Better Thinking leads to Better Decisions leads to Better Public Service

Course Overview

How do we think?  How do we make decisions?  are two important questions for law enforcement personnel and analysts.  The process by which LE professionals make decisions can impact and affect scores of lives, both internal to our departments and the public at large.  In a concise two-day course, personnel are active in discussing and applying the concepts by which we make our decisions.  Case studies and small groups activities transform a potentially “dry subject”, into what many LE professional indicate was “one of the most important courses of their careers”. 

DAY 1

• Define Critical Thinking
  • Relevance to LE/Analysis
• Common Intellectual Principles
• Critically Reading/Writing
• Claims/Arguments
  • Analyze
  • Construct
  • Fallacies
  • Hypotheses
• Thinking
  • How do we think?
  • Bias
  • Asking the right questions
• Where do we get our information (Data)?
• Sources
  • Primary/Secondary
• How to distinguish “good data”

DAY 2

• Allowing the data/evidence to lead
  • 5W’s & How
  • Inferences / theories
  • What is evidence?
• Problem Identification
  • Research questions
• Decision Making
• Systems/Processes/Procedures
  • Problems
  • Recognition vs. solve
• Impact of Technology
• Creating Intelligence Products using Critical Thinking
• Speaking Truth to Power
  • Informing decision makers
  • Dispelling misconceptions/conventional wisdom
  • Maintaining professional integrity

Nicole McKendree

Nicole McKendree began her career in law enforcement in 2016 as a Patrol Officer. Mrs. McKendree pursued a higher degree focused in analytics and criminology and started the very first Crime Analyst program at the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office in Arkansas. After building the program for nearly 2 years, Mrs. McKendree moved on to the Arkansas State Fusion Center as a Senior Intelligence Analyst where she was tasked with a myriad of duties all in assistance to local, state, federal, and tribal/territorial law enforcement. After a military move to Georgia, Mrs. McKendree obtained a Criminal Intelligence Analyst position with the Macon-Bibb County Sheriff's Office. 

Mrs. McKendree currently assists Georgia law enforcement agencies in criminal cases ranging from theft to homicide. She provides expertise in use of resources such as facial recognition, financial record analysis, property records, and more. Mrs. McKendree has specialized in Domestic Violent Extremism during her time at the fusion center, writing an intelligence product in collaboration with DHS that gained her recognition from the United States Secretary of Homeland Security. She was awarded the Southern Shield 2022 Fusion Center Analysis Award in October 2022 and holds several certifications in programs such as i2 Analyst Notebook, Crime Analysis, and Counterintelligence/Counterterrorism. She is avid in furthering professional advancement of her peers through teaching analysis courses and directed advice on law enforcement resources and training.

Mrs. McKendree lives in Georgia with her husband, son, and senior German Shepherd Dog.

Host: POLICE TECHNICAL

Location: Online Seminar 647 Ohio Street Online Seminar, 47807 Get Directions

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