JULIA KUPPER
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JULIA KUPPER
 

Timeline

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

ATTENDED TRAINING

Law Enforcement, Threat Assessment, Forensic Linguistics

The main focus in my career has been the synergy of theoretical approaches and practical applications of language analysis in a law enforcement and threat assessment environment. I continuously educate myself about the latest trends in the fields of targeted violence, violent extremism and forensic linguistics, and acquire technical knowledge through firearms’ practice, patrol ride-alongs and other types of training with law enforcement.

2024

Firearms training

  • Rifles: AR-15 and AK-47

Patrol ride-alongs

  • Los Angeles Police Department, Pacific Division

Certifications / continuing education

  • Threat Evaluation and Reporting Overview (Department of Homeland Security, National Threat Evaluation and Reporting Program Office; 04/2024)

  • Stalking Risk Assessment and Management, SAM Version 2 (Drs. Randy Kropp & Stephen Hart; 11/2024)

Conferences, seminars and webinars

  • Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP)

    • ATAP Winter Conference (in-person; Orlando, FL)

    • ATAP Threat Management Conference (in-person, Anaheim, CA)

    • Los Angeles Chapter (in-person; Los Angeles, CA)

      • Workplace Violence Prevention Programs and SB 553 – Brian Bixler and Bryan Flannery

      • Violence Threat Risk Assessment (VTRA) Training — Kevin Cameron

    • Florida Chapter (online):

      • Understanding Murder-Suicide: Considerations for Threat Assessment — Dr. Meggen Sixbey, University of Florida, Behavioral Services Division 

    • Northern California Chapter (online):

      • Thank You For Scaring Me Straight – Special Agent Chris Desrosiers, U.S. Capitol Police and Task Force Officer at FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit

      • Digital Forensics in Threat Assessment – Peter Phurchpean, California Highway Patrol

    • South Central Chapter (online):

      • The Minds, Lives and Motivations of Mass Attackers – Dr. Peter Langman

      • Finding light in the dark: Navigating adversities in threat assessment and management — Chuck Tobin, Ken Carter, Russ Palarea, Matt Talbot, Ashlee Heavrin, Matt Spangenberg, Bruno Dias, Kelly Kraemer, Lynn Winstead

    • Pacific Southwest Chapter (online)

      • Digital Exhaust: as a method of more accurately identifying an individual’s level of interest in targeted violence, highlighting a recently developed analytical tool — FBI Special Agents Tony Nguyen and Oscar Medina

    • Great Plains Chapter (online)

      • Workplace violence connected to political grievances and threats in this upcoming election year — Rachel Solov, JD, CTM, Chief Deputy District Attorney, San Diego District, and Susan Lewis, Senior Associate General Counsel Mutual of Omaha

      • Rhetoric-Inspired Extremist Violence: what ideologies need greater attention, especially those with political or social constructs — Molly Amman, retired FBI Profiler

    • Southeast Chapter (online):

      • A Swift Approach to Stalking — David Halverson, Brian Mendelsohn, Charles Ahmad

    • New England Chapter (online):

      • The National Election, Politically Motivated Violence, and the Role of Threat Assessment Teams — Steve Crimando, Nicki Luongo, Wendy Patrick

  • Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (CATAP)

    • Annual conference (in-person; Whistler, BC)

  • Soufan Center:

    • 2024 Global Summit on Terrorism and Political Violence (in-person; New York, NY)

  • Department of Homeland Security — Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships

    • Preventing Targeted Violence in Your Community: Law Enforcement’s Role in Prevention

  • San Diego County Threat Assessment Conference (in-person; San Diego, CA)

    • Hosted by the FBI/DHS

  • Counter Extremism Project

    • (Mis)Understanding The Transnational Violent Extreme-Right Active Club Strategy

  • Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (online)

    • The Espionage Investigation of Ana Belen Montes

  • The Threat Lab, Defense Personnel and Security Research Center (online)

    • A Russian, an Insider, and an Attempted Ransomware Plot Targeting Tesla with FBI Supervisory Special Agent Sean Jolley and Special Agent Michael Hughes

    • Leadership Webinar with Mr. Don Carlos James Blasingame, National Counterintelligence and Security Center

  • Stepping In Conference (in-person; Los Angeles, CA)

    • Hosted by the LA County Department of Mental Health

      • Understanding the Hate in Hate Crimes — Dr. Peter Simi

      • Columbine, Swastikas, and the Rise of the Beta Male: Decoding the Cultural Script of Hate in Copycats and Perpetrators of Mass Violence — Dr. Nicolas Beliz

      • Hate Crimes in Southern California — Special Agent Allan Mackins, FBI

  • Global Network on Extremism and Technology — Fourth Annual Conference

  • New Zealand Police

    • Learning Bytes — The Evolution of QAnon: from Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement, Marc-Andre Argentino,

  • New Zealand Institute of Crime Science:

    • The intersection of stalking and homicide, Prof. Troy McEwan

  • Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism

    • From Fringe to Frontline: Political Journalists’ Reporting on Extremism — J.M. Berger, Anna Merlan, Mack Lamourex, Tess Owen

