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New Cognyte Survey: AI Is Becoming Essential for Law Enforcement Investigations
Survey highlights unstructured data as a key challenge, with data analytics and AI emerging as a strategic long-term investment priority for law enforcement
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nSurvey highlights unstructured data as a key challenge, with data analytics and AI emerging as a strategic long-term investment priority for law enforcement agencies\n\n\n HERZLIYA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nCognyte Software Ltd. (NASDAQ: CGNT), a global leader in investigative analytics software, released the results of a survey on data analytics usage trends within law enforcement agencies (LEAs) worldwide, including federal and state police, financial intelligence units (FIUs), border police and others.\n\n\nLEAs have a common goal to successfully address criminal threats, save lives and prevent financial damage by improving the speed, accuracy and success of investigations.\n\n\nKey takeaways from the 2024 Data Analytics for Law Enforcement Survey:\n\n\n\nArtificial intelligence (AI) is becoming crucial for LEA investigations\n\n\n\nUnstructured data is one of the top technological challenges for LEA investigations\n\n\n\nMost LEAs are still using multiple, disconnected solutions to analyze their data\n\n\n\nMost LEAs plan to modernize their existing data analytics solution\n\n\n\nThe average LEA investment in data analytics is expected to grow substantially in the next few years\n\n\n\nRegarding AI, 99 percent of respondents consider AI to be beneficial for law enforcement data analysis, and 85 percent believe that AI is either critical or very important to the future of law enforcement investigations. The most important AI-powered capabilities for 2024 include pattern recognition (54 percent), image analysis (53 percent) and risk assessment (49 percent).\n\n\nThe report may be valuable for decision-makers in law enforcement and hands-on LEA professionals, including analysts, investigators and detectives. It also provides beneficial insights to senior technical/IT stakeholders responsible for sourcing, implementing and integrating data analytics tools, while ensuring regulatory compliance.\n\n\nSurvey Methodology \nGiven that the world is rapidly changing due to AI’s emergence and geopolitical activity, the survey set out to validate working assumptions regarding the challenges faced by LEA stakeholders around data analytics, as well as to learn more about current priorities and future needs and plans for dealing with the challenges.\n\n\nThe survey was administered online by Global Surveyz Research, an independent globa...