Big Data to Combat Crime

Abstract

Big Data analysis and the prediction of future outcomes based on the results of analysis obtained have found applications in business, finance, healthcare, etc. Similarly Big Data also found its way to fight crime. Various Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA) throughout the world have incorporated the use of Big Data technology to gather, store and retrieve large amounts of data in order to draw out logical conclusions by analyzing them. In this paper, we discuss the various dimensions explored by crime analysts to build systems which not only gather structured and unstructured information but also give/trigger solutions for the same in real time.