I have minor updates for several activities.

First, the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing is accepting submissions for its conference in spring 2027 at UPenn:

If you are a vendor interested in promoting some of your work at the conference, also feel free to get in touch. I serve on the committee that works with vendors and the committee that reviews proposals.

Second, I have updated several of the pages for Crim Consortium (roughly the nonprofit behind CrimRXiv).

For individuals, you should consider becoming a member to support the work Scott (and to a lesser extent myself) is doing on this. (We do not make money to be clear, just keeping the lights on.)

If you are a program head for a department (or involved in some other organization), you should consider becoming an institutional member. You get your own prioritized page (which is worth it just for the SEO for your group).

CrimRXiv has over a million pageviews per month at the moment. It is easily the best preprint server to post your work to for anything related to criminology at all. It is also the only preprint server that lets you upload your work in HTML format (you can upload a Markdown or LaTeX file as well and it turns the paper into HTML). So you can have embedded interactive graphics if you want, for example.

Third, VerusCite has a blog with the most recent post about How VerusCite Handles Privacy. For individuals running journals, I only submit the references to the LLMs, unlike other editors. Those LLMs are zero-data-retention, and I also do not see what you upload.

Journals should really be investing in my tool. Most journals would only take a few hundred per year at $2 per paper.

This is a major problem across science as a whole at the moment. The Hall of Hallucinations is up to 27 papers as of this writing, and I tend to add at least one a day.

Fourth, I have contributed a course to the new National Association of Crime Analysts called Basics of Python Programming for Crime Analysts.

This asynchronous course consists of bite-sized labs to go with my book, Data Science for Crime Analysis with Python. If you would like in-person training, get in touch, but this is much more economical for those interested in pursuing training on their own.