Brad is an analyst with the Kansas City office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He currently focuses on white collar crimes such as medical fraud and ponzi schemes but has also worked on gang violence, terrorism, and child exploitation cases. Brad and the other analysts start each case by using databases and any online sites to pull all relevant information on a suspect such as all known addresses and acquaintances. After handing off to field agents, Brad either joins the team in the field for further analysis or moves on to his next case.
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>> My name's Brad Green, graduated this past semester from Excelsior with my master's in criminal justice. I currently work for the FBI out in Kansas City. I'm an analyst so I work anything from terrorism to financial crimes to child exploitation. Currently right now I work white collar crimes. So yeah I've done-- done almost everything in there. White collar, I would usually start out with finding out where the individual lives, the friends, associates, vehicles, houses, and I use different databases that we have access to. And then from there I'll start to go to social media, find out hobbies, locations that this individual frequents. I pass that on to our surveillance team so they can start gathering intel that way. While they're building a case on the surveillance side I start getting subpoenas for bank accounts, businesses and I start looking into information that way. And then I go and pass that info off to the agents. They go out, they start searching these locations, making arrests, making seizures of property, and then once we've got enough to do an arrest we go out and get the search warrant from all the information that we have been working on from the banks to the backgrounds to the social media and we just put it all together and here's the reason why we need the warrant and this is-- this is the information that we found and-- and that's pretty much how it goes. If there's nothing going on its nine to five, but big-- if something big happened like a mass shooting or something like that we-- we get called in and we either have command posts where we all are in a huge room with computers and live feeds and we're just in there, you know, gathering the intel or we're out in the field; if a mass shooting happens we're out in the field and we're on the scene collecting evidence and figuring out, you know, was there any associates we need to go track down right now.
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