Research Summaries

Back Social Network Analysis (SNA) for Law Enforcement (LE)

Fiscal Year 2020
Division Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department Defense Analysis
Investigator(s) Everton, Sean F.
Sponsor Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (DoD)
Summary The Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD), through the Domestic Preparedness Support Initiative (DPSI), identified a significant gap in the first responder community in terms of understanding networks. Consequently, OSD-DPSI asked the CORE Lab to provide technical assistance to the first responder community, specifically criminal justice agencies, about SNA. This project's first phase began in July 2014 and through the last five years, OSD and the CORE Lab have worked with over a dozen law enforcement agencies to institutionalize SNA into their normal analytic practices as well as host an annual "SNA for Law Enforcement" symposium to introduce the broader law enforcement community to SNA. FY20 will focus on solidifying successes from the previous years and institutionalizing SNA in law enforcement.
Keywords Dark Networks First Responder Law Enforcement Network Analysis Network Code SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS code book criminal networks network advesaries understanding networks
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