LPRC - CrimeScience – The Weekly Review – Episode 190

Episode Date: August 8, 2024

This week our host discusses the latest in LPRC news, research, visitors, and events! In this episode, our hosts discuss the latest INNOVATE Planning, SaferPlaces Expansions, 2025 Integrate Planning, visitors in the labs, and a look at the latest IMPACT planning walk throughs. Listen in to stay updated on hot topics in the industry and more!

Hi, everyone, and welcome to Crime Science. In this podcast, we explore the science of crime and the practical application of this science for loss prevention and asset protection practitioners as well as other professionals. Welcome, everybody, to another episode of Crime Science, the podcast. This is one of our special update editions. What we're going to do is talk a little bit about what's going on at the LPRC. Great visits and engagements more appropriately this week with two of our senior advisors for the LPRC Innovate program, Tom Arrigge and Mike Lamb. LAM. Tom is the VP of Asset Protection at American Freight, a major furniture retailer across the United States. Formerly very senior roles at Kroger Company at Walmart with Sears and so forth. And just an amazing guy, extremely knowledgeable, very professional.

And I've long taken advantage of his experience, his expertise, his wise counsel, and even his style, his leadership style and so on. Very, very powerful. Also, of course, with Mike Lamb, former VP at Kroger Company, Walmart, and the Home Depot, and formerly of Rich's before that. So just planning with them, the Innovate program, the process, leadership, going through the major projects that we're doing in the field and Safer Places Lab program in Fort St. Lucie, Gainesville, and then upcoming in Atlanta, Albuquerque, and it looks like a little bit Detroit and beyond. So looking at those, looking at the integrate program, the highly realistic scenarios that

we've done in the past two, and then what's up coming up in the next one, as well as impact and what we're trying to do there with the Innovate program and with Strategy At. So those are some of the things that we got to cover. And it was very productive meetings, a lot of good brainstorming, a lot of great ideas, wise counsel from those gentlemen. We also have ThinkLP in the labs today, a great group, very thoughtful, working hard to pull together a lot of data, help retailers get more out of what they're trying to get done by being much more precise and focused, by being much better informed, by more seamlessly moving data and information from the data around the organization and able to share that as well. We also had some of our impact planning team in for the 2024 LPRC Impact Conference. And in that case, those guys working with us, led by Fred Becker, the leader of the IMPACT program, Fred of Bloomingdale's.

He's the director of AP for New York, which is a big job. And so they, again, very helpful, went through all the content with our research team that each went through and briefed. And we had, by the way, several uh aplp leaders online as well via teams call they went through very carefully through each and every proposed session for impact went through what they were trying to get done why and how and what they found and what it means um to kind of tailor things to see if something should be uh deleted uh or added to and so on and how to best make where should it fit in should it be a lightning or fast session should it be a little bit longer breakout should it be a main stage and things like that so it's been a busy week

continues to be a busy week here at LPRC in Gainesville. A lot of other calls and things happening, not enough time to talk about all that. One thing I did want to take a little bit of time and talk about some of the integrations again. We're working on both emergent and, I hate to use the term routine, but ongoing operations might be a better one than emergent. But what we're working on there, of course, is looking at the platforms, Fusis by Axon, Motorola Solutions package that they've got called Command Central Aware, another powerful program, Flock OS, to name three that our team is working to integrate all of our LPR, our cameras, and other sensors into, think drones, think our two twin robots that have cameras and so on on them and microphones. So think about how we're linking that, body-worn cameras, simulated dash cams,

and what you'll hear about later in the future here are sensor trees, the sensors there, into each of those programs, right? And those programs can help during emergent primarily, but also as part of ongoing security operations, right? So, getting those all labeled and creating a master list of each and every one of our sensors. What is it? What type of sensor is it? Camera, LIDAR, radio, computerized radio, you know, whatever we can go on. What's the brand what's the name of that unit so where's it placed and so on in other words serial number ip address and things like that so we have a master list of sensors that we're loading into and integrating into each of the platforms that can be again used in our sock lab our command center on the big screens, as well as on our mobile devices on the phones.

So a lot happening there. It's pretty exciting. We're getting ready to deploy our covert camera unit on Friday of this week. Looks like everything's set and done. More about that in future episodes, but in this case, in the University of Florida and LPRC Safer Places Lab, in this case Eastside, to help us get a whole lot of analytical data around people and vehicle movement through time and space by time of day, by day of week, and all that sort of thing as baselines before we start with the physical visual interventions to see how did the those interventions singularly individually and then in combinations do they seem to alter behavior both good and not so good so that's happening this week we're putting together

second sensor tree which again we'll talk more about that later. Impact continues to grow. We're at record enrollment levels, well over 200 already. Again, we had over 500 last year. That's probably our aiming point. But we could be anywhere between 450 and 650 enrollees. It looks like at the pace we're on right now, it looks like it's above 500. It's not about crowds.

It's not about a mob scene here. But we have more content than we've ever had. And we're generating more every week than we've ever been able to in the past because the team is so capable now. And so I think you're seeing a record enrollment because more people want to be here in gainesville at impact and get engaged in the networking but also in the learning part which is the key um so that's just some of the highlights from gainesville um and how we're looking at the world. We'll talk in the future about drone

operations, what we're doing. We have three drones right now. That's probably going to double in size because we're going to add a few more manufacturers. And again, with drones, there are blue lists. In other words, that on state and federal property or state or federal operations, and that goes beyond that in some cases, it's now not approved to use drone or other camera devices that were produced in certain countries that the U.S. government has deemed hostile. So more to come on what we're doing with the drones for surveillance, first response, for other special operations, using them in tandem with other sensors. So excited to talk with the group about that. I want to thank Diego Rodriguez for his production and his patience with three world travelers here trying to corral us, wrangle us, and get stuff out on the air through all the podcast platforms. Any information, any ideas, any things you think that we should do to just adapt and improve? ideas, any things you think that we should do to just adapt and improve. And I keep saying this,

teasing this, if you will, that we're going to be, we're making some enhancements to the Crime Science Podcast. There's a lot of reaching out to a lot of people and lining them up as guests and coming up with format changes. We won't see a huge change, but you're going to see a little bit. And then we'll take it from there. So without further ado, please stay safe and stay in touch with LPRC and with Crime Science Podcast. Thanks for listening to the Crime Science Podcast presented by the Loss Prevention Research Council. If you enjoyed today's episode, you can find more crime science episodes and valuable information at lpresearch.org. The content provided in the Crime Science Podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for legal, financial, or other advice.

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