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Sky TG24: Progress Innovaction – How did Milan Police reduce robberies by 77%?

19 February 2022

SKY TG24: 77% FEWER ROBBERIES IN MILAN - HOW DID THEY DO IT? Sky TG24's Helga Cossu interviewed Mario Venturi, KeyCrime's President and Founder on the program Progress: Innovaction, delving into how Milan's police have been so successful, aided by their use of the KeyCrime #delia® software, how the idea came t...

Success for the police in their fight against robberies in Milan and Lodi

3 February 2022

SUCCESS FOR THE POLICE in their fight against robberies. For the Police, the successes related to the use of the application "KeyCrime delia®" in the fight against robberies are growing. "... According to the Chief of Police, the numbers confirm that the work carried out by the Police is effective" explains Presi...

Fighting sexual molestation on buses: Turin uses AI to identify serial molesters

31 January 2022

Violence against women is not acceptable at any level nor at any latitude; fighting it must be a daily priority for all of us. Even today it has the dimensions of a global pandemic: more than a billion women worldwide, or one in three women, have suffered it (source: UN). But this is only a part of the picture, wh...

Milan police use KeyCrime delia(R) to help end “retrò” crime series

4 January 2022

A robber with a taste for antique weaponry was arrested in Milan after a robbery in Via Millelire. The police were forewarned and already on the scene when the 52 year old robber struck thanks to the Police's VI Mobile Squad and a little help from the software KeyCrime delia®. With a hoodie and a mask, the 52 yea...

Internet Governance Forum: The road to great Crime Analysis is paved with analyzable data!

10 December 2021

KeyCrime's Brad Hathaway took a practical approach to #ResponsibleAI in his talk on December 10th, 2021 at the Internet Governance Forum Poland's International Security & Digital Council remote hub in Rome. The exchange with Avv. Benvegnù, especially during the question and answer at the end was thought provoking...

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COISP: KeyCrime presents “Digital Transformation: a proactive approach to investigations”

12 November 2021

KeyCrime is proud to announce that our own Brad Hathaway delivered a preview of the soon to be published article “Digital Transformation: a proactive approach to investigations” on November 12th at the 8th annual congress of COISP – Coordinamento per L’Indipendenza Sindacale delle forze di Polizia

Accenture and KeyCrime announce collaboration on next generation digital marketing solution

4 November 2021

KeyCrime is proud to have been identified by Accenture as an innovative enterprise with great future prospects. This has led to collaboration for implementing a next level digital system for marketing that will take KeyCrime even further along its path. The prospects for a long term collaboration are being conside...

KeyCrime announces development of IBM i2 connector for delia® Suite

19 October 2021

Another step ahead for KeyCrime and Law Enforcement! KeyCrime has just “broken ground” on the development of a connector for viewing KeyCrime delia® Suite data in IBM’s i2 platform. This is groundbreaking in more ways than one – KeyCrime’s unique approach to Data Transformation for Law Enforcement agenc...

Rai Scuola “STEM” – Crimine features KeyCrime delia® Suite

30 September 2021

How do you preserve the know-how and analytical capabilities of investigators, transforming them into shared assets for future investigations? After the criminal investigation wraps up, what are the advantages for prosecutors when investigators have used analytical techniques and technologies to establish that the...

PSS signs as KeyCrime delia® Suite distributor and services partner for Spain

27 September 2021

KeyCrime is excited to announce the renewal of the KeyCrime delia® distribution contract with PSS in Spain. We are very much looking forward to continuing our collaboration with PSS, well known in Spain, Portugal and South America for helping their customers implement the best possible solutions for their needs w...

KeyCrime delia helps investigators identify and stop the “white bag” robbers

24 September 2021

KeyCrime delia® helps stop serial robbers in Milan. For anyone that knows the KeyCrime story, this isn’t news at all of course, but a few times a year, the results of our work makes the news. Today was one of those days. The armed criminal group nicknamed “White Bag” had two members apprehended today by the...

Probable Causation Podcast with Giovanni Mastrobuoni on KeyCrime delia®

31 August 2021

We were thrilled when Jennifer Doleac’s Probable Causation podcast interviewed Professor Giovanni Mastrobuoni at the end of August because many of the conclusions they reached have profound implications for the world of policing and investigators' adoption of technology. One in particular is something we’ve be...

