SURVEIL AND PROTECT THE FUTURE OF INVESTIGATION /DZHQIRUFHPHQWFDQVWDUWXVLQJQH[W JHQHUDWLRQGLJLWDOLQWHOOLJHQFH WRVROYHFULPHVQRZ By Brendan Morgan aw enforcement agencies find themselves at a critical crossroads today, facing challenges from inside and outside their organizations. Market-ing research firm IDC recently released a white paper, “Policing 2025: Envisioning a New Framework for Investigations,” that sheds light on the issues in the current law enforcement landscape. One of the growing threats to civilians and law enforcement agencies alike is an increase in digitally mediated crimes. Law enforcement’s primary goal—to protect and serve—becomes harder to achieve as crimes are committed across an increasing number of devices. Investigators must find new ways to manage digital assets and gather action-able evidence from them. Digital intelligence (DI) is essential to this aspect of the investigation process. DI includes capturing and preserving data lawfully collected from various digital L sources and data types (devices and the cloud), processing and analyzing data to obtain actionable insights, and managing and safeguarding the data to run and pros-ecute investigations more efficiently while ensuring the privacy of witnesses or those unintentionally inculcated into cases. Law enforcement agencies are taking a technological approach to combat crime, which makes DI absolutely essential. However, this has resulted in a backlash against their perceived use of data and tech-nology. In addition, calls to fundamentally rethink the role of law enforcement in order to reestablish the public trust has placed enormous pressure on agencies to rethink their digital strategies. A data deluge COVID-19 accelerated the need for agencies to further embrace technology and transform the way they conduct digital investigations. Just as businesses were forced to conduct their work remotely, so, too, were law enforcement agencies. The pandemic and the resulting need to work remotely highlighted the urgency for agen-cies to get mobile solutions, remote work solutions, and virtual tools up and running. Additionally, it emphasized the need for law enforcement to be able to share and access data assets internationally and across state and national borders. Most agencies are facing a pressing need for more mature digital expertise in their organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic. A number of agencies have been unable to perform basic functions in the investigative process due to their lack of core infrastructure—the “tech-stack” foun-dations that allow them to share data safely and securely. Coupled with this is the data deluge agencies face. Investigations are becoming 16 SHERIFF & DEPUTY | MARCH/APRIL 2021
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