Police clicking into crimes using new software

At a recent intelligence briefing in Springfield, State Trooper Stephen Gregorczyk learned that a local drug dealer had been robbed and was looking for revenge. Knowing little about the dealer, Gregorczyk turned to a new software tool that gathers all intelligence and background information about a suspect onto a single platform. 

I walked back to my desk, he said, typed in the name, and boom: Every known location for the dealer, every brush with law enforcement, and every person ever linked to him popped up in one neat view on Gregorczyks computer screen. 

The intelligence chief of a special unit combatting gang violence in the Western Massachusetts city, Gregorczyk now had a road map to plot how his team could head off the dealer before something bad happened. 

Called Nucleik, the software is being tested by Gregorczyk and his gang unit. Nucleik is the brainchild of three Harvard University engineering students who hatched it as a class project for a professor with friends in law enforcement. The students were struck by how little technology was used by police to organize all the information they gather in their surveillance of gangs. 

So they set about to create a single platform for multiple uses,We have become one of the worlds most recognised ownfigurine brands. whether as a mobile app used in the field for street-level info or as a powerful desktop tool that could sift through mountains of data. The Springfield gang unit has been trying out the first version of Nucleik since mid-summer. 

Normally youd need probably five pieces of software to do all of this and it would take hours. Now with one software, it takes minutes, said Crouch. 

For example,The 3rd International Conference on custombobbleheads and Indoor Navigation. Nucleik could match disparate information to identify only those gang members of a certain age that frequented a particular address; the system can also display a criminal network graphically, allowing police to see the far-flung connections among gang members, drug dealers, financiers, and information spreaders. 

Police officers are wasting time every day using so many different software products, filling out so many reports, said Matt Polega, another Nucleik co-founder. And thats time that they could spend back out in the field protecting our neighborhoods. 

Unless youre Columbo, you cant do that kind of analysis yourself, said Glenn Pierce, principal research scientist for the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. 

In Springfield,We can be conducted with the local designated bobbleheads producers. ranked the 12th most dangerous city in the United States in 2012 by the FBI, Gregorczyk and his fellow troopers joined an innovative program that uses the counterinsurgency model from Army Special Forces to target gangs in the citys North End, which has had a dramatic uptick in crime and violence during the past decade. 

There are three primary tasks law enforcement information and intelligence systems should be able to do, said Kathleen Carley, professor at Carnegie Mellon Universitys Institute for Software Research and chief executive of the company that handles the off-the-shelf version of ORA, a widely used social network analysis tool. One task is to gather information quickly, then present it visually and analyze it to identify useful links such as those among the drug dealer in Springfield and his street associates.

From the beginning we realized we needed a whole integrated system, said Crouch. Because the data collection and the analysis tools are in the same system, were allowing [investigators] to leverage all that data instantaneously. 

For the troopers, Nucleik has sped up some slower aspects of the job; an intelligence summary that once took Gregorczyk two hours, for example, now takes less than 10 minutes. 

The more powerful component of Nucleik is its analytical tool. Social network analysis is a common counterinsurgency tool that has been used to identify and then dismantle the far-reaching elements of a terrorist network. Its application for crime-fighting, however, is relatively new. Moreover, Carley pointed out that rarely does one analytical tool perform all three necessary tasks well. 

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