La Repubblica: Serial robber caught: he used a prop gun to scare store clerks

15 April 2021

A 52-year-old laborer was arrested by the Milan Police on charges of robbing a clothing store in the ‘Coccinelle’ franchise in Corso Genova in Milan. The man, wearing a mask, hat and sunglasses, frightened the saleswoman with a prop gun and stole 200 euros from the cash register, before leaving. Stationed outs...

Il Fatto Quotidiano – The robber enters the pharmacy but is blocked and arrested by the agents stationed

15 November 2020

A rank-and-file officer in the Milan Police Department created a computer program called KeyCrime that has revolutionised how the city catches robbers. When Mario Venturi was assigned to the property division in 2004, his team worked without the help of computers. Venturi thought there was a better way and enliste...

KeyCrime video series Part 5 – Our innovative approach to digital transformation

28 January 2020

Our innovative approach to digital transformation for the crime investigation life cycle for our law enforcement customers is well, it's very innovative. It's new! It's something that it's little bit difficult to explain! That's! Why we've put together this but video help you understand better what it is we do why...

KeyCrime video series Part 4 – Location adaptability through AI & ML

27 January 2020

Every location is different. Typical criminal behavior and characteristics in, say, Bogota, Columbia will be quite different from those in Boston, Massachusetts in the USA or Milan in Italy Targets will be different as well as timing and physical characteristics. These differences are at the root of why here at ...

KeyCrime video series Part 3 – Crime Analysis Software focused on crime series

26 January 2020

“Predictive Crime Analysis” is a new term coined by KeyCrime. KeyCrime’s direct implementation of Crime Analysis focuses on crime series. It is made more accurate by AI and Machine Learning techniques. This is what makes it possible for our delia software to not only help police identify crime series but als...

KeyCrime video series Part 2 – Rebranding: we have grown far beyond the one product company

25 January 2020

KeyCrime has grown far beyond the one product company that we were at the outset. We’ve assembled a team of experienced police personnel, enterprise software sales experts and a robust team of developers and data scientists with a built-out product already in-hand and the ideas and energy necessary to continue b...

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

24 January 2020

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 perha...

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

20 November 2019

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 ...

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

19 June 2019

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 o...

Criminal System and Artifical Intelligence: Many hopes and some misunderstandings

19 June 2019

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 - ...

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

18 May 2019

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 occur...

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

21 November 2018

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 o...

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

7 June 2018

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 ac...

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

25 May 2018

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�...

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

11 April 2018

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 algor...

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

29 March 2018

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 predictiv...

Mediaset – Tutta Colpa di Darwin: The Milan police headquarters deals with the analysis of crimes

18 December 2017

We are Inside the analysis and planning office of the Milan police headquarters which deals with the analysis of crimes. This is done through an innovative tool, which is the KeyCrime software, which allows to fight crime more effectively. This idea was born several years ago, in a particular historical moment, Mi...

HBO Vice – The Milan police have a high-tech solution to catch robbers

16 November 2017

A rank-and-file officer in the Milan Police Department created a computer program called KeyCrime that has revolutionised how the city catches robbers. When Mario Venturi was assigned to the property division in 2004, his team worked without the help of computers. Venturi thought there was a better way and enliste...

TG5 – Prevent crimes before they happen: A computer program already does something similar

12 March 2017

Prevent Crimes Before They Happen: Science fiction, maybe yes, but there is a computer program that already does something similar. As in Minorty Report, imagine a criminal who is stopped even before committing the crime, there is an algorithm that makes science fiction a possibility of the present: The KeyCrime, ...

RETE SEI: Interview with italian Deputy Police Chief @Chieti, Law Enforcement agencies Conference

29 October 2016

In Chieti, this morning, a conference was held for all law enforcement agencies in which the Deputy Chief of Police Luigi Savina took part, at the center of attention a software programmed to predict the most common crimes, a tool for technological innovation that the forces of law and order bring fully into their...

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Quotidiano.net: KeyCrime, the anti-robbery algorithm that helps catch robbers

2 October 2016

Through its proprietary algorithms, KeyCrime delia® Suite searches for correlations between a new crime and the many criminal events in its database, assigning a score for each comparison: the higher the score, the more likely it is that the crimes were part of the same series. Investigators then analyze the beha...

