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San Francisco Police Department: Third-party Investigative Platforms

Agency San Francisco Police Department
Location San Francisco, CA
Technology Third-party Investigative Platforms
Vendor Thomson Reuters

The San Francisco Police Department transitioned from LexisNexis’ LexisNexis Accurint Virtual Crime Center investigative platform to Thomson Reuter’s CLEAR in 2023.

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Third-Party Investigative Platforms are cloud-based software systems that law enforcement agencies subscribe to in order to access, share, mine, and analyze various sources of investigative data. Some of the data the agencies upload themselves, but the systems also provide access to data from other law enforcement, as well as from commercial sources and data brokers. Many products offer AI features, such as pattern identification, face recognition, and predictive analytics. Some agencies employ multiple TPIPs.