In the world we live in today, criminals are everywhere and there is a huge pressure on law enforcement to keep communities safe. With the advancements of technology in the past several years, specifically the use of data analytics, law enforcement is now able to fight, solve and even prevent crime far more accurately. Data makes it possible for agencies to identify crime patterns on a very detailed level in a safe and secure way. Law enforcement agencies are using a program called Microsoft Azure Data Lake to store data such as video, images and text in one single storage location. Police officers then use the Microsoft Cortana Analytics in order to analyze all the data that is collected. Officers are using these tools to predict, anticipate, and even prevent crimes. That is so crazy that with the help of data, officers can predict human behaviors and criminal patterns and act before a crime is even committed. Imagine how many lives can be saved if they are able to do this accurately. The Los Angeles police department has reduced burglaries by 33 percent, violent crimes by 21 percent and property crimes by 12 percent since they starting using big data models. Big data is also being used to identify white collar criminals involved in financial crimes such as insurance fraud, money laundering and others. Big data has opened up a new way to effectively fight against crime, and although it hasn’t eliminated crime completely from our society, it is helping to keep the streets more safe than ever before. As we learn more about big data, law enforcement will continue to find new ways to use the data collected to their advantage. I would love to live in a world where I don’t have to worry about all the strangers who walk around me, and maybe with the help of data this could be possible one day. Only time will tell.
Good read, thanks for sharing.
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