Proactive Actions
Policing the Past: Protecting the
Future
By Nick Ashton, Founder, CEO,
Tracometry Group of Companies.
We do not any more new ideas to be tried this week! The art of control, policing, is alive and well and been doing great for centuries. It is the ability to take what has been successful in the past and easily overlay proven technology to actively understand your concerns and then eliminate them.
I was reading somewhere that things had been vastly different back in the day or had they?
England’s tithing system begun in 648 A.D. This system included groups of village men (usually 10) responding to the commission of a criminal offense. The group was summoned from the course of their daily routine by a “hue and cry” that beckoned a response to pursue the offender. Upon capturing the criminal, he was turned over to an authority and the group disbanded, returning to individual duties. Sounds kind of sane to me, if you want to be reactionary.
Fast-forward to today, 1365 years later and observe patrolling in action. They randomly move throughout a subjectively drawn geographic beat conducting independent police and non-police actions. The patterns they travel or the areas selectively chosen for conducting these random acts of policing don’t really matter. That is until the high-band radio cries out an offense in progress, and the non-cohesive actions of a clustering of officers’ turns into a coordinated mass response.
Singular in mission and motion, these officers unite for pursuing the so called offender. Once he or she is apprehended, the suspect is delivered to the local authority and the unit disbands back again into their non-choreographed areas of responsibility. We even still use the horse, domesticated dog, and chase on foot during these actions while remaining close to the historical roots of our enforcement service delivery methods. Although I’m sure even the village idiot would appreciate today’s police fleet advancements, whether it’s the act of deploying ultrasonic sound to disorient an offender, or throwing a rock from the village cliff, the philosophy of reactive police response remains unchanged from all those years ago.
Is this using our resources or inventory in
the right manner?No!
The policing evolution has been slow to come, but it is coming, I know so, as we are at the forefront. Citizens, elected officials, and progressive law enforcement commanders are demanding efficiency and effectiveness from agencies serving as peace keepers and social service providers. As a profession, policing assumes responsibility for measuring levels of crime and perceived effectiveness in combating that crime. This is a dangerous combination, and is similar to asking the fox to keep a count of the chickens. Feathers are strewn everywhere and those floating feathers never seem to hit the ground in real time, finding their way into our mouths, sticking and make us panic in the removal process.
Let us put the brakes on all these meetings and more bloody meetings and show you the answer. I know bold that we are and rightfully on-track, successful and down-to-earth in our methodology. I ask you to listen.
The Tracometry Group of Companies Circle of Fire is all encompassing, from the digital collection of
street level data through the crime
analytics, tracking, Calls for Service data, and
importantly, Next Event Predictability,
the Pied Piper Project –
rejuvenation and restoration of Trust,
Respect and Pride in communities
and recoupeit – reuniting revenues
to municipalities and cities from the already agreed court imposed and
ordinance fines.
We bring a full overview of the Tracometry
analytics at the heart of our services powered by our strategic partner, BAIR Analytics.
Firstly, on a more technical note, we couple
unique analytical methodologies and techniques with analyst-supporting software
applications to identify patterns and predict serial events. This capability
has been developed to aid analysts in better assessing the “when” and “where” of events through sophisticated software applications of
predominately off-the-shelf technologies and analytical techniques that have
been melded together in a unique way.
It is considered the best of its kind
in the market place today with respect to predictive analytics for fighting
domestic crime with similar performance for the DoD and the Intelligence Community at both the tactical and
strategic levels.
In its first trial within the DoD Joint Improvised Explosive Device
Defeat organization (JIEDDO), it has proven very successful countering
terrorist intent on ‘blowing up’ U.S. tactical vehicles, undisputedly saving
hundreds of U.S. lives on the battle field. With minimal modification and
marginal costs BAIR Analytic’s capabilities can be adapted to other
counter-terrorist and counter-threat programs within DoD (Service Branches, Combatant Commands, Provost Marshall), DHS
(Federal Protective Service, I&A, Cyber Security, Secret Service) the
Intelligence community (DNI, DIA, CIA, NSA, NGA, NRO, AFISRA, ONI, MCIA, NCTC)
and the Department of State (Bureau of Counter-Terrorism, Bureau of Diplomatic
Security).
