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

Mark Bilski

Mark Bilski is a Detective with the Dearborn Police Department in Michigan. A 12-year law enforcement officer, he began his career working the patrol division as a road Officer/Evidence Technician before advancing to the Dearborn Tactical Unit which is a patrol supplement operating in uniformed/directed capacity as well as in plain clothes capacity. Mr. Bilski is also assigned to the Dearborn Bomb Squad, often working in conjunction with the FBI, Michigan State Police, Detroit Police Department and ATF Bomb Technicians to handle suspicious packages and unexploded ordinances throughout southeast Michigan. After 7 years on the road, Mr. Bilski was assigned to the Detective Bureau where he has investigated a range of cases including Homicides, Sex Crimes, Property Crimes, Robberies and Fraud and has authored hundreds of search warrants. He is also a Certified Fire Investigator and acts as the department’s sole Fire/Arson Investigator.

Host: POLICE TECHNICAL

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