Focus: The robo-policeman is on patrol with KeyCrime delia®

30 September 2015

From software that predicts crimes to drones. Technology promises more safety. But does it threaten our privacy? The policeman stops the suspect, points the gun, asks to raise their hands. The boy refuses. And, when he reaches into his bag, the officer chills him, mistakenly thinking he is about to take a weapon. ...

FutureMag – The KeyCrime software reduced the number of robberies in Milan by over 30%

26 September 2015

We are in Milan, the capital of luxury and a favorite place for robbers. To track them down, the police now have a brand new KeyCrime software that allows, for example, an arrest in the pharmacy, where the robber worked for four months according to the same operating procedure, always in the same area. It is the s...

SKY TG24: The “program to prevent robberies” is not an American fictional idea. In Milan, it’s real.

8 March 2015

Who knows if robbed thieves and scammers will ever be caught planning a robbery, for sure now they risk being caught a moment later with the loot in hand, before they manage to get in the car and escape. They already call it a "program to prevent robberies" and it is not an American fictional idea, an official of ...

Wired: CAUGHT! Catching criminals by identifying and analyzing crime series.

28 December 2014

Predict robberies? At the police headquarters in Milan they do it with Keycrime, the algorithm developed by a policeman inspired by Sherlock Holmes. In Italy he hasn't found investments and now the United States could steal it from us. On the computer screen the map of Milan is marked by some red dots: a line conn...

BitmatTV – The Milan police use a software to prevent robberies and identify criminals

10 December 2014

"The software for the analysis of criminal events KeyCrime is in experimental use at the Milan police headquarters, which has decided to adopt it to combat the phenomenon of robberies perpetrated in the commercial and credit institutions sector. The results we have kept are more than satisfactory: There are six hu...

RTL.de – The computer program “Keycrime” stops criminals before they are committed

23 August 2014

Five times the resolution rate for robberies Catch serial offenders in the act - or know beforehand where they will strike next and then wait for them on the spot. The dream of many investigators seems to be coming true, at least in Milan. Because there a policeman spent years developing a computer program that c...

Superquark – The study of seriality allows to have forecasting capabilities related to its future events

7 August 2014

Milan and its province an area of 1,500 square kilometers inhabited by almost 4 million people. Confused among these citizens who hurry to the workplace, the perpetrators of the more than 2000 robberies carried out every year also wander undisturbed. Covered face and gun in hand, the criminals carry out from...

La Repubblica: Milan, police catch the robber as he leaves the pharmacy – arrest video

8 February 2014

He robbed the same pharmacy in Milan three times in a month, always on Fridays and always between 2:00 and 2.30 PM. And these habits were the downfall for Paolo Davide Simula, a 26-year-old convict, arrested by the officers of the Scalo Romana police station at the end of the last robbery at his "usual" pharmacy i...

TG1 – Robberies at pharmacies. Law enforcement agencies organize courses to help defend themselves.

14 January 2014

Robberies at pharmacies on the rise in Milan, law enforcement agencies organize courses to help defend themselves. The scene is always the same: The robber points his gun at the pharmacist, gets cash delivered with his face uncovered, despite the cameras, or enters his head with a helmet and a knife in his hand an...

TG1 – Milan’s Police Comissioner announced a series of meetings with pharmacists

6 December 2013

In Milan the number of pharmacy robberies is growing. Sixteen in three months. Three people arrested: police forces and federfarma united to counter the increase in pharmacy robberies. Only yesterday (05/12/2013) two Italians were arrested in Milan, accused of twenty-one robberies, nine of which occurred against p...

Panorama: Key crime – The algorithm that predicts where and when robberies will take place

4 September 2013

The software was developed by an assistant chief of the Milan police: it exploits the clues left by serial criminals to predict their next move. In the Lombard capital it has almost doubled the success rate against some types of crime. Yet it is not used by other police headquarters, nor by other police forces.

L’Espresso: Special Agent Key Crime – a software program in Milan that has led to its first arrests

9 October 2008

KeyCrime is the name of specialized software used by police that is able to predict the time and place of crimes. It has been tested in Milan where it has already led to the first arrests. He was walking quietly along Viale Monte Rosa in Milan when ten plainclothes policemen swooped in on him. Amedeo Bruno, 35, ha...

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