DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION FOR CRIME ANALYSIS… A NEW PARADIGM
KeyCrime is an innovative startup with a strong social impact that operates in the public security sector. We help our customers effect Digital Transformation for and Crime Analysis through our crime analysis solution, delia®. KeyCrime, through its software, supports Law Enforcement Agencies and Police Departments in their difficult task of bringing order and security to the cities in which we live.
KeyCrime’s delia® solution is designed to support the investigative efforts of Police forces by matching information so that they can make the right decisions.
STANDARDIZED DATA COLLECTION
delia® guides Law Enforcement Agency users through the interview process, guaranteeing that complete data is collected.
SUPPORT FOR CRIME DATA ANALYSIS
delia® takes into account more than 1.5 Mln variable combinations ranging from the more general (eg: date, time, place of the event) to the very specific.
CRIME LINKING
Custom algorithms help delia® to rank against the existing crimes in the database, providing police with insights on which crimes may be part of.
PREDICTIVE CRIME ANALYSIS
Using the Spatial, Temporal and Behavioural characteristics of linked events, delia® helps users interpret the time intervals, target types and geographical areas of the series so that officers can predict the next possible event.
CRIME PREVENTION AND REPRESSION
By understanding the criminal mind, delia® encapsulates theories for detecting serial criminals, exploring and analyzing the data of each criminal event.
SKY TG24: 77% FEWER ROBBERIES IN MILAN - HOW DID THEY DO IT?
Sky TG24's Helga Cossu interviewed Mario Venturi, KeyCrime's President and Founder on the program Progress: Innovaction, delving into how Milan's police have been so successful, aided by their use of the KeyCrime #delia® software, how the idea came to be and what the future might hold for KeyCrime (hint: the next frontier could be the city of Turin!).
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SUCCESS FOR THE POLICE in their fight against robberies.
For the Police, the successes related to the use of the application "KeyCrime delia®" in the fight against robberies are growing.
"... According to the Chief of Police, the numbers confirm that the work carried out by the Police is effective" explains President Racca to FPress "thanks to the KeyCrime system, the perpetrators of 77% of last year's robberies have already been identified, arrested or referred to the judicial authorities..." - KeyCrime
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Violence against women is not acceptable at any level nor at any latitude; fighting it must be a daily priority for all of us. Even today it has the dimensions of a global pandemic: more than a billion women worldwide, or one in three women, have suffered it (source: UN). But this is only a part of the picture, which takes into account only the crimes that have been reported, brought to light through the courage of the victims; Closely related to physical violence, made up of abuse, torture and mistreatment, is the far more subtle but equally dangerous violence made up of words, pressure,
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A robber with a taste for antique weaponry was arrested in Milan after a robbery in Via Millelire. The police were forewarned and already on the scene when the 52 year old robber struck thanks to the Police's VI Mobile Squad and a little help from the software KeyCrime delia®.
With a hoodie and a mask, the 52 year old robber thought each raid was a sure thing. Each time he would study the situation in the pharmacy or supermarket, pretending to be a customer, proceed to the cash register as though to make a purchase and then pull out a replica antique revolver. His age, the old-style revolver and his habit of leaving through the back door (in Italian: "retro") all led to the investigators pursuing the case to nickname the crime series "retrò".
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KeyCrime's Brad Hathaway took a practical approach to #ResponsibleAI in his talk on December 10th, 2021 at the Internet Governance Forum Poland's International Security & Digital Council remote hub in Rome. The exchange with Avv. Benvegnù, especially during the question and answer at the end was thought provoking.
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KeyCrime is proud to announce that our own Brad Hathaway delivered a preview of the soon to be published article “Digital Transformation: a proactive approach to investigations” on November 12th at the 8th annual congress of COISP – Coordinamento per L’Indipendenza Sindacale delle forze di Polizia
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Another step ahead for KeyCrime and Law Enforcement! KeyCrime has just “broken ground” on the development of a connector for viewing KeyCrime delia® Suite data in IBM’s i2 platform. This is groundbreaking in more ways than one – KeyCrime’s unique approach to Data Transformation for Law Enforcement agencies is tailor-made for capturing exactly the type of data that IBM’s i2 platform excels at helping Police Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies worldwide to visualize on a daily basis. We’re excited to be contributing yet another use case for Law Enforcement to IBM’s i2 Analyst Notebook and i2 Enterprise Insight Analysis platforms’ already overwhelming set of tools for Law Enforcement Agencies.
