Articles Tagged with ''crime prevention''

Revolutionizing public safety and criminal justice through AI

September 24, 2024

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming public safety, criminal justice and security by fundamentally changing how crimes are committed, investigated and prevented.

The Security Podcasts

AMA: Retail Security Leader Edition — Hector Erazo

Security Staff

November 16, 2022

Retail security veteran Hector Erazo answers readers' risk management questions in the latest Ask Me Anything (AMA) episode from Security magazine.

Enterprise Services

Tackling theft within the cannabis supply chain

The multi-billion-dollar supply chain that makes up the legal cannabis market has an extensive and varied threat landscape that requires a comprehensive risk management program.

James Careless

October 7, 2022

The cannabis supply chain requires a comprehensive risk management program and a layered security approach when it comes to mitigating theft.

8.9 million criminal offenses reported to the FBI in 2020

December 7, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released detailed data on nearly 8.9 million criminal offenses reported via the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) in 2020.

Cultural property crime thrives throughout pandemic

November 11, 2021

Cultural property crime has continued unabated throughout the global COVID-19 pandemic and, in some cases, even surged to new heights, INTERPOL’s 2020 Assessing Crimes Against Cultural Property survey finds.

Berkeley city leaders turn to surveillance cameras for crime prevention

Maria Henriquez

October 22, 2021

City leaders in Berkeley, Calif. are turning to security surveillance to help mitigate violent gun crime.

Chicago expressways video surveillance license plate recognition cameras

Illinois State Police will install license-plate recognition cameras on expressways

August 24, 2021

As violence and shooting within Chicago-area expressways continues to increase year-over-year, the Governor, Illinois Department of Transportation, Chicago Department of Transportation and Illinois State Police will install 200 cameras in surrounding expressways to help solve crimes.

The fine line of security’s role as a deterrent: How people process and technology influence response

Tim Lozier

June 24, 2021

There has been a growing trend of retail location shoplifting. Combine this with new laws and pandemic-related demand, and the security officer’s role as a deterrent becomes more challenging than ever.

US and Australian law enforcement hack into app to read millions of encrypted messages to disrupt organized crime internationally

June 9, 2021

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Dutch National Police (Politie), and the Swedish Police Authority (Polisen), in cooperation with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and 16 other countries have carried out with the support of Europol one of the largest and most sophisticated law enforcement operations to date in the fight against encrypted criminal activities.

New report on Peak Hour Travel on public transportation to aid security planning

June 4, 2021

The authors of a new study by the Mineta Transportation Institute hope their findings will assist those responsible for security planning around travel on public transport. In their latest Peak Hour Study, Brian Michael Jenkins and Bruce R Butterworth analyzed more than 500 attacks on passenger rail and bus systems in modern developed countries between 1970 and 2020. They found that more than 60% of the attacks occurred in off-peak hours, as opposed to only 19% occurring during peak hours. However, the peak-hour attacks were 4.5 times more lethal. (The timing of the remaining attacks is unknown so they could not make a determination.)

Retail security professionals are facing an increasingly complex array of security challenges — everything from organized retail crime to evolving cyber-physical threats and public safety concerns.