Analyst Talk JAM – Jason & Mindy – The Analyst as a Client

Episode: 00335 Released on September 7, 2026 Description: Welcome to the first episode of JAM: Jason and Mindy on Analyst Talk! After years of talking about doing a show together, Jason Elder and Mindy Yoon finally make it happen. In this quarterly series, Jason and Mindy discuss what’s on their minds in law enforcement analysis: what’s their jam, what’s not their jam, and whatever else comes up along the way.

In this inaugural episode, Jason argues that analysts may be neglecting one of their most important clients: themselves. Jason and Mindy discuss using automation, dashboards, repeatable processes, and proactive analysis to make analysts more efficient and better prepared to serve everyone else.

Then the conversation moves to farmers markets, crime prevention, situational awareness, and whether problem-oriented policing (POP) has lost some of its prominence even though many of its principles remain embedded in modern policing and crime analysis.

Finally, things get a little less serious as Jason and Mindy discuss their personal “jams,” ’90s music, Pokémon, Titanic, Pulp Fiction, and Mindy’s theory that Titanic might actually be a time-travel movie.

It’s law enforcement analysis, professional discussion, random rabbit holes, and plenty of jam. 🎧 Listen, share, and keep talking! [Note:  Description produced by ChatGPT.]

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00:00:50 - Introducing JAM
00:04:44 - The analyst as their own client
00:15:18 - Farmers markets, jam, and the analyst brain that never turns off
00:27:18 - Is problem-oriented policing losing its popularity?
00:36:13 - What was your jam? Music and the ’90s
00:48:51 - Next JAM: Flock cameras and ATAC
00:49:48 - The difficult art of ending a conversation