Additional Resources

IACA is not affiliated and does not endorse any of the listed resources. Any information or products offered should be verified by the user. Resources are listed in alphabetical order.

Public Records

• Federal Bureau of Prisons - inmate locator search tool for Federal inmates incarcerated from 1982 to the present
• Florida Department of Corrections - searchable offender database; can be useful to find "fillers" for police photo arrays
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) - detainee locator service
• National Motor Vehicle Title Information System - resource for vehicle title fraud
• Selective Service - registration verification tool
• Social Security Death Index -  US 1935-2014
• Social Security Verification - non-government site for data issued before June 25, 2011
• Social Security Number Allocation - historical 
• Social Security Number Randomization- since June 2011
• Tax assessor databases - non-government site links to multiple tax assessor databases

Online Crime Mapping Services

• City Protect  (Motorola Solutions)
  
• Community Crime Map (LexisNexis Risk Solutions)
• CrimeMapping.com (Central Square Technologies)
• SpotCrime

Free Software

Geospatial

• GRASS GIS
• Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
• QGIS

Image/Video

• Avidemux
• Audacity
  
• Gimp
  
• Lightworks
  
• Microsoft Paint 
• Microsoft Store
  
• VLC Media Player

Programming

• Crime by the Numbers - a criminologist’s guide to R
• R Project - statistical computing and graphics
• RStudio IDE - integrated development environment for R and Python 

Office Suites

• Google Drive
• LibreOffice
• Microsoft OneDrive
• Mozilla’s Thunderbird
• Open Office 

Other

• CrimeStat - spatial statistics program for analysis of crime incident locations
• Gephi - graph and network visualizations
• Open Source as Alternative (OSALT) 
• The National Institute of Justice Funded Tools, Apps and Databases 

Free Online Training

• Code Academy 
• Coursera 
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Critical Infrastructure Training 
• EDX - free and paid courses
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Independent Study Program 
• Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC)  
  
• Khan Academy 
• Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training - counterdrug and counter transnational crime training
  
• Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium 
• Udacity - free and paid courses
• Udemy - free and paid courses