Lorie Velarde
5 Courses • 65 StudentsBiography
Lorie Velarde has 37 years of law enforcement experience, including 25 years of crime analysis experience and ten years of dispatch experience. Her assignments include Geographic Information Systems Analyst and Crime Analyst positions with the Irvine Police Department and Garden Grove Police Department Crime Analysis Units. Lorie has been teaching courses for 20 years, and she also consults for federal, county, and city agencies.
Lorie has been tasked with creating and maintaining agency mapping workflows, identifying patterns in crime, call for service, and other large datasets, and performing workload analyses. She has completed complex analyses, automated workflows, and programmed in Python and SQL. She is an expert in crime analysis, crime mapping and geographic profiling, and she provides technical assistance and training to crime analysis units throughout the United States.
She has published book chapters and news articles on the topics of crime analysis, crime mapping, and crime analysis best practices, and she was featured in HLN’s original feature ‘Unmasking a Killer’. She was also recognized by Director Christopher Wray of the FBI for providing investigative assistance that identified the location of a murdered victim's remains in a homicide case.
Lorie holds a Master of Science degree in Criminology from Indiana State University; a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Ecology and a California State Teaching Credential from the University of California, Irvine; and a California Department of Justice Certification in Crime and Intelligence Analysis.