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How do you preserve the know-how and analytical capabilities of investigators, transforming them into shared assets for future investigations? After the criminal investigation wraps up, what are the advantages for prosecutors when investigators have used analytical techniques and technologies to establish that the accused perpetrated a crime series? KeyCrime’s Mario Venturi and Maurizio Sanarico answer these and other questions in the Rai – Radiotelevisione Italiana (Italian National TV) program “Stem: Crimine”, broadcast September 30th and now available in streaming on raiplay.
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KeyCrime is excited to announce the renewal of the KeyCrime delia® distribution contract with PSS in Spain. We are very much looking forward to continuing our collaboration with PSS, well known in Spain, Portugal and South America for helping their customers implement the best possible solutions for their needs with the leading software products available on the market and stellar professional services. KeyCrime is proud to have been selected by PSS for the Law Enforcement vertical as a key solution that will initially help Spanish Law Enforcement Agencies to make #SaferStreets in their cities for both citizens and Law Enforcement Officer.
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KeyCrime delia® helps stop serial robbers in Milan. For anyone that knows the KeyCrime story, this isn’t news at all of course, but a few times a year, the results of our work makes the news. Today was one of those days. The armed criminal group nicknamed “White Bag” had two members apprehended today by the officers from the Mecenate Police Station in Milan. KeyCrime’s delia was instrumental in the investigation performed by the office of Statistics and Crime Analysis that brought them to justice. Many more details in the link above, courtesy of the Questura di Milano.
Reporting via Sky tg24, Corriere Della Sera, La Repubblica, Il Giorno, ANSA, Milano Today among others.
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We were thrilled when Jennifer Doleac’s Probable Causation podcast interviewed Professor Giovanni Mastrobuoni at the end of August because many of the conclusions they reached have profound implications for the world of policing and investigators' adoption of technology. One in particular is something we’ve been saying from the start: enhancing policing with the right technology should be possible without causing racial bias. We founded KeyCrime to assist investigators in mapping out a specific criminal’s crime series because Enhanced Crime Analysis is one way we believe KeyCrime can help Law Enforcement Agencies to follow the criminal and not just police the area in order to make the world a better and safer place.
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A 52-year-old laborer was arrested by the Milan Police on charges of robbing a clothing store in the ‘Coccinelle’ franchise in Corso Genova in Milan. The man, wearing a mask, hat and sunglasses, frightened the saleswoman with a prop gun and stole 200 euros from the cash register, before leaving. Stationed outside, waiting for him, were the policemen of the ‘Hawks’, a group specialized in fighting widespread crime, who were stationed in the area after the analysis of the KeyCrime system, which had identified a robber who always acted using a black canvas bag to stash his hauls.
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A rank-and-file officer in the Milan Police Department created a computer program called KeyCrime that has revolutionised how the city catches robbers. When Mario Venturi was assigned to the property division in 2004, his team worked without the help of computers. Venturi thought there was a better way and enlisted the help of some programmer friends to design an algorithm to automate investigation. He convinced his bosses to put the software into action in 2008. Since the Milan Police Department started using KeyCrime, the number of robberies in the city has fallen by 51 percent while the rate of solved cased increased to 60 percent.
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Our innovative approach to digital transformation for the crime investigation life cycle for our law enforcement customers is well, it's very innovative. It's new! It's something that it's little bit difficult to explain! That's! Why we've put together this but video help you understand better what it is we do why we do it and what the benefits are.
It keep crime command's the latest technologies and modern investigative practices to help police forces around the world prevent and fight serial crimes such as robbery, sexual assault, homicide theft, fraud and more KeyCrime allows organizations to easily save any information about crimes, helps analyze. Testimony highlight evidence relevant clues and organize this great amount of data in an easy to consult database, so that police officers can fully focus on the investigation.
