Visual Analytics Law Enforcement Toolkit (VALET)

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Research Areas: Prevention, Detection and Response

Principal Investigator: David Ebert

The exploration of criminal incident reports for detecting trends, discovering anomalies and evaluating resource usage is an ever-expanding issue for law enforcement agencies.  As such, tools need to be developed that assist law enforcement officials in their analysis in order to take preventive measures and judiciously allocate available resources.  In order to better faciliate crime incident analysis, we have developed a comprehensive visual analytics system for both PC's and mobile devices which provides police officials with access to their data on the fly. Our system allows users to visualize data geo-spatially on a map and provides filtering tools that filter crime by the type of offense committed.  The crime being visualized can additionally be filtered by time to analyze the correlation of different crimes with time.  Our system enables users to view a history of previous crime indicents and forecast a pattern of crime using automated algorithms.  Moreover, the users have the ability to receive immdediate feed of events.