  • Aston University, Institute for Forensic Linguistics (online)

    • Beyond the screen: Linguistic Ideologies in Media and Their Social and Legal Consequences, Dakota Wing

    • Overlaying Aims in the Halle Terrorist Manifesto: A Pragmatic Text Analysis, Dr. Tanya Karoli Christensen

  • Interfor International — Cyber Security: Managing the Threats of Today and Tomorrow

  • CAMS-care (online)

    • Using advances in technology to advance the understanding, prediction, and prevention of suicide, Dr. Matthew Nock, Professor at Harvard

 
 

2023

Certifications / continuing education

  • Assessment and Management of Workplace & Campus Violence Risk (WAVR-21), developed by Drs. Stephen White and Reid Meloy (in-person; San Diego, CA)

Firearms training

  • 9mm pistols: Smith & Wesson, Beretta and Tokarev

Conferences, seminars and webinars

  • Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP)

    • Threat Management Conference (in-person; Anaheim, CA)

  • Association of European Threat Assessment Professionals (AETAP)

    • Annual conference (in-person; Nürnberg, Germany)

  • Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (CATAP)

    • Annual conference (in-person; Whistler, Canada)

  • Canadian Symposium to Prevent Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism

    • Annual conference (in-person; Vancouver, Canada)

  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (TARGET)

    • Annual Threat Assessment Seminar (in-person; Los Angeles, CA)

  • United States Secret Service, National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC)

    • Threat Assessment & Management Conference (in-person; Los Angeles, CA)

    • Mass attacks in public spaces: 2016 — 2020 (online)

  • Department of Homeland Security, National Threat Evaluation and Reporting

    • The contagion effect: to what extent do labels and languages drive violence, Melissa Hamilton, Chuck Tobin & Russell Palarea (online)

  • Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

    • Annual conference (online)

  • Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)

    • Global summit (online)

  • Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP)

    • Pacific Southwest Chapter: AI in Threat Assessments, Wendy Patrick (online)

    • Florida Chapter: Red flag laws, Sgt. Bruce Vail — Orange County Sheriff’s Office (online)

    • Los Angeles Chapter: Safety is personal - lessons learned from the Virginia Tech tragedy, Kristina Anderson Froling (Koshka Foundation for Safe Schools) and Tony Haga (Deputy Chief of Police and Assistant Director of Security, Virginia Tech University); (online)

  • Aston University, Institute for Forensic Linguistics (online):

    • The use of regional dialect markers for authorship profiling, Dana Roemling (University of Birmingham)

    • Towards a linguistic theory of trust — insights from a discourse analysis and experimental pragmatics, Matteo Fuoli (University of Birmingham)

    • Cross-platform authorship analysis — challenges and opportunities, Dr. Karoline Marko (Graz University)

  • ASIS International, Dr. Matthew Schumacher

    • The contemporary operational intelligence mindset confirmation (online)

 
 

2022

Certifications / continuing education

Conferences, seminars and webinars

  • Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (CATAP)

    • Annual conference (in-person; Whistler, Canada)

  • Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP)

    • Los Angeles Chapter (in-person; Los Angeles, CA)

      • Assigning Responsibility through the threat assessment circle, Judge Andrew Cooper and LASD Sergeant Mourad Kabanjian

      • "Once upon a time in Hollywood”, case study of a high profile stalking case, Los Angeles Police Department

      • Does averting a school attack ensure that the threat of violence is eliminated? Sammie Wicks

      • Diversity of thought in behavioral analysis, Disney Threat Assessment Team

      • Is that a threat? Distinguishing danger from drama, Wendy Patrick

      • The FBI’s state of the union, FBI — Los Angeles Field Office

    • 2022 Fall Virtual Threat Assessment Conference (online)

      • The threat landscape of militant accelerationism, Matthew Kriner

      • The proximal warning behavior typology after a decade: what have we learned? Dr. Reid Meloy

      • Threat management lessons from across the globe: targeted violence in Europe and Asia, Totti Karpela

  • The Threat Lab (online):

    • Leadership Series Webinar: Dr. Karie Gibson, Special Agent with the FBI, Unit Chief for FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit-1, Behavioral Threat Assessment Center

  • Aston University, Institute for Forensic Linguistics (online):

    • Hate crime in football, PC Stuart Ward (West Midlands Police)

    • In the aftermath of Hillsborough: serial storytelling or collusion? Dr. Patricia Canning Pask (Utrecht University)

    • Dr. Elisabeth Carter (University of Roehampton)

  • Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics (online):

    • Opportunity Makes the Thief: Forensic Linguistics in the Fight against Cybercrime, Dr. Rui Sousa-Silva (University of Porto)

 
 

2021

Certifications / continuing education

  • Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol-18 (TRAP-18), developed by Dr. Reid Meloy

  • Violent Extremism 2021: A Threat Assessment Update (Specialized Training Services)

    • Presenters: Drs. Reid Meloy, Philip Saragoza, Stephen White and and Molly Amman