That's artificial intelligence techniques used by KeyCrime that are able to process more than one point five million combinations of variables per crime, highlighting correlated evidence and criminal behavior, tell police officers, link crimes and identify criminals series.
This analytical process is what makes key crime of cutting edge tool for predictive crime analysis, allowing them to predict when, where and how the criminals likely to hit next improve the safety of police forces and optimize.
The dispatch of resources, Information provided by KeyCrime, allows them to carry out targeted prevention strategy, use catch offenders in the act and prove their responsibility for the entire criminal series. This leads to the right type of sentence. It has been proven that keep crime improves, community safety, police security, crime prevention and repression and makes judicial process is faster and more accurate, leading to her adoption in the number of crimes and economic damage to the community, both tangible and intangible.
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Every location is different.
Typical criminal behavior and characteristics in, say, Bogota, Columbia will be quite different from those in Boston, Massachusetts in the USA or Milan in Italy Targets will be different as well as timing and physical characteristics.
These differences are at the root of why here at KeyCrime we’ve applied Artificial Intelligence techniques to our proven approach to reducing crime in our delia® solution. In fact, delia® stands for Dynamic Evolving Learning Integrated Algorithm The algorithms in delia® learn from the environments in which they operate and, thus, are able to help Law Enforcement Agencies across the globe in their daily job of preventing and repressing criminal activity while at the same time improving officer safety by providing the right information at the right time Finally, the information delia® gathers forms the foundation for prosecutors for making their cases in court for entire series of crimes and not just the latest one All of these characteristics make KeyCrime’s delia® software uniquely qualified to assist police departments worldwide in their investigative efforts
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“Predictive Crime Analysis” is a new term coined by KeyCrime. KeyCrime’s direct implementation of Crime Analysis focuses on crime series. It is made more accurate by AI and Machine Learning techniques. This is what makes it possible for our delia software to not only help police identify crime series but also help identify likely future targets for a criminal or criminal gang. delia stands for Dynamic Evolving Learning Integrated Algorithm and incorporates elements of each of these words in its code. Much as crime is dynamic, evolving and learns from experience so does the delia software. It captures as much information as is available from witnesses and victims through guided interviews and text notes from the law enforcement professionals. These details are then compared with information about existing crimes already in the delia database and likely matches for related crimes are proposed to the user / officer. After that with crimes linked in a series patterns can be spotted and criminals fall prey to forewarned and forearmed police.
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KeyCrime has grown far beyond the one product company that we were at the outset. We’ve assembled a team of experienced police personnel, enterprise software sales experts and a robust team of developers and data scientists with a built-out product already in-hand and the ideas and energy necessary to continue building out our product roadmap and go-to-market plan. We felt that it was time to both separate the company name from the existing product which we will rename Delia which stands for Dynamic Evolving Learning Integrated Algorithm as well as give ourselves room to grow with a new image, new website re-invigorated social media presence and all that these changes entail. We’re looking forward to continuing our engagement with the market and our partners under this new brand. I encourage you to visit our web site and our LinkedIn profile for more information about the “new" KeyCrime.
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KeyCrime is an innovative startup with a focus on social impact. We work in the public security sector in the area of "Predictive Crime Analysis" Schopenhauer once said:"Health is not everything, but without health, everything is nothing" We believe that a sense of security and safety is a key component and perhaps even the fundamental requirement for citizens to be happy. Much as health for the individual, security and safety are for the collective. Our goal as a company is to reduce crime and increase safety and security. Our founder, Mario Venturi, worked as a policeman for 30 years in the Polizia di Stato in Italy where he saw the power of applying data analysis to classical investigative techniques and decided to take action. We developed the software Delia to embody this approach and help police perform “predictive crime analysis” Our focus is on crime series targeting those habitual offenders that commit the majority of crimes and to reduce the series to the minimum possible number We believe this is a unique approach in the sector. We’ve enriched the technique through the addition of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning which takes the results to another level with respect to other approaches. We’re at the point where we can make specific recommendations for officers with respect to a crime series leading to significant impacts in prevention, repression and, perhaps most significantly, in bringing criminals to justice through the documentation we’re able to provide directly from the system to prosecutors. We’ve had independent researchers review the data from the use of our software in Milan and the results are clear: KeyCrime’s delia software helps police reduce crime by targeting repeat offenders through the identification of crime series. You can find additional information on our web site and our LinkedIn page including details of the academic study. Thank you very much
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This is Mario Ventury's story. He's a former cop who created crime analysis software. But how did it come to all this?
