Analytic Maps for Law Enforcement Incident Correlation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Law enforcement agencies face challenges in determining the effectiveness of policing strategies and resource allocation due to difficulties in analyzing the correlation between policing tactics and criminal activity, as well as managing the large volume of data from media recording devices used by officers.
Innovation Solution
The system generates analytic maps that show the geographical distribution of incidents, patrol routes, and officer activities, correlating data from media capture devices with supplemental information to provide pre-calculated map data for strategic policing, using a relational database for data storage and a non-relational database for real-time data processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If law enforcement agencies deploy additional personnel to trouble spots, then criminal activity in that location decreases, but it becomes difficult to determine whether the decline is due to increased community contacts and arrests or criminals moving to other locations
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by continuously collecting data from media recording devices, analyzing the correlation between policing activities and criminal activity locations, and providing this information back to law enforcement agencies to evaluate the effectiveness of their strategies and make data-driven decisions
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary data analysis system that acts as a mediator between policing activities and their effects. This system processes media recording data, incident location data, and policing strategy data to reveal correlations that would otherwise be difficult to detect, enabling agencies to understand the true impact of their tactics
2Reliability
If law enforcement agencies equip officers with media recording devices, then they can protect the public and officers from misconduct allegations, but they face difficulty sorting and correlating the large volume of captured data assets with incidents
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the large volume of media recording data into manageable units by associating each recording with specific incident data, location information, and temporal markers. This segmentation allows agencies to sort and retrieve relevant data assets efficiently without being overwhelmed by the total volume of recordings
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a data correlation system that acts as an intermediary between media recording devices and incident reports. This intermediary automatically matches recordings with corresponding incidents using location, time, and other contextual data, dramatically reducing the manual sorting burden on law enforcement agencies
3Productivity
If law enforcement agencies increase proactive police patrols in certain neighborhoods, then criminal activity may be reduced in those areas, but it may be difficult to analyze whether this tactic is effective without comprehensive data analysis
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback by analyzing the correlation between increased patrol activities (from media recording device locations) and criminal activity patterns in specific neighborhoods, enabling agencies to evaluate whether proactive policing tactics are achieving their intended effects and adjust strategies accordingly
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes parameter changes by analyzing variations in media recording device deployment patterns, incident rates, and temporal distributions to determine the effectiveness of different policing tactics across various neighborhoods, allowing for data-driven optimization of resource allocation
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AI summary
Analytic maps may be used to develop and refine law enforcement strategies. Initially, the data assets and associated telemetry information of media recording devices may be stored in a primary database. The data assets include an audio recording, a video recording, or a multimedia recording. The associated telemetry information includes geolocations of the media recording devices at multiple times. References to the data assets and duplicate of the associated telemetry information are stored in a secondary database, in which the secondary database may provide faster data read speed than the primary database. Pre-calculations are performed based at least on the telemetry information as stored in the secondary database according to one or more mapping parameters to generate multiple sets of pre-calculated data. A set of pre-calculated data is then sent for presentation on an analytic map of a dashboard displayed on a remote computing device.