ATWJE - Matthew Douglas - Power of the Pen

Episode: 00220 Released on July 8, 2024 Description: In this episode, Matthew Douglas shares how he built rapport with officers and instilled trust and confidence in analytics. Matthew started his career as an intern and worked his way up to a supervisory position. Matthew shares a couple of badge stories related to DDACTS and a STAR report where he optimized data for strategic planning that helped reduced traffic accidents and improved public safety. Matthew is a champion for data and uses his influence and connections to promote effective usage of it. Matthew is currently the Law Enforcement Analyst Director in Schenectady, New York.

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Name Drops: Dr. Nathan Meehan (00:01:04)

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Related Links:  https://www.iadlest.org/
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/data-driven-approaches-crime-and-traffic-safety-ddacts-operational
https://www.cpted.net/
https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-dashboards/overview 

Association(s) Mentioned: IADLEST, DDACTS

Vendor(s) Mentioned: ESRI

Contact: 

Transcript: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/2ar583qrgw8a4dgk/MattDouglas_transcript.pdf

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00:00:17 – Introducing Matt
00:03:55 – Internship
00:11:40 – Analyst to Manager
00:17:38 – ABS: DDACTS
00:28:32 – Break:  Dawn Clausius & Manny San Pedro 
00:29:35 – ABS:  Threshold Analysis
00:35:27 – ABS:  CPTED
00:43:47 – ABS:  ERSI Dashboards
00:53:47 – Advice & Hiring
01:01:24 – Personal Interests: 
01:05:30 – Words to the World