Advanced analytics is playing an increasing role in the cycle of the law enforcement community’s investigation, prevention of future crime and collation of evidence against criminals. ‘What used to take weeks for highly skilled data scientists to sift through can now be crunched in minutes by non-technical law enforcement using software tools that dramatically simplify the ability to manipulate vast amounts of unstructured data’, according to Inc Magazine. For instance, law enforcement officers in the U.S. are using Tweets and Facebook feeds to predict criminal activity or ‘hotspots’, helping to stop crime before it even occurs.

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