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KeyCrime video series Part 1 – Company presentation, an innovative startup with a focus on social impact

KeyCrime is an innovative startup with a focus on social impact. We work in the public security sector in the area of “Predictive Crime Analysis” Schopenhauer once said:”Health is not everything, but without health, everything is nothing” We believe that a sense of security and safety is a key component and perhaps even the fundamental requirement for citizens to be happy. Much as health for the individual, security and safety are for the collective. Our goal as a company is to reduce crime and increase safety and security. Our founder, Mario Venturi, worked as a policeman for 30 years in the Polizia di Stato in Italy where he saw the power of applying data analysis to classical investigative techniques and decided to take action. We developed the software Delia to embody this approach and help police perform “predictive crime analysis” Our focus is on crime series targeting those habitual offenders that commit the majority of crimes and to reduce the series to the minimum possible number We believe this is a unique approach in the sector. We’ve enriched the technique through the addition of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning which takes the results to another level with respect to other approaches. We’re at the point where we can make specific recommendations for officers with respect to a crime series leading to significant impacts in prevention, repression and, perhaps most significantly, in bringing criminals to justice through the documentation we’re able to provide directly from the system to prosecutors. We’ve had independent researchers review the data from the use of our software in Milan and the results are clear: KeyCrime’s delia software helps police reduce crime by targeting repeat offenders through the identification of crime series. You can find additional information on our web site and our LinkedIn page including details of the academic study. Thank you very much

RAI GR Parlamento – Italy that works: railway and road safety. Mario Venturi’s story

This is Mario Ventury’s story. He’s a former cop who created crime analysis software. But how did it come to all this?
After winning the competition to join the police, he ran in 1987, then Mario was assigned to the Milanese flying team where he worked for five years. This was his second family. From the steering wheels, then, he arrived at the Special Operations General Investigations Division (DIGOS), where he remained for nine years, most of which in the anti-terrorism section and then had important experience in the general investigative sector. then he had finished his career in the anti-robbery section of the mobile team and now he is CEO of an innovative start-up that manages the development of the computer application, a software that allows the analysis of crimes. The mission of this reality is to support and help the police forces around the world in their activities to fight crime. How the KeyCrime software was invented and developed, Mario Venturi explains in this podcast.

A glimpse of the (hopefully near-term) future: KeyCrime delia® crime analysis suite

An article by Cesare Parodi and Valentina Sellaroli, reported in Contemporary Criminal Law (6/2019), illustrates its possibilities and legal implications. In fact, predictive software has long been used in various cities around the world. Each has peculiar characteristics, but there is a common trend: they focus on a purely statistical analysis, aimed at indicating the place and time when, most likely, a crime may occur. KeyCrime’s delia® suite, instead of relying on mere statistical analysis and broad-based data collection, evaluates the risk of repeat offenses within a specific crime series based on direct and objective data from that series.

Criminal System and Artifical Intelligence: Many hopes and some misunderstandings

The topic of artificial intelligence is among those that – for some years now – have monopolized attention, arousing hopes and questions from a sociological, scientific, economic and legal point of view. With regard to the latter aspect, there is a need to clarify in what terms the phenomenon must be framed and – above all – within what limits forms of use of artificial intelligence can enter the investigative, cognitive and evaluative heritage of the criminal system. An answer to these questions could make it possible to combine the enormous potential of the sector with the need for efficiency in the prevention and repression of various criminal forms, while at the same time ensuring full protection for the guarantees of individual associates.

Wired: The Italian software that changed the world of predictive policing

What is the difference between KeyCrime and other predictive police software? The idea was born by analyzing, for work, a mountain of files related to the various crimes, in which the data were collected summarily but still contained information that would allow us to hypothesize behind which crimes, even if occurred in different times and places, there was the same hand”, tells the founder of KeyCrime.

IBM Think – Innovation and exponential technologies: Mario Venturi’s speech

At the event organized by IBM, Mario is invited to tell his story:

“Ten years ago I was a policeman. I found myself at the Milan police station in a room with a desk full of files concerning criminal events committed in the city of Milan . These files were bright, there were many in Milan in 2008. There is talk of about seven hundred robberies, perpetrated solely for commercial activities. It was difficult for us employees of the State Police to carry out investigative activities aimed at preventing this type of phenomenon in a manner From there I was born the idea, the thought, the curiosity to understand if it was possible to create an IT tool, which could support our activity, in the investigative activity. This is how this tool was born, which begins its operation in ‘year two thousand and eight, when I propose it to the Milan police headquarters after working on it for three years, as a tool for the analysis of criminal events and as predictive software or. KeyCrime is a tool that, through the analysis of the elements collected in the past, has forecasting capabilities on what could happen in the future. In ten years we have managed to reduce the number of criminal events in Milan, as regards robberies perpetrated in the commercial sector, by 58%. After this first experimentation, which clearly gave a good result, we moved on to the more complex analysis of the robberies carried out in the banking sector. very important we have reduced the robbery by eighty two percent months of pivotal steps of this path in two thousand seventeen we create a skipped StartUp that aims to bring to reengineering first of all this project which up to that moment was to be considered a prototype and aims, in fact , to bring this tool to the benefit of the global community. Our mission is to support the police forces around the world in ensuring order, public safety in the cities where we live. “

#ThinkMilano 2018: IBM in 300 seconds with Mario Venturi, CEO of KeyCrime

KeyCrime, the software, was born fourteen years ago within the state police. Mario Venturi is a former employee of the state police who during his activity found himself analyzing a lot of information that was contained in the complaints, and therefore referred to criminal events.

It is precisely by doing this activity that we realized that inside there were elements that, if well collected and cataloged, could provide important ideas for investigations.

Hence the idea of ​​creating an application, within which to enter this information to be able to predict the persistence of a criminal fact. Said like this, it looks like a science fiction film, in reality it is not, because an application that has already been tested in the state police for a decade, KeyCrime, is able to compare the actions of crimes, the means and the behaviors. with the information that is present within the crimes archived, and goes to detect the elements that characterized the criminal actions, recognizing the same hand with facts that occurred in different times and places. In this way it is possible to isolate serious criminals, through the study of man, in criminal action.

Startupbusiness.it: Predictive analytics, Oltre Venture invests in KeyCrime

The world of predictive software is evolving rapidly and as a result it is becoming more and more reliable and even more attractive to the world of venture capital. And because applying technology to policing makes the world better for citizens, KeyCrime attracted the attention of the noted ‘social innovation’ venture capital firm, Oltre Venture. (Article in Italian)

Startupmagazine.it: When a police officer becomes a startupper – the KeyCrime story

Mario Venturi, assistant chief of the Milan police headquarters, invented the KeyCrime program 14 years ago, an example of a successful merger between computer science and investigation that has made it possible to significantly reduce the number of robberies in the city. KeyCrime is an advanced system whose algorithm revolves around the concept of crime series, because every robbery has a sort of “fingerprint”, that is to say the repetition of methods, timing and mistakes.

RTS.ch – When police predict crimes This science fiction scenario is already a reality in Milan

Can we imagine one day that a thief, a rapist or any other criminal is arrested before he even commits his crime? This science fiction scenario is already a reality in the cantons of Zurich and Aargau, but also in Milan or in the United States. Predicting the location and date of the next crime is called predictive policing. This new method is already used daily to stop a series of crimes. A simple computer, a machine that calculates a probability for a given area and time, allows the police to anticipate theft even before it is committed.