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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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 - ...

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 occur...

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

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...

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

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. ...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...