Crimescience

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 […] The post CrimeScience – The Weekly Review – Episode 39 with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, and Tom Meehan appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

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, […] The post CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: The Future of Retail – Episode 38 with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, and Tom Meehan appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

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 […] The post CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: The Future of Retail – Episode 37 with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, Tom Meehan and Featured Guest Leslie Hand (IDC Retail Insights) appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

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 post CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 36 with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, and Tom Meehan appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

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.     […] The post CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 35 with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, and Tom Meehan appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

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”, […] The post CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 34 with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, and Tom Meehan appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

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 […] The post CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 33 with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, and Tom Meehan appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

“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. The post CrimeScience Episode 62 – Rethinking Investigations and Learning from Offender Movement Featuring Dr. Kim Rossmo (Texas State University) appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

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, […] The post CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 32 with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, and Tom Meehan appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

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 […] The post CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 31 – “Election Day” with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, Tom Meehan and Featured Guest Richard Long (3SI) appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

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 for retailers. The post CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 30 with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, and Tom Meehan appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

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 […] The post CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 29 with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, Tom Meehan and Featured Guest Terrance Gainer appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

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 […] The post CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 28 – Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, and Tom Meehan appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

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. The post CrimeScience Episode 61 – Ransomware, Social Engineering, & Physical/Digital Skimming Featuring Nolen Scaife (University of Colorado, Boulder) appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

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. The post CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 27 – Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, and Tom Meehan appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

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 […] The post CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 26 – The Virtualization of Microsoft’s Security Operation – with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio,Tom Meehan and Featured Guest Brian Tuskan (Microsoft) appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

How is live-streaming driving e-commerce sales during the pandemic? Learn about this approach & much more including information on antivirals, LPRC’s STRATEGY@, the global economic forecast, sales data, contactless payment & associated scams, Portland’s facial recognition ban, and the VA data breach on our newest episode of LPRC CrimeScience: The Weekly Review, hosted by Dr. […] The post CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 25 – Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, and Tom Meehan appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

Joe Skorupa, Editorial Director for RIS News, joins us this week to provide insight into what retailers are thinking and doing during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and how the upcoming holiday season could play out in this unprecedented time, including his suggestions on how to succeed. Our co-hosts also touch on COVID-19 infection rates, LPRC […] The post CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 24 – Strategies for Retailers to Succeed This Holiday Season – Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio,Tom Meehan and Featured Guest Joseph Skorupa (RIS News) appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

In this episode of LPRC CrimeScience, Dr. Rylan Simpson, Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University, joins Dr. Read Hayes to discuss his criminological background, how people receive, process, and interpret visual information about police officers, how these visible cues set expectations, research methods, his police ride-along experience, and much more. Dr. Rylan Simpson received his […] The post CrimeScience Episode 60 – Visual Perception of Police ft. Dr. Rylan Simpson (Simon Fraser University) appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.

COVID-19 accounts for most 2020 cyberattacks. Amazon Fresh, Amazon’s grocery delivery service, opens in California. Apparel sees an increase in sales. This, & more, including information on positive COVID-19 test rates, therapies & vaccine trials, new data from Retail Dive, brand intimacy, school shopping, curbside retail, online forums & violence, and cyber-security advice in this […] The post CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 23 – Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, and Tom Meehan appeared first on Loss Prevention Research Council.