Organized Crime
Organized criminal activity includes drug trafficking, human trafficking, stolen merchandise, counterfeiting, money laundering and extortion.
The challenge for investigators is consolidating and analyzing volumes of disparate data from a variety of sources. To further complicate matters, organized criminals do not confine themselves to state or national boundaries, meaning investigative teams need the ability to cooperate and share intelligence with others in the law enforcement community.
i2 software assists analysts and investigators assigned to organized crime cases by providing tools that capture and organize multi-source data, quickly discover the hidden connections in the data and communicate the results. It helps investigators understand a criminal network's hierarchy, how it operates, identify strategic targets, and focus resources.
Investigators and analysts collect data from a number of different sources including online public records, existing databases, communications records, and surveillance information. i2 software allows analysts to store, organize and access multi-source data without advanced technical expertise.
Using iBase, a database specifically designed for investigations and intelligence, analysts can quickly build and populate a database readily adapted for all types of data, allow security level access to team members, and run comprehensive reports.
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Charts like this help investigators identify the most significant areas of an investigation and aid decision makers in targeting their resources. |
Access to information in existing databases is created through iBridge, a connectivity solution that enables live connections to multiple databases located throughout an organization. iBridge allows analysts to use Analyst's Notebook to query databases without learning advanced query languages or relying on a database expert.
With i2 products, analysts will spend less time searching for captured information, creating more time for analysis.
After collection, analysts and investigators need the ability to find hidden connections and meaning within volumes of disparate data.
Analyst's Notebook can be used to:
- Understand the command structure of a criminal network
- Discover the scope of criminal activity
- Identify targets within a criminal organization
- Uncover patterns for proactive tactics
- Focus investigative resources
Analyst's Notebook enables analysts to quickly understand large amounts of data, uncover seemingly unrelated links and display complex information in intuitive visual charts. Charts can be generated automatically from structured data or the analyst can manually build visual representations.
These analytical charts show the relationship between people, places, events, vehicles, phone numbers and more. Analyst's Notebook also provides for common intelligence grading systems such as the widely used 4x4 method. This means the charts are more than just pictures; all underlying chart information is captured behind each chart entity and graded on reliability.
Analyst's Notebook is also used to visually analyze call data records to help reveal communication networks, focus the investigation and draw conclusions about future activity using temporal analysis. When organized criminals go to great lengths to disguise their call activity, PatternTracer can be used find hidden connections in volumes of call record data.
The progress and details of an organized crime investigation may make perfect sense to those who have spent months putting it together, but bringing others up to date can be challenging and time consuming.
Analyst's Notebook not only provides powerful analysis, it also generates charts that have proven effective in quickly communicating complex cases to team members, prosecutors and juries. Those who do not have access to Analyst's Notebook can be briefed with printed charts or electronically using i2's free ChartReader.
Analyst's Notebook was designed with cross-agency operations in mind. Information gathered by one law enforcement agency can be combined with that of others by simply dragging and dropping related charts in Analyst's Notebook. Matching entities are automatically merged, cards updated and new links are established on the chart.
The end result is an information sharing environment where law enforcement organizations can work together to crack sophisticated organized crime.
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