After winning the competition to join the police, he ran in 1987, then Mario was assigned to the Milanese flying team where he worked for five years. This was his second family. From the steering wheels, then, he arrived at the Special Operations General Investigations Division (DIGOS), where he remained for nine years, most of which in the anti-terrorism section and then had important experience in the general investigative sector. then he had finished his career in the anti-robbery section of the mobile team and now he is CEO of an innovative start-up that manages the development of the computer application, a software that allows the analysis of crimes. The mission of this reality is to support and help the police forces around the world in their activities to fight crime. How the KeyCrime software was invented and developed, Mario Venturi explains in this podcast.
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An article by Cesare Parodi and Valentina Sellaroli, reported in Contemporary Criminal Law (6/2019), illustrates its possibilities and legal implications. In fact, predictive software has long been used in various cities around the world. Each has peculiar characteristics, but there is a common trend: they focus on a purely statistical analysis, aimed at indicating the place and time when, most likely, a crime may occur. KeyCrime's delia® suite, instead of relying on mere statistical analysis and broad-based data collection, evaluates the risk of repeat offenses within a specific crime series based on direct and objective data from that series.
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The topic of artificial intelligence is among those that - for some years now - have monopolized attention, arousing hopes and questions from a sociological, scientific, economic and legal point of view. With regard to the latter aspect, there is a need to clarify in what terms the phenomenon must be framed and - above all - within what limits forms of use of artificial intelligence can enter the investigative, cognitive and evaluative heritage of the criminal system. An answer to these questions could make it possible to combine the enormous potential of the sector with the need for efficiency in the prevention and repression of various criminal forms, while at the same time ensuring full protection for the guarantees of individual associates.
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What is the difference between KeyCrime and other predictive police software? The idea was born by analyzing, for work, a mountain of files related to the various crimes, in which the data were collected summarily but still contained information that would allow us to hypothesize behind which crimes, even if occurred in different times and places, there was the same hand”, tells the founder of KeyCrime.
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At the event organized by IBM, Mario is invited to tell his story:
"Ten years ago I was a policeman. I found myself at the Milan police station in a room with a desk full of files concerning criminal events committed in the city of Milan . These files were bright, there were many in Milan in 2008. There is talk of about seven hundred robberies, perpetrated solely for commercial activities. It was difficult for us employees of the State Police to carry out investigative activities aimed at preventing this type of phenomenon in a manner From there I was born the idea, the thought, the curiosity to understand if it was possible to create an IT tool, which could support our activity, in the investigative activity. This is how this tool was born, which begins its operation in 'year two thousand and eight, when I propose it to the Milan police headquarters after working on it for three years, as a tool for the analysis of criminal events and as predictive software or. KeyCrime is a tool that, through the analysis of the elements collected in the past, has forecasting capabilities on what could happen in the future. In ten years we have managed to reduce the number of criminal events in Milan, as regards robberies perpetrated in the commercial sector, by 58%. After this first experimentation, which clearly gave a good result, we moved on to the more complex analysis of the robberies carried out in the banking sector. very important we have reduced the robbery by eighty two percent months of pivotal steps of this path in two thousand seventeen we create a skipped StartUp that aims to bring to reengineering first of all this project which up to that moment was to be considered a prototype and aims, in fact , to bring this tool to the benefit of the global community. Our mission is to support the police forces around the world in ensuring order, public safety in the cities where we live. "
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KeyCrime, the software, was born fourteen years ago within the state police. Mario Venturi is a former employee of the state police who during his activity found himself analyzing a lot of information that was contained in the complaints, and therefore referred to criminal events.
