Dates:             (Schedule as requested. If interested in future academy dates, please 
                       send us an email so we can keep you informed.)

Registration:  Limited to 50 per academy. $795.00 Includes: books, follow-up
                       videos, & course curriculum.

Academy Objective
The goal of this four-day academy is to significantly improve an officer’s ability to effectively interview, investigate, and develop rapport with juveniles to preemptively thwart catastrophic acts of terrorism, gang formation, and other illegal activities. While the emphasis will be directed towards crime-prevention, most of the skills can be used for on-going investigations, arrests, confrontations, developing rapport and trust, etc. Additionally, many of the skills and techniques can be utilized when interacting with adults.

Finally, a central theme that is promoted throughout the week is: The Art of Treating People Right the First Time. Regardless if one is interrogating a suspect or working to build community trust, understanding who is in front of you and how they should be treated uniquely is emphasized throughout the week . . . and without stereotyping, such as racial stereotyping. The strategies that are taught have been proven effective in all cultural and socio-economic environments and promote treating each person uniquely in a way that they deserve to be treated.

History
Dan Korem, the critically acclaimed author of The Art of Profiling—Reading People Right the First Time and Suburban Gangs—The Affluent Rebels, has personally trained thousands of officers in the US, Canada, and Europe. In addition to predicting the suburban/small-town gang trend in the mid-1980s, in the early 1990s, he predicted the random bombing/shooting trend in our schools based upon his research of why there are random shooters in the Post Office but not UPS. His cumulative research and practical methods have resulted in hundreds of requests for an in-depth, one-week academy that focuses on real-time usable skills, tool, and perspective, as well as his proven prevention strategy, the Missing Protector Strategy.

What You Will Learn
• How to identify a juvenile or adult behavioral profile within a few minutes of interaction (in most cases), and use this skill to more effectively: Conduct Interviews & Interrogations, Investigate Juvenile Crime; Engage a youth during a confrontation.
• Key child development issues when conducting an interview or investigation.
• How to preemptively identify the Random Actor youth, like those in the Littleton, Colorado incident, and thwart a terrorist incident.
• New juvenile crime trends, such as the new leftist/anarchist gangs.
• The Missing Protector Strategy—Proven strategy that stops most at-risk youth behavior, including: gang recruitment, suicide, chronic drug use, truancy, and teen pregnancy.

Applications
Each day’s content will be taught in the context of the following applications/objectives:
• Interviewing juveniles and adults
• Interrogating juveniles and adults
• Investigating juvenile crime
• Engaging youths during a confrontation
• Deterring Random Actor terrorist violence
• Deterring youths from illegal activities
• Reducing juvenile crime
• Recognition of new gangs (such as leftist gangs) and new forms of juvenile crime

Who Should Attend
Any officer who desires to more effectively interact with juveniles, including:
• Student Resource Officer (SRO)
• Student Liaison Officer         
• Detective 
• Crime Prevention Officer    
• Probation Officer 
• Hostage Negotiator 
• Gang Investigator

Interactive, Team Format
Over $40,000 of state-of-the-art interactive keypads are employed as participants skills are tested throughout the week to validate comprehension and retention. For example, participants will view video clips of real youths in real situations to test behavioral recognition and interaction skills. The class, which is broken out into ten teams that compete, then work together to identify behavioral profiles and strategies for interaction. Participants then enter their responses on their own individual keypad, which is immediately tracked and the results displayed on the screen at the front of the class. This provides a world-class environment for instructor-participant-team interaction. The typical participant starts at about 25% behavioral recognition accuracy, and finishes at about 75% accuracy.

Academy Faculty
Each faculty member is internationally recognized for their expertise, as well as their presentation skills to keep participants actively involved.
• Dan Korem—International authority on juvenile crime trends and behavioral profiling. Click here for more.
• Detective Albert Kirby—The Superintendent of Homicide for the LIverpool Police in England. He was the lead investigator in the high-profile Bulger case in which a ten and eleven year old were charged with murder in the death of a two year old. He is currently a commentator on crime for the BBC. Click here for more.

