"The Real Time Crime Center has proven to be an invaluable crime-fighting tool," said Mayor Bloomberg. "The expansion of the Center to include additional serious crimes ensures that our detectives have the most sophisticated resources at their disposal to stop crimes before they become trends and catch criminals before they strike again. In conjunction with other police initiatives including Operation Impact, the Center has been a critical tool for the NYPD in ensuring that New York remains the nation's safest big city."
"We want to use every advantage technology has to offer in suppressing crime," said Police Commissioner Kelly. "With the Real Time Crime Center, our detectives have a new partner in crime fighting."
The expansion of the Real Time Crime Center also includes three other major steps: the addition of all NYPD arrest records dating back to 1995, new search capacities that combine multiple keyword and narrative text requests, and new visualization technology for graphical reporting of criminal incidents including linking of descriptive details associated with the suspect and incident location. In addition, 175 new wireless laptops will allow detectives remote access to this warehouse of invaluable data as they investigate crimes throughout the five boroughs.
The Center also uses satellite imaging and sophisticated mapping of the city precinct-by-precinct. Its Link Analysis Capacity can track suspects to all of their known addresses and point detectives to the locations where they are most likely to flee. The Center will house a massive data warehouse of billions of records including:
- More than 120 million New York City criminal and arrests complaints and 911 call records dating back to 1995
- More than 5 million New York State criminal records, parole and probation files
- More than 31 million national crime records
- More than 35 billion public records.
