what is predictive policing

Predictive Policing and Applied Behavior Analysis

January 22, 2015 bsci21 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org According to CBS News in San Francisco, police are cracking down on bike theft in the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system with predictive policing. BART […]

Lifestyle

Control Yourself! Using Your Audience to Make Your Presentations More Powerful and Engaging

October 3, 2015 6

By Scott Herbst, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer Anyone who regularly spends time at the front of the room is well aware of the effects that the environment can have on one’s behavior. If the audience […]

Society

Predictive Policing: Mapping Future Crime with PredPol

February 20, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org According to Forbes, police departments across America are paying up to $150,000 a year to PredPol, a predictive policing firm, to use its mapping technology to […]

Lifestyle

The Speaker Doesn’t Matter: What Research in Verbal Behavior Can Tell Us About Effective Communication

April 21, 2015 0

By Scott Herbst, PhD (scottaherbst@yahoo.com) bSci21 Contributing Writer In 1982, Charlie Catania, Byron Matthews, and Eliot Shimoff published a study looking at the effects of shaping verbal behavior. What they did was set up a multiple schedule. If […]

ABA Practice

Scaling an ABA Agency with CentralReach: An Interview with Dr. Barbara Endlich of BAE

August 23, 2017 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D President, bSci21Media, LLC Dr. Barbara Endlich is Executive Director of Behavior And Education (BAE), has been working in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) since 1999 where she worked as a […]

ABA Practice

On The Phrase “Having a Behavior”

October 14, 2015 11

By Clelia Sigaud, M.S. bSci21 Contributing Writer I have a question for myself and other professionals who use Applied Behavior Analysis in their work. When did it become okay to use the term “behavior” only […]

Lifestyle

Tips for Transitioning Activities, from your Behavior BFF

August 29, 2015 0

By Leanne Page, M.Ed, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer and your “Behavior BFF” A mom writes: I enjoy taking my 4-year-old son to the park, play areas at the mall, and other fun places. Lately, though, he […]