Former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg consistently credited his administration’s controversial stop-and-frisk program as essential to cutting crime, but declines in felonies both before and after his expansion of the program indicate no consistent correlation between the two. A Washington Post analysis of crime patterns and other academic research found that major felonies declined during Bloomberg’s three…
Annual Report 2019
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Annual Report 19: Working With Minority Serving Institutions
CINA MSI Summer Week By: John Hollis Dan Vandiver said the week he recently spent at George Mason University has given him a much better understanding of the many opportunities available to him in the fields of computer science, criminal investigations, and digital forensic science. A rising senior from California State University – San Marcos,…
Annual Report 2019: CINA Sponsored Events
Illicit Supply Networks On March 25 and 26, CINA co-organized an NSF-led conference on “Disrupting Operations of Illicit Supply Networks.” Academic and private sector experts in this field connected with representatives from relevant federal agencies including DHS, DOD, DOJ, USAID, and the U.S. Department of State, to discuss various forms of illicit activities including: trafficking…
Annual Report 2019: Introducing the Multimedia Archive
In 2019, CINA launched its Distinguished Speaker Series of expert overviews of CINA mission topics followed by audience Q&A. Inaugural talks covered such crucial challenges as illicit trade, tracking cash flows, threat financing, narcotics, interviewing techniques, and the role of cryptocurrencies in protecting the anonymity of criminals. Featured experts included Channing Mavrellis, a transnational crime…
CINA Science Manager, Stu Mackenzie, Talks About Student Grand Challenge on Podcast
The Department of Homeland Security pursues tech and innovation in a number of ways. One of the most inspiring is their Centers of Excellence Student Grand Challenge. The DHS-sponsored hackathon challenges students to come up with novel methods of answering difficult security questions. This year, they focused on how to better protect ourselves from drones.…
Annual Report: Introducing the CINA Multimedia Archive
In 2019, CINA launched its Distinguished Speaker Series of expert overviews of CINA mission topics followed by audience Q&A. Inaugural talks covered such crucial challenges as illicit trade, tracking cash flows, threat financing, narcotics, interviewing techniques, and the role of cryptocurrencies in protecting the anonymity of criminals. Featured experts included Channing Mavrellis, a transnational crime…
Press Release: CINA Announces New Director, Jim Jones
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January 10, 2020 Contact: Tracy Mason CINA Communications (703)-993-8723 tmason11@gmu.edu Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis (CINA) Center of Excellence Appoints Jim Jones as New Director Washington, D.C. – George Mason University appointed Jim Jones as the new Director of the Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis (CINA) Center, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS)…
Annual Report: COE Summit 2019 Student Grand Challenge
As part of the 2019 DHS Centers of Excellence Summit, 30 students from across the COE network participated in a student Grand Challenge to develop groundbreaking, interdisciplinary counterunmanned aerial systems (UAS) strategies for the Homeland Security Enterprise. Thanks to generous support by General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), students from eight Centers of Excellence and their…
Annual Report: CINA Outlook 2020
These illicit activities form a massive global economy sector. While it remains hard to assess their full scope, transnational networked criminal activities are widely estimated to account for up to 5% of the world’s $80 trillion economy. These estimates put this illicit economy on par with, or even ahead of, the economies of most wealthy…