LPRC - SPECIAL RE-RELEASE: CrimeScience Episode 36 – The Importance of IMPACT 2019

Episode Date: March 12, 2026

2026 LPRC IMPACT is next week! Take a listen to this hidden gem from 2019 LPRC IMPACT. In a special episode of CrimeScience, we feature insights from IMPACT veterans, industry partners, retailers, and technology partners on why LPRC IMPACT is the conference to attend!

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by visiting Bosch Online at Boschsecurity.com. We're here live at LPRC's Impact 2019, and I'm here with Rick Peck, a good personal friend and a mentor of mine, and we're going to just talk a little bit about the LPRC. Again, today we're going to be live, actually today and tomorrow, we'll be live audio and video for the crime science podcast, and we're just going to be talking to members and visitors, some law enforcement folks. So Rick, what can you tell the listeners about LPRC impact that differentiates it from some of the other conferences

that you attend? Yeah, I think probably the first thing that comes to mind is for me, LPRC, although this is the moment in time and the big high point of the year, LPRC is really year-round. So the work that is done here, whether it be research or various points of collaboration, it's really an everyday event. This just happens to be in the moment of time. where we gather everyone together and talk about some of the successes so

what's a differentiator for me and so as long as I've been involved in the LPRC you have and I you know what is it for you know what does it mean for your team and the people that you have a big organization so what does it mean for what does the LPRC mean for them yeah a couple of things well one the dedicated work that they are involved in absolutely benefits our company you know we face a number of the same problems as do most of the retailers here so there's some commonality but I think even more importantly all the different people that have been involved to date and over time there's something that they get out of it

for themselves right some personal development working with others working on teams right it's a different rhythm than they're used to in their day jobs and I think they benefit from that as well so yesterday so you know pseudo day one it's actually the first day is normally a golfing event and you know the welcome reception but there was an LPF foundation and joint venture with LPRC a learning day. Can you tell the listeners a little bit about that? I know you had the opportunity to be a part of that. Can tell the listeners about that? Yeah, I'd be excited to. So the Loss Prevention Foundation, you know, is one of many organizations that support our industry in terms of,

again, development, content, you know, knowledge, growth, all the way through, you know, certifications. You know, I'm proud to say I'm an LPC, LP certified and, you know, what it took to get that. I spoke yesterday, really, about not only the value of that, through my experience but also more importantly just about all the careers that exist today within our industry so many business units within an LP department just based on the problems that we face so I talked a little bit about that and hopefully encouraged and interested in some people to learn a little bit more was about a hundred people many of people in the room were students and you know if I

planted the seed with them about an opportunity for the future then I probably would have done my job great thank you so much for being on I really appreciate yeah good to see you yeah thank you as well So I'm very excited. A special guest, Amber Bradley is here. Hello, hello. Why don't you tell the listeners of what you're working on? You're working on so much stuff.

Yeah, it's crazy. It's fun. So owner of the Calibration Group, we have a lot of stuff going on. But we are here at the LPRC Impact Conference representing RLPSA. So for those that don't know, RLPSA, Restaurant, Loss Prevention and Security Association, it's a mouthful. We go by RLPSA. And we're excited about our new partnership with LPRC, really getting into the restaurant space of understanding

a lot of things that are happening in the restaurant world, like disruptive guests or drug use in the bathrooms, like all of these things that we're excited to partner with LPRC to study and potentially even have a site here in Gainesville that we can do some real lab work. So this is my first time an impact. Wow. Is that ridiculous?

That is ridiculous. So we're super excited to have you as a member. And I think the partnerships are forged in and we're changing and it's evolving. So your first impact. Yes. So now I have to ask the question. What do you think? I know you've been to a million different conferences.

What do you think about impact? It's been a million different ones. And while my heart remains with RLPSA, impact is a close second. I'm very excited at all the networking. It feels like family here, which is nice because a lot of people have been coming to this conference for a long time. A lot of people are new. the largest attendance ever, which is phenomenal.