It is precisely by doing this activity that we realized that inside there were elements that, if well collected and cataloged, could provide important ideas for investigations.
Hence the idea of creating an application, within which to enter this information to be able to predict the persistence of a criminal fact. Said like this, it looks like a science fiction film, in reality it is not, because an application that has already been tested in the state police for a decade, KeyCrime, is able to compare the actions of crimes, the means and the behaviors. with the information that is present within the crimes archived, and goes to detect the elements that characterized the criminal actions, recognizing the same hand with facts that occurred in different times and places. In this way it is possible to isolate serious criminals, through the study of man, in criminal action.
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The world of predictive software is evolving rapidly and as a result it is becoming more and more reliable and even more attractive to the world of venture capital. And because applying technology to policing makes the world better for citizens, KeyCrime attracted the attention of the noted ‘social innovation’ venture capital firm, Oltre Venture. (Article in Italian)
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Mario Venturi, assistant chief of the Milan police headquarters, invented the KeyCrime program 14 years ago, an example of a successful merger between computer science and investigation that has made it possible to significantly reduce the number of robberies in the city. KeyCrime is an advanced system whose algorithm revolves around the concept of crime series, because every robbery has a sort of "fingerprint", that is to say the repetition of methods, timing and mistakes.
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Can we imagine one day that a thief, a rapist or any other criminal is arrested before he even commits his crime? This science fiction scenario is already a reality in the cantons of Zurich and Aargau, but also in Milan or in the United States. Predicting the location and date of the next crime is called predictive policing. This new method is already used daily to stop a series of crimes. A simple computer, a machine that calculates a probability for a given area and time, allows the police to anticipate theft even before it is committed.
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We are Inside the analysis and planning office of the Milan police headquarters which deals with the analysis of crimes. This is done through an innovative tool, which is the KeyCrime software, which allows to fight crime more effectively.
This idea was born several years ago, in a particular historical moment, Milan was experiencing an important problem with regard to robberies perpetrated in commercial dress.
The process is complex, it first of all involves a meticulous collection of information regarding the crime, this information is then processed by the application algorithm which provides probabilistic indications on a future crime.
Following a robbery, the steering wheel intervenes on the spot. Once the wheel arrives on the spot, it tries to acquire all the elements that characterized that other criminal. This information is then transferred to the analysis and planning office to be entered into KeyCrime.
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A rank-and-file officer in the Milan Police Department created a computer program called KeyCrime that has revolutionised how the city catches robbers. When Mario Venturi was assigned to the property division in 2004, his team worked without the help of computers. Venturi thought there was a better way and enlisted the help of some programmer friends to design an algorithm to automate investigation. He convinced his bosses to put the software into action in 2008. Since the Milan Police Department started using KeyCrime, the number of robberies in the city has fallen by 51 percent while the rate of solved cased increased to 60 percent.
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Prevent Crimes Before They Happen: Science fiction, maybe yes, but there is a computer program that already does something similar.
As in Minorty Report, imagine a criminal who is stopped even before committing the crime, there is an algorithm that makes science fiction a possibility of the present: The KeyCrime, adopted for some years by the Milan police and which allows you to predict the offenses.
As? Crossing the data relating to the crimes with those of their perpetrators, all thanks to the insights of an enterprising policeman of the Flying Squad.
The software analyzes the day, time and place of crimes that have already occurred, linking them with the physical and character characteristics of those who committed them: a thief who robs pharmacies will continue to strike at similar places and at the same times. It is proven that those who commit thefts at the beginning of the week are unlikely to take action on the weekend.
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In Chieti, this morning, a conference was held for all law enforcement agencies in which the Deputy Chief of Police Luigi Savina took part, at the center of attention a software programmed to predict the most common crimes, a tool for technological innovation that the forces of law and order bring fully into their offices.
In recent times, many IT components have come to speed up and simplify the work against crime.
Luigi Savina, Deputy Chief of State Police: "It is a particular software, it is called KeyCrime, and it goes towards the path that all the police forces in the world are pursuing: the prediction of crimes. You think that knowing where a crime can be committed, at least the area, at least a certain type of activity, means guiding the police, it means carrying out targeted activities.
