Chief William Jessup: South Milwaukee Police Department, South Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Many smaller law enforcement agencies struggle to make good deployment decisions based on limited information, and when I joined the South Milwaukee Police Department, I noticed that this lack of actionable intelligence was a weakness we needed to address.  In January, 2023 we were accepted into BJA’s Crime Analyst in Residence Program (CAR) and for the first time we received the training we needed to make use of our existing data.  With the assistance of our embedded analyst, Amanda Bruner, and with the support of Project Manager, Kaitlin Moloney, our agency is now able to extract data and create reports that help us make better tactical and strategic decisions.  And, this program did not require the purchase of expensive software products; they simply taught us to leverage existing data and trained our members to make sense of this information.  I would highly recommend this program to departments that want to be more effective and efficient in identifying crime patterns and trends.  Thank you to the CAR team for this exceptional training opportunity!