Case Study: Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office achieves faster inmate bookings and 20% fewer traffic accidents with Information Builders' Law Enforcement Analytics

The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office Gets ARMED With WebFOCUS

Information Builders, a leader in data integration, quality and analytics, helped the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) solve a critical information problem: disparate, siloed justice systems forced staff to spend hundreds of hours each month manually compiling inconsistent data, undermining decision-making for crime fighting, traffic safety, budgeting and resource allocation across jurisdictions.

Using its WebFOCUS Law Enforcement Analytics suite—including iWay Data Migrator and Service Manager, WebFOCUS Magnify, and professional services—Information Builders built ARMED, a centralized, real-time platform with dashboards, interactive maps and automated alerts. The solution improved cross-agency data sharing and operational visibility, paid for itself within a year (eliminating roughly $1.2M in annual manual data costs), sped up jail bookings, and helped reduce traffic accidents by about 20% while enabling faster, more informed deployments and planning.

Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office

David A. Clarke

Division Commander