Criminal Justice and Public Safety

By first integrating the massive amounts of information housed in multiple disparate systems, SAS provides data-driven insight to help guide decision making. SAS advanced analytics facilitate the prevention of crime through the detection and anticipation of criminal activities, traffic crashes and other threats. Needed information is presented in a meaningful format for decision makers – from executives to line officers, allowing police departments and other public safety practitioners to establish a robust, information-led framework that supports innovative efforts to reduce crime and increase public safety:

• Streamline information management and provide a foundation for sharing knowledge throughout the criminal justice system. By seamlessly integrating all data, the agency gains one single version of the truth.
• Assess risks and make the right decisions at every step based on analysis. By applying analytics to forge an information-led strategy, criminal justice leaders can make decisions based on solid, robust data and allocate resources effectively to guide prevention, intervention and/or suppression tactics.
• Understand how and when workforce trends affect your organization and proactively manage organizational risk by understanding skill shortages. By understanding staff skill sets and cross-referencing those with effective information management, you can put the right people with the right skills in the right place at the right time.
• Articulate a clear mission, strategy and a set of performance measures that incorporates all critical success factors of your organization to ensure responsibilities are being fulfilled. With one system for strategic decision making, program performance can easily be measured and demonstrated in an accountable and transparent manner.

• Manage a deluge of new data. Using SAS software's world-class data management capabilities, you can access and use data from any system while ensuring data quality and managing security and administration at all levels. Share information at all levels of government to reframe service models, reduce costs, improve operations and benefit the community with strategic certainty.
• Transform data into practical information. Using SAS software's unsurpassed predictive analytics capabilities, you can capture, analyze and simulate risks for more targeted and productive investigations; strategically allocate and supervise community corrections caseloads; drive toward a crime prevention mission; optimize people, programs and technology to support your agency's mission; and make sound decisions based on accurate data and information to track progress and measure success.
• Make business intelligence a part of every decision. SAS software's Web-based reporting gives every decision maker, at every level across your organization, access to self-service data query and reporting capabilities, allowing your agency to increase access to more accurate and real-time information in the field, where it is most needed.