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Fight Crime More Effectively with Predictive Analytics

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The role of law enforcement continues to evolve. In addition to traditional responsibilities such as combating street crime and protecting public safety, police departments must also guard against acts of terrorism and criminal activities in cyberspace.

Increased responsibilities challenge law enforcement agencies to maximize the effectiveness of their personnel and other resources. Predictive analytics can play a key role in helping your agency deploy resources effectively and in line with community expectations, while achieving improved results.

SPSS has hundreds of customers worldwide among local, regional, and national law enforcement agencies, court systems, correctional institutions, and parole boards.

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SPSS’ predictive analytics solutions enable agencies to uncover patterns in massive amounts of data and anticipate what types of intervention may be needed. This enables them to base decisions on data-driven models that precisely describe both current and developing conditions. As a result, policing agencies can:

Deploy personnel more effectively—reducing costs while improving results, and increasing officers’ safety and job satisfaction
Predict which events are most likely to escalate into serious or violent crimes, and guard against this
Solve criminal cases more efficiently
Explore security threats and study the people and organizations involved
Deliver information to the field, where and when it’s needed

With the open architecture of SPSS solutions, your agency can interoperate with other systems and software, giving you access to data developed by other agencies. You can even include text from sources such as incident reports and witness statements.

You can also gain greater community support for law enforcement programs with help from feedback management solutions offered by SPSS. These solutions enable your department to enrich the understanding you may have gained through community meetings and other methods with questionnaires that citizens can complete easily and cost-effectively. Greater understanding enables your department to align its priorities with those of the community. This not only can increase the cooperation you receive in criminal investigations, it can lead to greater overall support for public safety and community outreach programs.

Customer story: Richmond, Virginia, Police Department

Using resources most effectively is critical in law enforcement. Data mining helps uncover patterns in criminal behavior, enabling the Richmond Police Department to deploy officers where they are most needed and accelerate criminal investigations.
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