Data-Informed Community Engagement Prioritize and solve crime problems with guidance from community partners, just like the nationally-recognized Newark Public Safety Collaborative (NPSC) does in Newark, NJ. They use Simsi’s RTMDx™ software to diagnose crime patterns and connect geographic features with … Read More
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What is Risk Terrain Modeling?
What is Risk Terrain Modeling Risk terrain modeling (RTM) is risk assessment for places. It’s a data analysis technique. And, it’s a diagnostic tool. When used for crime analysis, RTM identifies environmental conditions that contribute to crime problems. Different crime … Read More
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Beyond Security: A Framework for Capturing Risk Remedies in DICE™
The data-informed and community-engaged process of DICE™ helps communities address crime by identifying environmental and social factors that make certain locations vulnerable. Too often, the default response is to increase security—adding police patrols, cameras, or private security—but these measures don’t … Read More
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Data-driven Procedural Justice
Traffic stops by police officers are the most common way the public encounters law enforcement. Nearly 85% of all police-initiated interactions with people in their jurisdictions occur in this way. Enhancing this type of interaction may be the single most … Read More
Make the Most of Simsi Mobile
The Simsi Mobile App extends Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) intel into the field, in the palm of your hand. It’s a powerful way to turn your analyses into action. RTM supports many methods of crime prevention, such as directed patrols … Read More
Crime Prevention Evidence
Simsi analytics show you which settings attract criminal behavior in order to disrupt opportunities for crime by focusing on the environment. Simsi’s RTMDx SaaS platform meets community expectations for crime prevention and the operational needs of police at all levels of government … Read More
Real-Time Crime & Fusion Centers
Police are under pressure to prevent crime without focusing on people. They need the tools to effectively focus on places instead. The solution is Simsi analytics that tell you which settings attract criminal behavior in order to disrupt opportunities for … Read More
Dispatch, Comms & First Responder Safety
Knowledge about risky places can be used by dispatch and communications professionals to assess and manage personal injury risks to first responders at any address throughout a jurisdiction. Make real-time risk assessments on a call-by-call basis to optimize resources and … Read More
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)
Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) analysis brings the crime and land-use components of CPTED together with an empirical twist. Physical landscapes consciously and unconsciously influence human behaviors. Altering the physical design of landscapes is a main goal of CPTED. RTM identifies … Read More
Business, Security and Asset Protection
Expert opinions are more valuable when forged from defensible analytics. Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) analysis is peer-reviewed and scientifically proven to yield actionable insights for crime risk assessments and forecasting. RTM connects crime issues with environmental features and delivers reports that … Read More