BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT | BOSTON REGIONAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER Alexa Lambros, Class of 2018

The BRIC interns with the BPD Chief of Police! MY ROLE: ASSISTANT CRIME ANALYST/RESEARCH ASSISTANT SPECIAL PROJECT

• Mission/Goal Community policing; “working in partnership with the community to fight crime, STANDARD RESPONSIBILITIES reduce fear and improve the quality of life in our • Took raw data from UASI neighborhoods” (BPDnews.com) DAILY INFORMATION INFORMATION crime mapping database of all property stolen from • Size 20th largest LEA in the country; 3rd largest in SUMMARY REQUESTS • Fulfilled information retrieval 9/2015 – 2/2016 New England (Wikipedia) • Assembled packets of recent gang • Utilized Excel skills to • Organization 8 Bureaus and 12 districts incidents and summarized reports requests for Boston/UASI police, correctional, and probation officers organize/categorize data • Focus/Success Utilizes unique combination of • Researched arrests from Urban • Evaulated relationships community relations and statistical analysis to Area Security Initiative (UASI) between numerous elements of reduce crime throughout city; over the last four districts and summarized reports BULLETINS collected data and drew decades, Boston has achieved a large decrease in • Compiled incident summaries on • Created ID Wanted, Wanted, relevant conclusions its overall crime rate (BPDnews.com) violent and property crime within Missing Person, and BOLO bulletins • IMPORTANCE: Created Boston and UASI districts into BRIC's at request of Boston/UASI officers infographic representing data daily bulletin and distributed to BOSTON REGIONAL (see right) which was INTELLIGENCE CENTER appropriate parties IMPORTANCE: necessary work that dissemiated to entire department for awareness A numbers-only version of this summary (which analysts do not have time to do, but BRIC the interns tally) is released on BPD’s Facebook BPD relies on every day to keep the public informed • Established in 2005 as a fusion center to coordinate work of the federal government, private sector, and

law enforcement agencies of the nine towns in the SKILLS USED IN JOB OUTCOMES Me with a Boston Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI; Boston, sword the • Trend recognition in crimes occurring across the city, Chief had in Chelsea, Everett, Winthrop, Brookline, Cambridge, • Learned about MA-specific law and a his office Somerville, Quincy, Revere) which required close attention to detail variety of crimes (violent crime, property “museum” • Employs “critical liaison personnel” including • Exercising efficient work ethic in order to meet daily crime, drug crime, gang crime, etc.) representatives from: deadlines • Got a closer look at what types of crimes Massachusetts State Police • Prioritizing tasks and requests based on their police are prioritizing Boston EMS importance • Assisted one of the nation’s top police Boston Fire Department • Communication with other interns, analysts, and BPD department intelligence units with crucial Department of Homeland Security personnel to ease flow of information information analysis and dissemination FBI Boston Field Office • Collects/analyzes intelligence to aid BPD in making INTEGRATION IN CLASS FUTURE DIRECTIONS “more informed decisions to combat crime and terrorism committed by individuals and organizations” • CRIM 1100 Community policing, police subculture, • While my plan is to go into violent crime research, I » Gathers information related to gang activity, command structure, due process/probable cause, and now know that I truly enjoy working in intelligence violent crime, and property crime prioritizing actions applied to real policing analysis and would seriously consider returning to the » Works closely with the U.S. Department of • Independent Study Played a part in Compstat and BRIC if my future in research does not pan out as Homeland Security to collect/analyze crime mapping, topics I previously researched expected counterterrorism intelligence Source: BPDnews.com NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY CRIM 4000