Accelerate Criminal Investigations

The way that extremist and terrorist groups use the online world for recruiting, networking, and advancing their ideologies is by now well-known. In fact, these activities require such groups to make much of their information publicly accessible, with low privacy settings. The Voyager Platform gives counter-terrorism investigators powerful tools for discovering, visualizing, and charting online extremist activity, from members to supporters to financers.

Both drug and human trafficking invariably involve networks of individuals acting in concert. Investigators use Voyager to help identify and chart the members and associates of these criminal networks. Its ability to make geographic connections visible can also be useful in trafficking investigations, and its tools for preserving captured data mean that evidence is not lost if the public data is subsequently scrubbed or masked.

Find and identify members of criminal organizations and gain insights into their activities and locations. The Voyager platform helps to piece together an organization’s structure makes it easier to identify its leaders, greatly increasing the chances of dismantling the entire enterprise. The tool’s ability to reveal indirect relationships can be especially useful in finding unknown members who may be taking steps to conceal their public footprint. Conversely, in cases where gang members are prone to broadcast their activities in order to gain stature.

When first responders’ lives are on the line, it’s critical to get them as much information as possible, as quickly as you can. Real-time crime centers provide almost instant access to the full range of structured databases available to law enforcement. Voyager adds a crucial missing piece: near real-time access to the huge mass of unstructured open source data and the information, patterns, and insights it can contain.