Digital Threat Assessment® (DTA) teaches participants to establish a Digital Behavioral Baseline through a Safety / Threat Assessment lens. By engaging with popular social media applications, you will learn how to find and document worrisome digital media content originating from your community. This training solidifies your understanding of how to effectively use DTA® as a critical part of any modern-day threat assessment.

This training will include:

• Applying the principles of behavioral threat assessment to DTA®
• Identifying the digital behavioral baseline of individuals on the pathway to violence
• Assessing the language of online threat-related behavior
• Searching within commonly used platforms such as, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat
• Utilizing boolean operators, people search engines, and access cached data
• Validating the source of images and video
• Best practice for online navigation and ensuring privacy safeguards
• Using law enforcement guides to request user identifying information (preservation and production orders)
• How to crowdsource localized and time relevant social media posts from your organization and area
• The latest updates to stories, reels, hashtags, and IGTV
• Identifying concerning trends and create awareness to ensure safety and mental wellbeing
• How to gather public social media data with geolocation relevance—what are the most effective ways to identify potential witnesses in a public act of violence?
• Using social media to find a missing person
• How to document your digital findings