaw professor Orin Kerr, "How is the public interest served by a policy that only thwarts lawful search warrants?" 

  • 2014-07-21 9:12 AM | Adam Hoskins (Administrator)

    Last issue, I was discussing the CPTED process as it provided a holistic methodology to meet the challenges of crime and terrorism with organizational methods. 

      For example, if one of the outcomes of a threat analysis for a government building is the challenge of a truck bomb, and the goal is to distance a potential  bomb from the building, then the CPTED approach would propose careful consideration of:

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  • 2014-07-21 9:11 AM | Adam Hoskins (Administrator)

    Your Board of Directors met last month to discuss the issues of our organization.  There are a lot of good things to tell you about.

          Our Membership Team working with our Web Team have created the new membership renewal process.  If your membership has been up for renewal in the last 6 months, then you’ve probably received the automatic emails that give you notice and an invoice to submit to your agency for renewal. 

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  • 2014-07-21 9:10 AM | Adam Hoskins (Administrator)

    ISCPP Awards

            At every ISCPP Symposium, we  recognize the best crime prevention programs, organizations and practitioners.  This program is our ISCPP Crime Prevention Awards. 

            Only current members of the ISCPP may nominate a person, program or organization to receive the award.  There are specific criteria and the deadline to submit nominations is July 1, 2014, but we will extend the nomination deadline to August 1, 2014.

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  • 2014-07-21 9:09 AM | Adam Hoskins (Administrator)

    Nextdoor Social Networking for Police, government and neighborhoods

            Nextdoor is a private social network designed to allow police, municipal governments and neighborhoods to communicate. 

            The Nextdoor program verifies that residents actually live in the neighborhood that they register.  Neighbors can discuss issues with other neighbors knowing that other people can’t view the discussions. Police and municipal governments can post real time information affecting their neighborhood and receive responses back from residents. Municipal governments can also post issues and discuss them with the residents.

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