This is the future of all the police in the world. In this case, the Italian police, the Milan police headquarters, on some types of crimes: serial crimes. He has experimented with this computer tool with great success. "
If on the one hand the crisis has reduced the funds allocated to the police, arousing not a few controversies, on the other hand history teaches how and to what extent technological innovation has played a fundamental role in supporting and supervising the work of men of law.
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Through its proprietary algorithms, KeyCrime delia® Suite searches for correlations between a new crime and the many criminal events in its database, assigning a score for each comparison: the higher the score, the more likely it is that the crimes were part of the same series. Investigators then analyze the behavior of the perpetrator across multiple crimes to be able to predict where the next event will occur.
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From software that predicts crimes to drones. Technology promises more safety. But does it threaten our privacy?
The policeman stops the suspect, points the gun, asks to raise their hands. The boy refuses. And, when he reaches into his bag, the officer chills him, mistakenly thinking he is about to take a weapon. Fortunately, the only real element is ... the policeman.
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We are in Milan, the capital of luxury and a favorite place for robbers. To track them down, the police now have a brand new KeyCrime software that allows, for example, an arrest in the pharmacy, where the robber worked for four months according to the same operating procedure, always in the same area. It is the software that provided all this information. "Unlike the United States and Germany, in Italy we don't focus on crimes, but on the people who commit them" is what Mario Venturi, the Police Assistant who developed this software thanks to his idea, says.
The KeyCrime software would have reduced the number of robberies in Milan by over thirty percent.
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Who knows if robbed thieves and scammers will ever be caught planning a robbery, for sure now they risk being caught a moment later with the loot in hand, before they manage to get in the car and escape.
They already call it a "program to prevent robberies" and it is not an American fictional idea, an official of the Milan police station developed it and it is giving the very first results, at least for serial robbers. The software catalogs a series of information, creates a database, starts comparisons and predicts the future event with a probability calculation. A system that allows the police to post where the computer indicates that a robbery might take place.
In Milan, the robbers were caught like this: they came out of a supermarket and found agents waiting for them. In short, for the Milanese police the present is already the future.
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Predict robberies? At the police headquarters in Milan they do it with Keycrime, the algorithm developed by a policeman inspired by Sherlock Holmes. In Italy he hasn't found investments and now the United States could steal it from us.
On the computer screen the map of Milan is marked by some red dots: a line connects them, node after node, following a precise chronological itinerary. It is the crime series carried out by a robber, target after target.
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"The software for the analysis of criminal events KeyCrime is in experimental use at the Milan police headquarters, which has decided to adopt it to combat the phenomenon of robberies perpetrated in the commercial and credit institutions sector. The results we have kept are more than satisfactory: There are six hundred robberies a year that take place against the businesses of the city of Milan, of these six hundred, about forty percent weighs against the pharmacies. This is the reason for the resettlement that we have done here in the state of the state police.
The results we have obtained in contrasting the phenomenon of this specific criminal act, I refer to the robbery perpetrated against pharmacies, is more than satisfactory, in fact, in the year 2013, of the 254 robberies committed against city pharmacies, eighty-one for one hundred of these cases have been solved or, also through the use of this system,
we have come to the identification of the authors. Similarly, we have obtained excellent results for combating robberies to other commercial establishments and credit institutions where, in 2013, we recorded 87% of resolved facts. The application has the following operation: we have a first phase that concerns the insertion of the data referring to the event we are analyzing, and then continues with an analysis of the same elements, which is automatically followed by the software. The purpose is to link events that occurred in different times and places together, bringing them back to a single hand, even if unknown. Add to this activity, the forecasting ability of this application of a future event linked to the criminal seriality that we have isolated.
There are several cases where the state police stationed themselves on the place provided by the software where the criminal event could have occurred, thus bringing the perpetrators under arrest."
