Simsi - Crime Prevention Strategies & Tools

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@iadlest do you have an LMS departments can use to distribute training content? just an option, but our ActionHub LMS is free for departments to use. it allows them to distribute internal training courses and track completion. happy to chat some time if it might be helpful (- @jparishy)

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check it out: 5 steps to creating place-based crime interventions that are sustainable and work open.substack.com/pub/simsipubli…

@LessCrime very cool history!

Today mark‘s the 200th anniversary of the founding of UCL, London’s first university. Apparently, right from the start UCL was looked down on by some for being too egalitarian, because we admitted (male) students regardless of religion or background!

@OSPolicing Definitely agree. If you ever want to see if our ActionHub platform can model SCOPE as intended, I'd be happy to assist. Not trying to shill. Just think it's cool, and being able to institutionalize any existing model is one of the design goals of AH

@SimsiInc Good advice Big meetings don't work. People have limited time & want to know what's in it for them. Someone needs to "own" the tasks. We can be more effective by working with "communities of interest," and we can involve more officers at very low cost. safetyanalytics.us/SCOPE_Communit…

5 Practical Tips for Community Engagement in Public Safety Engaging the community is a powerful tool for Public Safety; it should not be an afterthought open.substack.com/pub/simsipubli…

Why Good Policing Strategies Stall and How to Fix Them: Most intelligence-led systems were designed to describe problems, not to manage the lifecycle of the response. Intelligence is briefed in meetings, but execution happens across shifts, units, and partner agencies—often with zero real-time feedback loops. The result is operational drag. Instead of driving action, leaders are left piecing together anecdotal updates to determine if strategies are being carried out and if conditions are actually improving. Read more at: simsi.com/articles/why-g…

What to Do When Hotspot Policing Stops Working open.substack.com/pub/simsipubli…

@crimeanalysts @TXLEAN1 Conference 2023 by the numbers! #CrimeAnalysts2023 ✅ 3 more days of training ✅ 3 more sessions covering Risk Terrain Modeling & @SimsiInc ✅ 1 more day to stop by Booth 210 in the exhibit hall! 🤠 0 reasons to not swing by and say "Howdy"

What are ‘Risk Narratives’ simsi.com/articles/risk-…

NEW ORLEANS: ‘risk narratives’ change the conversation about crime problems & solutions “Understanding why those particular place are risky… we have an opportunity… to understand what’s going on w/in our actual police districts & do something about it…”wgno.com/news/local/ris…

Crime hot spots are chronic illegal behavior settings. There’s compelling evidence to focus on certain types of environmental features at chronically crime-prone places. See how at the BLOG 👀 simsi.com/articles/behav…

Andy Horn joins the Simsi Team w professional experience in both public safety & gov tech Simsi is fortunate to have Andy enhance & support the important work of our client partners in the US & around the world We're thrilled to have you as our Director of Growth!

The Simsi Team will b there! Hear directly from existing RTM’ers about why there’s now more cities/towns than ever before that rely on Simsi software for public safety Resource deployments, community engagement, crime prevention & more See evidence: simsi.com/articles/crime…

Oct 14-17. SAVE THE DATES for the 2023 @TheIACP Conference & Expo. Join the Simsi Team in #SanDiego to find out who’ll be this year’s recipient of the 🏆 Leadership in Law Enforcement Research Award 🏆 theiacp.org/awards/iacpsim…

Today we’re back in time in #Paris. Testing 2023 live tracking updates to the @SimsiInc Mobile App with 2012 RTM analysis currently displayed 🗺️

TY Cambridgeshire Constabulary for hosting @jparishy, @lefkennedy99, & me for today’s Risk Terrain Modeling seminar. TY Sutherland 4 ur hospitality. Wonderful opportunity to meet analysts, police, & other public safety professionals from around the country.

Today’s workshop at ARU in Cambridge was engaging. All 3 @SimsiInc co-founders attended to help lead the convo: @jparishy, @lefkennedy99, @JoelCaplan Multiple professional perspectives were represented. Good questions and lots of beneficial takeaways Thank you Paul for hosting!

The Simsi Team is in the United Kingdom! Find us at one of the many scheduled events this week during our #ProfessionalDevelopment, #Training and #Listening tour.