Speaking kit
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Each is tailored to the audience. Recordings of past talks are on Talks & Writing.
Retail, security, and LP leaders
How crime risk around a store, not just inside it, should shape staffing, investment, and organized retail crime strategy.
Given at: NRF Protect, Loss Prevention Foundation, LPRC IMPACT
Executives, communications teams, general audiences
How to read crime headlines and statistics with healthy skepticism, and where data gaps since COVID can mislead decisions.
Given at: DSAC, Loss Prevention Media series
Police, city, and community audiences
Why a small share of places carries most crime, how routines and seasons shift that risk, and what to do with the answer.
Given at: CAST, CASDAL workshops
Police leadership and researchers
Diagnosing the features of the environment that make places risky, with results from Kansas City, Atlantic City, and beyond.
Given at: International Conference on Crime Risk Analysis, IACA, Córdoba Province training
Crime and intelligence analysts
A working session: clean an incident export, find repeat locations and hot streets, and build a briefing. Attendees leave with the free Toolkit.
Given at: IACA (two sessions), CASDAL
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Grant Drawve, PhD, is Vice President of Geospatial Crime Solutions at CAP Index, where he built the Research & Innovation division. A spatial criminologist and former associate professor at the University of Arkansas, he hosts The Geography of Crime podcast.
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Grant Drawve, PhD, is Vice President of Geospatial Crime Solutions at CAP Index, a crime risk scoring and modeling company. He was hired to build its Research & Innovation division, which has brought four crime risk products to market, and he leads a team of crime and data analysts. He is CAP’s research partner to the Retail Industry Leaders Association on its Vibrant Communities Initiative. Before CAP, he spent seven years on the criminology faculty at the University of Arkansas, where he led more than $2.7 million in funded research with police agencies and community partners. He hosts The Geography of Crime podcast.
Keynote introductions and press · 206 words
Grant Drawve, PhD, studies how place shapes crime and public safety, and works to make that research usable by the people who act on it. He is Vice President of Geospatial Crime Solutions at CAP Index, a crime risk scoring and modeling company, where he was hired to build the Research & Innovation division. The division has since brought four crime risk products to market. He leads a team of crime and data analysts and is CAP’s research partner to the Retail Industry Leaders Association on its Vibrant Communities Initiative in Atlantic City, NJ and Clackamas County, OR.
Before CAP, Dr. Drawve was an associate professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Arkansas and associate director of its Crime & Security Data Analytics Lab. He has served as principal or co-principal investigator on more than $2.7 million in research funded by NIJ, NSF, BJA, DHS, and OJJDP. He was a winner of the National Institute of Justice Real-Time Crime Forecasting Challenge, and his risk-based policing work in Atlantic City was featured on National Geographic’s Breakthrough. He holds a PhD in criminal justice from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and hosts The Geography of Crime podcast and a free library of crime-analysis tutorials.
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Our next speaker built a crime risk research division from the ground up and spent seven years teaching criminology before that. Please welcome the Vice President of Geospatial Crime Solutions at CAP Index, Dr. Grant Drawve.
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