Better Training for Law Enforcement - The Science of Active Threat Assessment

On this episode, we discuss the new science of active threat assessment with Dr. Nathan Meehan. Our guest is the Director of Research and Development for Second Sight Training Systems, an organization that offers evidence-based training in threat assessment to law enforcement, security, and military personnel. From crowded streets, to theater halls, to ports and refugee camps, identifying threats and efficiently filtering one's attentional spotlight can be the difference between life and death for those who work and live in complex environments. By basing law enforcement officer (LEO) training in the science of psychology, criminology, and nonverbal behavior, the field can move away from failed ad-hominem profiling techniques of the past and toward a new science of threat assessment & detection that  uses behavioral indicators as a guide to  visual search. 

Keywords: security, crime detection, police training, visual search, nonverbal cues, forensic psychology.
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Our Guest:
"Dr. Meehan led the JDLR Project research team while he was a Social Scientist at the United States Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Adversarial Modeling Exploitation Office. At the NRL, he also successfully managed a variety of short- and long-term projects for the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security on topics ranging from crime analysis to the development of web-based research platforms for visual search. He earned his Ph.D. at the School of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York Albany.  Dr. Meehan is also a Certified Law Enforcement Analyst and worked as the Lead Crime and Intelligence Analyst.  As an analyst, he also assisted on an FBI Operation Safe Streets (OSS) Taskforce targeting violent gang members."


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