Tracometry’s Tools, powered by BAIR Analytics and Methodologies
Embraced by the Department of Defense
These tools and methodologies are currently being used by
the JIEDDO as a unique counterterrorism and counter-threat capability that has
directly contributed to saving lives of our nation’s warfighters. This is being
accomplished through BAIR’s groundbreaking behavioral pattern analysis and
predictive analytics, greatly enhancing the capabilities needed to
accomplish JIEDDO’s mission to assist in anticipating, searching, locating and
removing or neutralizing IEDs from the battlefield and attacking the enemy
networks which employ IEDs.
Predictions of behavior, space and
time made by analysts using BAIR tools and methodologies are relevant to
operational warfighters - not only to Route Clearance Teams clearing roadways,
but also to intelligence sections with the primary mission of attacking the
enemy network. At JIEDDO, predicting future events allows for preventing,
deterring, disrupting, or displacing nefarious activity, thus enabling our
warfighters to “get left of boom” to protect lives and accomplish the mission.
In addition to the analytical work
being done at JIEDDO, our software applications and training have been
implemented at regional offices of the U.S. Army’s Provost Marshall to confront
burgeoning crime trends and patterns on military posts. The application of
these tools has led officers to “the exact time and place the bad guy hit next.”
Asked in a meeting the other
day, if the DoD was using us with specific designed software, we had and do
answer this way, due to security restrictions of information, the answers
simple, it was for our street level ability that we were chosen. Our everyday abilities for all, which of
course includes every crime analytic department worldwide. We give the same capabilities to all to catch
the bad guys in the most cost effective, time saving resource utilization.
Tool-Enhanced Analytical Capabilities with Tracometry Analytics, powered
by BAIR Analytics provides the development of dynamic and complex
analytical solutions to critical and hazardous problem sets through the
utilization of advanced Tactical, Strategic and Operational analyses.
Our analysts,
supplemented by a robust suite of proprietary software tools, are able to
identify patterns of illegal and nefarious activities allowing for the
prediction of the next event. The software applications are used to enhance the
analyst’s capabilities by uniquely combining tools and analytical techniques
not found in other software applications:
·
dSpace – used
to spatially predict next events
·
Next-Event Time Series – used to temporally predict next events
·
TeXtraction
– Used to perform text analytics to find entities, relationships
and events within text-based data
·
Concepts
& KWIC
Expressions – Used to mine data for key terms, individuals, actions or
attributes
·
Temporal
Topology – used to visualize relationships between days and times
of events
·
Choropleth
Calendar – used to visualize relationships between days and months
of events
·
Anniversary
Watch – used to measure the relationship between events and key
historically important dates, seasons or previous events
·
T-Coordinate – used
to measure the duration of events in a series
·
Calendar
Topology - used to visualize the volume of events over long periods
of time
Color Cueing – used
to visualize values or densities in a dataset or map
Blink – used
to determine the connectivity, relevance, structure and crucial linkages
between key nodes in a social or organizational network of individuals or
entities
3D Hotspots - used to calculate and visualize concentrations of
activity geospatially
Prediction Zones –
used to forecast concentrations and migrations of future threat activity
geospatially
Trend
Hunter – used to automatically identify new events in existing
patterns
This unique combination of tools allows the trained
analyst to ingest large volumes of structured and unstructured data to quickly
identify and analyze events resulting in accurate and precise next event
predictions.
Time is of the essence and when a potential client ask of
his analysts, if they could do with the present in-house system, what
Tracometry does, they paused, and answered yes, but, what Tracometry does in
seconds and minutes, would take us half a day!
This is just a mere sample of what we are doing
today. It allows you to use your
restricted resources in ways you never imagined.
Instead of using man power, overtime you can ill afford in
following a suspect, using our predictive analysis, we pinpoint the day,
location and possible time of the suspects’ next actions. Allowing normal work to continue and not
wasting resources, yes, bankable resources for that rainy day.
So stop the Perpetual
Beta Phenomenon
and start using proven, state of the art technology today!
Book
a demonstration through one of our personal webinars to see how cost effective
crime fighting really is.
WE
are in the NOW and
KEEP YOU; in the KNOW…
Call: +1 (317) 426.0110
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2013
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