Patrol ride-alongs

  • Los Angeles Police Department, Hollywood Division

Conferences, seminars and webinars

  • The Violence Project (Drs. James Densley and Jillian Peterson):

    • Preventing Targeted Violence: Data-Driven Strategies in a Post COVID World (online)

  • 1st Annual Threat Assessment and Extremism Summit 2021:

    • Far-right Extremism (online)

  • United States Secret Service, National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC):

    • Averting Targeted School Violence: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Plots Against Schools (online)

  • Anti-Defamation League (online):

    • Understanding and Combating Hate Crimes

    • Antisemitic Incidents and White Supremacist Propaganda on the Rise: Taking a Closer Look

    • The Militia Movement: An Extremist Movement at a Crossroad

    • Murder & Extremism in the US: Trends and Analysis Confirmation

    • From Insurrection to Inauguration: Understanding America’s Extremist Landscape, Emerging Threats and Steps Forward Confirmation

  • Soufan Center:

    • A Perfect Storm: White Supremacists, Conspiracy Theories and Violent Extremism (online)

  • Aston University, Institute for Forensic Linguistics (online):

    • Examining the use and disguise of persuasion, threat and isolation in romance fraud, Dr. Elisabeth Carter (University of Roehampton)

    • International approaches to forensic linguistic casework, several speakers

    • Using grammar as a shield in threatening, hateful online communications, Dr. Tanya Karoli-Christensen (University of Copenhagen)

  • Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics (online):

    • Analyzing linguistic text evidence with the likelihood ratio framework, Dr. Shunichi Ishihara (Australian National University)

  • Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security:

    • Insider risk, human resources, and the human capital supply chain challenge (online)

  • Lexipol:

    • Training “Artifacts”: The Role Training—or Lack of Training—Plays in Poor Police Decisions (online)

  • Ontic Technologies:

    • Threat Hunting: How to Create Intelligence from Anomalies and Patterns (online)

  • University of Southern California:

    • A Woman's Place - US Counterterrorism Since 9/11 (online)

  • University of Chicago, Institute of Politics:

    • Combating Domestic Extremism (online)

 
 

2020

Certifications / continuing education

  • Threat Assessment Update 2020 – Extremism and Lone Actor Terrorism (Specialized Training Services)

    • Presenters: Drs. Reid Meloy, Philip Saragoza and Stephen White

Conferences, seminars and webinars

  • Aston University, Institute for Forensic Linguistics (online):

    • Forensic Linguistics and New Urban Varieties

    • Annual Symposium – Diverse Methods and Topics in Forensic Linguistics

  • Anti-Defamation League (online):

    • Extremism and the Election

    • At The Extremes: The 2020 Election and American Extremism

  • Dr. Tammy Gales, Hofstra University:

    • Ideologies of Violence - Threatening Language Ideologies vs. Threatening Language Realities (online)

  • Dr. David Matsumoto:

    • Introduction to Threat Assessment and Nonverbal Behavior Webinar (online)

  • Counter-Extremism Project (online):

    • The Nordic Resistance Movement’s Activities, Strategies and Tactics

    • The Logistics Of Foreign Terrorist Fighters From Three Ideological Backgrounds

  • United States Secret Service, National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC):

    • Mass Attacks in Public Spaces – 2019 (online)

  • The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (online):

    • Virtual Symposium on Changing Threats

    • Global Terrorism Database, 2020 Update

  • Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals:

    • Behavioral Threat Assessment & Management, Dr. Gene Deisinger (online)

 
 

2019

Certifications / continuing education

Seminars and lectures

  • Joint Regional Intelligence Center:

    • Terrorism Liaison Officer, basic course (in-person; Los Angeles, CA)

  • Joint Regional Intelligence Center and Los Angeles Department of Mental Health:

    • Targeted Violence Prevention (in-person; Los Angeles, CA)

  • Peace Officers’ Association of Los Angeles County:

    • Active Shooter & Mass Casualty Events: Prevention, Response, Investigation (in-person; Los Angeles, CA)

 
 

2018

Patrol ride-alongs

  • Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department:

    • Aero Bureau (helicopter)

    • West Hollywood Station

    • Compton Station

  • Manhattan Beach Police Department

  • Downey Police Department

Tours

  • Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner

  • Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department:

    • Scientific Services Bureau (Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center tour)

    • Tactical and Survival Unit (high-risk search warrant training)

    • Canine Unit (training with multiple K-9 dogs)

    • West Hollywood Station (crime analyst tour)

    • Homicide Bureau (crime analyst tour)

    • Men’s Central Jail (jail tour)

Seminars and lectures

  • Peace Officers’ Association of Los Angeles County (in-person; Los Angeles, CA):

    • Counter-Terrorism Symposium

    • Search & Seizure Search Warrants and Conducting Interviews & Interrogations

  • Los Angeles Peace Officers’ Intelligence Group (in-person; Los Angeles, CA):

    • 2015 Debrief of San Bernardino Terrorist Attack

    • Jail Radicalization in California State Prisons

    • Drug Cartels – Trends Affecting the US