LPRC

On this week’s episode, John Voytilla, global loss prevention and subject matter expert in developing scalable and actionable strategies, joins our co-hosts to talk about the LPRC STRATEGY@ program, the importance of collaboration in the retail industry, acute vs. chronic LP issues, erosion of consequences, and much more. John Voytilla has a verified approach to risk identification […]

Dr. David Weisburd, Distinguished Professor at George Mason University and Executive Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, joins Dr. Read Hayes on LPRC CrimeScience to discuss science in evidence-based policing, the value and challenges of real-world research, place and crime event clustering, and much more. This is part one of two of the […]

145,000 COVID-19 scam websites taken down. Retail’s not dead: it’s one of the fastest-changing industries. In this week’s episode, our co-hosts discuss these topics and more, including COVID-19 strains, Clubhouse app scams, Reddit stocks, and retail trends and predictions in 2021.

In this week’s episode, our co-hosts delve into the types of curbside pickup shoppers, the future of malls, 2021 store experience projections, the most important retail technologies in 2021, fake COVID-19 vaccination cards, and much more.

Dr. John Eck, Professor at the University of Cincinnati, joins Dr. Read Hayes on the second and final part of their discussion to give his perspective on Opportunity Structure Signatures, Examining Crime Prevention Mechanisms, Weak Intervention Backfire Concerns, and much more.

523 retail fatalities in 2020. 19% of total retail sales took place online. Our co-hosts discuss the D&D Retail Violent Fatalities report, global consumer trends, vaccine misinformation, upcoming LPRC initiatives, zero-day flaws, Ohio’s unemployment office data breach, and much more in this week’s episode.

Dr. John Eck, Professor at the University of Cincinnati, joins Dr. Read Hayes to give his perspective on Bounded Offender Rationality and Situational Choices, how and why crime is concentrated at specific places, place management, and much more in part one of our two-part discussion.

Tune in for this week’s quick update – our co-hosts discuss pool testing, Operation Warp Speed, Deloitte’s retail industry outlook, tech companies need to evolve, subscription services in retail, fake vaccine scams, global data breaches, and much more.

On this week’s episode, our co-hosts discuss LPRC updates, false-flag operations, the COVID-19 vaccine black market, violent civil unrest, the Capitol, paid agitators, 2021 technology trends & predictions, and much more.

Vaccination “waitlist” scams are emerging. Black Friday foot traffic down more than 52%. On this week’s episode, our co-hosts discuss these topics and much more, including COVID-19 vaccine developments, updates on the Russian state-sponsored hack, the number of security cameras deployed around the world, the increase in e-commerce sales & returns, and consumer trends of […]

25-30 million Christmas trees are sold each year in the U.S. Retail sales increased by 9% last month. 35% of consumers shopped more this November versus last November. On this week’s episode, our co-hosts discuss these facts and much more, including the recent Russian state-sponsored hack, Interpol’s “Orange Notice”, COVID-19 vaccines logistics and IT challenges, […]

By 2023, 80% of retailers will offer contactless payments and app-based scan-and-go pay systems in store, increasing conversion rates by 40% and customer retention rates by 30%. 75% of grocery ecommerce orders will be picked up at curbside or in-store. On this week’s episode, our special guest Leslie Hand, Group Vice President for IDC Retail […]

Consumers are expected to spend, on average, $1,387 per household this holiday season – down 7% from 2019. Spending is expected to shift to non-gift purchases – up 12% from last year. On this week’s episode, our co-hosts discuss this and more, including COVID-19 updates, D&D Daily’s retail robbery & ORC data for Q3, the […]

The increase in online shopping for Black Friday and Cyber Monday comes with an influx of COVID-19 related scams. On this week’s episode, our co-hosts discuss this and more, including COVID-19 vaccinations, smart devices and IoT, efforts to protect curbside pickups, retail projections for 2021, fake raffles from live streams, and extended shipping scams.     […]

Happy Thanksgiving! Did you know we cook 46 million turkeys each year? The most popular password option of 2020 was “123456”, which can be cracked in under a second. Our co-hosts discuss these facts and more on this week’s episode, including COVID-19 immunity, vaccine security and logistics, D&D Daily violent crime data, “drink and shop”, […]

Last week 74.1 billion dollars were generated from the 2020 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, rebranded from Single’s Day in China. Nike sees 15 million dollars in sales in minutes. COVID-19 vaccines in phase three trials. On this week’s episode, our co-hosts discuss these topics and more, including how Walmart continues to evolve overseas, CBS’s touch-free […]

“Offenders go where they know and know where they go.” Dr. Kim Rossmo, Research Professor at Texas State University, joins Dr. Read Hayes to discuss crime patterns, the geography of crime and policing, opportunistic versus intentional offenders, serial offenders, static and mobile targets, improving investigative thinking, connecting investigations to problem-solving, and much more.

Singles’ Day in China was created by college students in spite of Valentine’s day to buy gifts for themselves. Now the largest shopping day in the world, learn how U.S. retailers are trying to adopt this atypical holiday, and how it can increase online fraud. On this week’s episode, our co-hosts discuss this and more, […]

On this week’s special episode, we welcome Richard Long, 3SI Senior Vice President & Director of Global Law Enforcement, to discuss Election Day and much more with our co-hosts – including law enforcement planning leading up to the results, community policing, LPRC’s virtual SOC, election misinformation, the global retail data, and emerging technologies. Richard Long […]

China retail sales up 3.3%. 52% of consumers have not been to a mall or department store since the pandemic started.  On this week’s episode, our co-hosts discuss these topics and more, including election results preparation, state-sponsored cyberattacks, Twitter’s misinformation warnings, Antifa, violent crime trends, retail’s holiday season data, and increased shipping costs fo...

Special guest Terrance Gainer, founder of Terrance W. Gainer, LLC, joins the CrimeScience podcast to talk about the election outcome response, the substantial increase in murders and non-fatal shootings, data reporting, and police departments adaptations to increase public engagement & safety. Our co-hosts also discuss the pandemic, social media censoring algorithms, consumer perception of the new...

Dual flu & COVID-19 vaccine to start trials in Hong Kong. By 2021, there will be an estimated 1 billion CCTV cameras. In this episode, Dr. Read Hayes, Tom Meehan, and Tony D’Onofrio discuss these topics and more, including IMPACT 2020, edge computing, live-streaming shopping in the U.S., Proud Boys, and Internet of Things security […]

Nolen Scaife, Assistant Professor of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Colorado, Boulder, rejoins our podcast to discuss ransomware detectors, when organizations pay the ransom, social engineering, malware countermeasures, password management, and much more with our host, Dr. Read Hayes.

Over 40 COVID-19 vaccines in human trials.  20.5% of retailers surveyed will sit out of the markdown cycle. In this episode, our co-hosts delve into these topics and much more, including ransomware, 911 outages, eCommerce seasonal workforce, the correlation between incarceration & earnings, and customer perception of retail stores.

Brian Tuskan, Sr. Director, Chief Security Officer for Microsoft, joins us this week to discuss how the virtualization of Microsoft’s Security Operations has benefited his team and Microsoft during this pandemic, and the inspiration behind Cop to Corporate.  Our co-hosts also delve into civil unrest preparations, changes in payment trends, Amazon’s micro-fulfillment centers, Walmart’s trial […]