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Director of Performance Analytics & Research (PA&R) and Senior Research Scientist for, Seattle PoliceLoren T. Atherley serves as Director of Performance Analytics & Research (PA&R) and the Senior Research Scientist for the Seattle Police Department. The PA&R group represents the department’s commitment to internal performance, evaluation, and advanced research methods capabilities, developed to demonstrate compliance with a federal Consent Decree. Loren leads a regional research consortium, a national data working group on Analytics & Evidence Based Policing and an international research network. In addition, Loren consults across the criminal justice and data sciences on topics including statistics and research methods, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, Evidence-Based Policing, police behavior, police management, threat assessment / threat management and violent / aggressive / psychopathic behavior. Loren is a NIJ LEADS Scholar and inductee to the George Mason University Evidence-Based Policing Hall of Fame, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice at Seattle University. Loren holds a Master of Arts in Criminal Justice from Seattle University (MACJ), where he completed a thesis on behavioral profiling and serial sexual homicide, the Green River Killer, and the offender Gary L. Ridgway. Loren is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge. |
Concurrent Session Two – Policing Partners: How data is changing policing
State and local public safety agencies are exploring new ways to collect, store, and analyze large amounts of data to improve emergency response, criminal investigations, and operational excellence. The Seattle Police Department is finding this data extremely valuable, and has modernized their systems by migrating to the cloud. In this session, you’ll hear from a panel of public safety thought leaders, discussing the impact that data and cloud computing will have on policing, strategies to better use data for mission, common challenges and pitfalls to avoid, and what this all means for your agency and community.