Curriculum Overview (subject to modification) 
Behavioral Profiling, Part-One
Overview: Participants will learn how to identify core behavioral traits to identify a comprehensive behavioral profile within a few minutes of interaction.
• How to identify the four key behavioral traits that will enable one to identify how a person is likely to: Communicate, Perform Tasks, and Make Decisions.
• Four Rules for Systematic Accuracy.
• How to avoid stereotyping, like racial stereotyping. Click here for more

Behavioral Profiling, Part-Two
Overview: Refinement of identifying behavioral traits and using the Comprehensive Profile.
• How to use the Comprehensive Profile, which includes: Strengths; Shortcomings; General tendencies; Interaction suggestions; Performance suggestions; How to sell / present to that person; How to diffuse a confrontation; How to profile people before you interact with them.
• The five sources for making reads and the traits they are likely to reveal.
• How to avoid the seven key reasons for misreads.
• How to profile youths/adults who have been coached to project an image.
• Refined strategies for detecting lying.

Child Development Issues
Overview: Child development issues that must be considered when identifying behavioral traits and interviewing, interrogating, or investigating juveniles.
• Key stages of development and how it affects a youth’s behavioral traits.
• Consideration of development issues during interviews/interrogations.
• Consideration of development issues during confrontations.

Random Actor Violence Prevention
Overview: During the two weeks after the Littleton, Colorado incident, thousands of schools were shutdown because of terrorist threats, many of which were genuine. This day will review this issue, which has the greatest potential for harm in many communities. (To date, Korem & Associates has a virtually 100% track record in predicting which schools won’t be affected and why.)
  • Review of the four different Random Actor profiles.
  • How to preemptively engage each profile to diffuse a potential threat.
  • How to diffuse hysteria associated with a Random Actor incident.
  • Which communities and schools are unlikely to experience this threat and how to
    apply what they do in any community.

The Missing Protector Strategy, 
New Subculture Trends and Gangs
Overview This final day will focus on prevention and the Missing Protector Strategy, and new subculture trends and gangs that may give rise to new forms of juvenile crime. 
• Missing Protector Strategy—Presently, hundreds of school districts across the US, including 400 in Texas, have asked for assistance in launching the Missing Protector Strategy—the first proven, practical strategy that stops gang recruitment and many other at-risk behaviors, including: chronic drug use, suicide, teen pregnancy, and truancy. 
    • How law enforcement can be a part of this historic initiative.
    • Specific new subcultures that can affect new forms of crime
    • New gang variants, beliefs, activities, and formations.

Materials Provided 
Over $100 of materials will be provided to each participant, including:
• Suburban Gangs—The Affluent Rebels (Retail: $19.95)
• The Art of Profiling—Reading People Right the First Time (Retail: $21.95)
• Behavioral Profiling Follow-up Video — 2.25 hrs. (Retail: $39.95)
• Psychic Confession — 48 min. video (Retail $20.00) — Only confession and expose
  of a cult-like leader and his abusive childhood.

To Register for a Schedule Academy
Please print the registration information below and complete. For security purposes, please send your method of payment, completed registration form, and a letter on organization stationary from your commander verifying that you are a member of a specific law enforcement organization to: Korem & Associates, P.O. Box 1587, Richardson, TX 75083. Tel: (972) 234-2924.

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A WORD ABOUT BEHAVIORAL PROFILING
With the rise in new forms of crime, law enforcement agencies often attempt to predict who is most likely to commit a crime or who is currently engaged in criminal activity. Efforts to profile these individuals has at times been very successful. There have been some cases, however, in which people are solely identified based upon ethnicity, the car they drive, their license plate prefix, and so on. This is not behavioral profiling but stereotyping. And, some of these attempts have resulted in lawsuits. The Korem Profiling System only promotes true behavioral profiling and never stereotyping. Additionally, many "warning lists" have appeared that attempt to identify youths who might commit a random act of violence. Similarly, some of these lists may also prompt lawsuits and should only be referenced with extreme caution.

The behavioral profiling strategies used in the Korem Profiling System are sound and are regularly used by Fortune 500 professionals when hiring personnel and managing teams. Additionally, there are many well-accepted behavioral profiling instruments that are regularly used by major corporations, school districts, and law enforcement agencies when hiring personnel profile. Therefore, it is imperative that affected institutions avoid stereotyping and not confuse stereotyping with behavioral profiling.

Related to behavioral profiling and safety issues, noted legal experts warn that school districts face exposure to law suits because their staffs are not properly trained. This has resulted in many cases in which students have been inappropriately suspended or expelled—in some cases, for simply writing a scary Halloween story at the direction of a teacher. When the Korem Profiling System has been applied in school districts, the following has been the result: 1) Over 15,000 educators and law enforcement officers have received training and not one lawsuit has been filed nor complaint from a parent, care-giver, or student. 2) Threatening situations have been thwarted without violation of civil rights.