The Early Stages of AI and BWC: Opportunities and Challenges

On July 1, 2022, Rex R. Ingram was appointed as the 36th Chief of the Caldwell Police Department.
Chief Ingram comes to the City of Caldwell from the Los Angeles Police Department where he proudly served his community for nearly 17 years. Most recently, Chief Ingram served as a Lieutenant Watch Commander where he proudly worked in several different areas of Los Angeles, including the San Fernando Valley, Koreatown, and Hollywood. As a supervisor during his time with the LAPD, he held various operational, administrative, training, and command positions, including patrol sergeant, parole compliance unit OIC, Vice unit OIC, Bureau training coordinator, assistant watch commander, and human trafficking task force commander. Chief Ingram is passionate about active community collaboration and has been appointed to serve on several notable executive boards. He is an active member of Idaho Chiefs' of Police Association (ICOPA), where he serves as the 2023/2024 Vice President and will be the 2024/2025 President of the Association. Chief Ingram was also selected by the Office of Highway Safety (OHS) and appointed to as a Traffic Safety Commissioner on the Idaho Traffic Safety Commission for the Great State of Idaho. Additionally, Chief Ingram proudly serves on the Boys and Girls Club of Canyon County Executive Board, the Idaho Youth Ranch Board Advancement Committee, the Saint Alphonsus Foundation Board, and the West Valley Medical Center Executive Board of Trustees, the City-County Narcotics Unit (CCNU) Executive Board of Directors, on the Treasure Valley Metro Violent Crime Taskforce Executive Board of Directors, and the Canyon County 911 Executive Board of Directors. Chief Ingram is a member of many professional organizations and associations, including the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), the Police Executive Research Forum, the Latin American Law Enforcement Association (LALEY), the Western States Sheriff's Association (WSSA) and ICOPA.

Dr. Jeff Rojek is currently a tenured associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 research articles and reports covering topics that include police officer decision-making and performance, use of force, traffic stops, officer involved vehicle collisions, tactical units, officer misconduct review, public perceptions of the police, police involvement in research, and police-researcher relationships. His articles appear in the leading criminology and criminal justice journals including Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Policing, and Police Quarterly. He is also the senior author on Developing and Maintaining Police-Researcher Partnerships to Facilitate Research Use: A Comparative Analysis (New York, NY; Springer, 2015). He has received $10 million in research funding from federal, state and local agencies a principal or co-principal investigator to examine topics that include police practitioner-researcher partnerships, intelligence led-policing, violent crime, law enforcement response to disasters, officer-involved traffic collisions, officer safety, body worn cameras, and officer decision-making. Prior to his academic career, Dr .Rojek was an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.