Congratulations to LPRC on that. But so far, so good. I mean, it's really interesting. Wanted to come here and see what the results were. I know LPRC has a lot going on all the time with, what, 60 plus projects now. So wanted to come here and understand what research is going on in the industry and what the results are. So first impact, new member, you got so much stuff going on. And for the listeners of the crime science podcast, our listener base is academic, federal and local law enforcement, retail.

You also have a podcast. Yes. I'll listen to about that. Love the segue into that. So, yes, talklp.com is a podcast totally different from crime science, which we love. TalkLP loves crime science. We're like a marriage of podcasts here. Talklp.com is really more totally unscripted.

We never know where it's going. And I think most people get that with me when they have no idea what I'm going to say, which, you know, I don't either. It works out. And we have all different kinds of guests. Some are going to be related to LP. We're interviewing some retail executives. And we're also interviewing all different people.

Trying to really just have a little fun. I want to, it's like edutainment. I just merged two words. Slap me. Slap me in the face. I was waiting for it. It's terrible. Yeah, I don't think I made that up, but it's embarrassing.

I used it. It is, though, it is relatively off, totally off the cuff. So for everybody listening, and we're taping video today, which is unusual for us, we don't always do video. Educatement is the word of the day. And so everybody can take that with it. And I sense, you know, I have a really good sense of the future. I think that we'll probably do some stuff together with some podcasts.

Yes, we love to be on the edgainment podcast. We'd love to have you on podcasts. Yes, and I would be remiss not to mention my co-host, Dave Thompson, on TalkLP.com. He's with Wicklanders-Zalowski. So, yeah, we bring a little bit of interviewing into it. I mean, we had one with Lisa Mitchell that's coming out on the behavioral part of things. We just interviewed Adrian Beck on the research he's got going on. So we're all over the place, and that's how we're all over the place.

over the place and that's how we like it. Very good. Well thank you so much for stopping by. Yeah, thanks for having me. I really appreciate it and we will be talking on crime science again and congratulations on LPRC. It's been awesome. Thank you again. Stay tuned for another guest. We're taping live here from LPRC's 2019 impact and I'm here with a very special guest, Chad McIntosh, who's actually one of the founders and longtime member of the LPRC. This is a special episode. We're going to be talking to people throughout the next two days on the floor live and we're doing audio and video. So when you hear this on your podcast of choice, you will see that there'll be different topics that are discussed from many

different people over the next two days. So Chad, thanks for joining us. Thank you, Tom. Great to be here. So, Chad, I mean, you've been in this since the beginning. Can you talk to the listeners through kind of what the evolution has been like and what you've seen over the past? How long has it been Well, so it's been about 20 years, really, that LPR's been around and active, but it's actually older than that. It's probably eight years before that. King Rogers was talking to Reed Hayes, before he was a doctor, by the way, about the philosophy and the thinking of kind of bringing retailers together with solution providers, really to

apply science behind solutions to really identify what was working effectively for a a retailer. Great. And with the, you know, the LPRC is different than some of the other organizations. And I know that I'm often asked, you know, how do I, you know, join and what should I participate in and you really can't participate in everything. For folks that have never been to an LPRC impact conference or had the opportunity to be involved in the LPRC, what are some things that you could share with them versus some of the other industry organizations out there? Well, this is the best conference today, without a doubt. It's intimate. But it's where science to practice is actually very real and in your face.

You have a great understanding from solution providers and retailers and the LPRC and the science behind it and how things are really working. So if you're not at impact, you are missing out on the real science behind solutions today. So if you're not here this year coming 2020, because this thing is not here. has grown into something that is very, very special. Well, Chad, I think you said it all. Thank you very much for being a guest.

You're welcome. Good to see you as I. Always happy to be with you. Thanks for listening to the Crime Science Podcast presented by the Lost Prevention Research Council and sponsored by Bosch Security. If you enjoyed today's episode, you can find more crime science episodes and value information at LPRsearch.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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