Streamline investigations with crime analysis tools at Booz Allen

Create the technology that detects crime

As criminals use new technologies to further their illegal activities, law enforcement agencies should equip their investigators with the best and most advanced crime analysis tools.

With a growing number of widely accessible and easy-to-use hardware and software options, criminals are finding increasingly sophisticated ways to cover their tracks. For an investigator, that means tracking an illegal transaction could involve text messages on a burner phone; encrypted messages via apps such as WhatsApp, Signal or Viber; Emails on numerous platforms; Bitcoin transactions; and so forth. It is not uncommon for a single crime to involve up to ten applications across four platforms. Routine law enforcement today requires the ability to understand and decipher an ever-growing list of ever-evolving technologies.

The situation is even scarier at the agency level. A single subpoena of chat transactions can bring back terabytes of structured and unstructured data. Manually compiling relevant information from such a flood of data can take months. For law enforcement agencies, extracting investigative value from billions of data points from different sources presents a variety of new technical challenges.

How new crime analysis tools can help

To meet these challenges, law enforcement must leverage powerful processing and analysis technologies. New tools that leverage these technologies can reduce the time agents spend manually processing, cleaning, and reviewing data.

As an industry leader in data science and data management, Booz Allen has a long history of developing analytics-driven, risk-based detection capabilities for law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and other federal and commercial customers.

Leveraging this experience, Booz Allen has accumulated more than 20 years of experience supporting law enforcement agencies throughout the investigative lifecycle and assembled a suite of investigative data management and analysis tools, combining them into a flexible, seamless ecosystem. It works across the entire criminal justice cycle, giving investigators the tools they need to focus on what matters most – detecting crimes and identifying those responsible.

Your criminal investigation and prosecution suite is designed to streamline the prosecution lifecycle and improve case success rates. Its key features include:

• Tool for decoding investigative data and automating investigative workflows

One such product, a message mapping app, frees agents from having to manually edit hundreds of thousands of lines in a dozen or more spreadsheets to map a suspect's communication patterns. Instead, artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques can be used to automatically generate a map by simply uploading the relevant files to the app. What used to take months now takes just minutes. Instead of using paper or spreadsheets, agents can identify, organize, and track leads using a system that captures data and generates lead reports. These and other applications integrate beautifully with popular technology platforms and can be deployed in a small footprint in less than a day.

• A single platform to aggregate and share enterprise-level data

By aggregating data from multiple sources, investigators can identify connections that cannot be identified by looking at the same data sources alone. With data development and analysis tools integrated into a single platform, agents can much more easily uncover connections between sources by connecting different identifiers and assigning them to a single person or entity. These connections and other analyzes can be viewed through easy-to-understand dashboards that are ideal for presenting cases to prosecutors.

• Curated data streams that help quickly assess the quality of investigative leads

At the start of an investigation, open source and commercial data can help quickly identify potential concerns related to individuals or organizations. Their suite's data subscription services provide investigators with critical information through a quick search, helping them determine the pedigree of a lead and determine whether it's worth following or a case worth opening.

Case closed: Big data analysis tools allow investigators to focus on what matters most

Tools like Booz Allen's crime investigation and law enforcement suite help agents and crime analysts move investigations more efficiently by eliminating frustrating technical and administrative data processing work. Less time spent processing data and more time understanding a case results in far better case closure rates. Their flexible platform enables law enforcement agencies to control access to data, select and integrate the tools that meet their specific needs, and quickly deploy new tools on the field.

Booz Allen is ready to help law enforcement agencies meet evolving data needs and overcome the technological challenges that criminals hide behind.

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