JULIA KUPPER
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JULIA KUPPER
 

Timeline

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

Attended Training

Law Enforcement, Threat Assessment & Forensic Linguistics

I stay current with evolving threat trends through continuous professional training and hands-on exposure to law enforcement operations, including firearms training and patrol ride-alongs. The field-relevant training informs my applied analysis and ensures that my work aligns with operational and tactical realities.

2025

Firearms training

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

  • .38 cal revolver

Conferences, seminars and webinars

  • Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP)

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

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

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

      • Threat Symposium — panel discussions and presentations

      • Prevention of Terrorism: The Dutch Approach — Bart Collard and Franklin Renfrum

      • Kill the Disc Jockey: A Case Study — Brian Bixler and Eric Tonsfeldt

    • North West Chapter (online)

      • Artificial Intelligence:  A New Frontier for Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management

        • Practical uses of AI in Corporate Threat Management, Protective Intelligence, and Its Utilization by Persons of Concern — Kyle Lindseth, Senior Investigator; Natalie Kaptur, Senior Investigator, and Emily Andersen, Executive Threat Intelligence Program Manager, Microsoft Global Security.

        • Integrating AI into Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management Today — Jameson Ritter, CPPS

        • Digital Exposure in the AI Era: How Correlation and Connectivity Reshape Risk — Chris Wingfield, 360 Privacy

    • Pacific Southwest Chapter (online)

      • April 2019 Chabad of Poway Attack — Deputy District Attorney David Grapilon, San Diego County District Attorney's Office

    • Great Plains Chapter (online)

      • The Sovereign Citizen Movement — Roman Asaro, Crime Analyst with the Nebraska Information Analysis Center (NIAC)

  • Association of European Threat Assessment Professionals

    • Annual Conference (in-person; Lugano, Switzerland)

  • Missouri School Board Association / Federal Bureau of Investigation

    • Threat Summit (in-person; Columbia, MS)

  • Jewish Federation Los Angeles, Community Security Initiative

    • Major City Security Summit

    • Annual Safety and Security Summit

  • Behavioral Analysis Webinar

    • The Psychology of Organized Crime — Peter Collins

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