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Five times the resolution rate for robberies
Catch serial offenders in the act - or know beforehand where they will strike next and then wait for them on the spot. The dream of many investigators seems to be coming true, at least in Milan. Because there a policeman spent years developing a computer program that creates criminal profiles and systematically brings down criminals. It can even predict future deeds. As a result, the clearance rate for robberies alone has increased almost fivefold.
'Keycrime' is the name of the software that police sergeant Mario Venturi has developed. She systematically analyzes all the details of the crime. Different crimes can be assigned to the same perpetrator or the same gang. "We can often make a prediction of where the serial offenders will act in the future," reports Venturi proudly. "In several cases, the Milan police were able to arrest people before they carried out the attack."
The FBI is also interested in the program
This is possible because not only the date, place, clothing and weapons used are evaluated for the perpetrator profile, but also images from surveillance cameras and statements from witnesses. Up to 11,000 pieces of data are recorded for each crime. Thanks to 'Keycrime', the clearance rate for robberies in Milan rose from ten to 45 percent. In the case of robberies on pharmacies, it is now an impressive eighty percent.
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Milan and its province an area of 1,500 square kilometers inhabited by almost 4 million people. Confused among these citizens who hurry to the workplace, the perpetrators of the more than 2000 robberies carried out every year also wander undisturbed. Covered face and gun in hand, the criminals carry out from 5 to 6 robberies a day against supermarkets, pharmacies, banks and shops in general. Police footage highlights the speed with which criminals take possession of the loot and then vanish into thin air. 75 percent of robberies remain unsolved. When the wheel arrives on the spot, the criminals have long since disappeared and the agents have no choice but to collect the witnesses' accounts and draw up the minutes. Recently, however, something has changed.
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He robbed the same pharmacy in Milan three times in a month, always on Fridays and always between 2:00 and 2.30 PM. And these habits were the downfall for Paolo Davide Simula, a 26-year-old convict, arrested by the officers of the Scalo Romana police station at the end of the last robbery at his "usual" pharmacy in via Boifava.
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Robberies at pharmacies on the rise in Milan, law enforcement agencies organize courses to help defend themselves.
The scene is always the same: The robber points his gun at the pharmacist, gets cash delivered with his face uncovered, despite the cameras, or enters his head with a helmet and a knife in his hand and the cash box is emptied. "We have become the ATM of crime" the pharmacists denounce, in Milan the police organize anti-robbery courses: the first advice is to keep little money and clear windows, to be more visible from the outside, avoid being heroes .
Robberies are on the rise but seventy percent of cases, last year, ended with the capture of bandits, also thanks to a unique software in Italy, studied by the Milan Police Headquarters, which isolates and crosses the data of the hits, often serial, and predicts the crimes.
"All this study also allows us to have a probabilistic indication of the future event, we look for analogies. If there is such a high percentage of possibility of being captured, all this can become an element of strong deterrence."
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In Milan the number of pharmacy robberies is growing. Sixteen in three months. Three people arrested: police forces and federfarma united to counter the increase in pharmacy robberies.
Only yesterday (05/12/2013) two Italians were arrested in Milan, accused of twenty-one robberies, nine of which occurred against pharmacies.
At the same time another arrest was made by the flying squad:
a forty-six year old Italian, held responsible for seven robberies, again against pharmacies, carried out in the month of September alone.
To counter the growing phenomenon, the commissioner of Milan Luigi Savina announced a series of meetings with pharmacists, safety pills, because never as in this case prevention is better than cure
Robbing a commercial activity will therefore be less and less convenient because, thanks also to the Keycrime program, the police have solved more than seventy-one percent of the robberies against pharmacies.
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The software was developed by an assistant chief of the Milan police: it exploits the clues left by serial criminals to predict their next move. In the Lombard capital it has almost doubled the success rate against some types of crime. Yet it is not used by other police headquarters, nor by other police forces.
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KeyCrime is the name of specialized software used by police that is able to predict the time and place of crimes. It has been tested in Milan where it has already led to the first arrests.
He was walking quietly along Viale Monte Rosa in Milan when ten plainclothes policemen swooped in on him. Amedeo Bruno, 35, had a toy gun and was at first amazed. Then he admitted that he was about to carry out a robbery, that very day...
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