Case Study: National Repository of Criminal Justice enhances law enforcement investigations with Tom Sawyer Software

Enhancing Law Enforcement Investigations Building a National Repository of Criminal Justice Records

The National Repository of Criminal Justice, representing the FBI, faced a significant challenge in combating crime due to data silos. With over 18,000 independent police agencies using disparate systems, sharing data across jurisdictions was difficult, hampering investigations and obscuring the full picture of criminal networks. To address this, the FBI sought the expertise of Tom Sawyer Software and its product, Tom Sawyer Perspectives.

Tom Sawyer Software implemented its graph visualization and analysis platform to form the backbone of the FBI's National Data Exchange (N-DEx). This solution enables law enforcement agencies to search, link, and analyze information across jurisdictional boundaries, revealing hidden relationships between people, places, and events. The result is a powerful national repository that allows investigators to efficiently connect related crimes, visualize complex criminal networks, and solve cases that would otherwise remain siloed.