Overview

August 14

Siloed IT systems can’t provide the big-picture insights city and public safety leaders need to ensure the highest levels of public safety. To deliver the most comprehensive and proactive protection, public safety agencies need to aggregate and analyze data from multiple systems.

Join us August 14 at 11:00am PT/2:00pm ET to hear how the city of Chicago, the second largest police department in the United States, leveraged an integrated Strategic Decision Support Center to aggregate public safety data and reduce overall violent crime by 24 percent and shootings by 70 percent.
You’ll hear:
- How a Strategic Decision Support Center can aggregate and analyze data from multiple systems — computer-aided dispatch, video surveillance, automatic license plate recognition, gunshot detection, facial recognition, etc. — to facilitate faster decision-making and reduce crime.
- How leveraging GIS location and visual information can help responders share information instantly with field personnel to enable them to work more effectively and safely,
- How a Strategic Decision Support Center can provide public safety agencies a better way to use existing intelligence scattered across multiple departments.

Speakers

Jonathan Lewin

Chief, Bureau of Technical Services, Chicago Police Department

Jonathan Lewin started as a Chicago beat cop in 1991, but within a year, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) needed someone to help initiate community policing. Lewin, who had worked with computers in college, developed software that would convert mainframe data into a crime mapping program. Today Chief Lewin manages the Bureau of Technical Services. The Bureau is responsible for coordinating services and activities related to information systems, technology, and program development; receiving, storing, and disposing of inventoried property; and the management of Department records and police reports. Additionally, the bureau is responsible for coordinating and directing Department activities which specifically relate to facilities management; and various general support functions.

Bob Carter

Commercial Head of Genetec's City Practice

Bob Carter is Commercial Head of Genetec’s City Practice for the United States. This practice is dedicated to working with our nation’s growing population centers to address public safety, security and operational challenges using Genetec’s Strategic Decision Support System - Citigraf - and a portfolio of government, law enforcement, traffic, transit, campus and digital evidence management solutions. Bob has spent more than a decade working with police departments, city leaders and community organizations to implement technology programs that are both effective and sustainable. A passionate evangelist for building public and private partnerships, Bob leads a team who are working with cities to build programs that strengthen community, livability and inclusivity as well as ensure that cities are resilient, connected and are ones that help city leaders to protect, understand, and enhance the world around them.

Otto Doll

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government – Moderator

As the Minneapolis CIO for seven-plus years, Mr. Doll was responsible for all City IT services. Formerly South Dakota's CIO for 15 years with responsibility for all state government computing, telecommunications, state radio, and public broadcasting. While with IT research firms, Mr. Doll has advised Fortune 1000, Federal, State, and Local Government CIOs on information technology assessment and alignment to business needs. He has served as a Director with the United States General Services Administration, developing information technology strategic plans and oversight policy. Mr. Doll received his Computer Science degree from Virginia Tech and is a Senior Executive Fellow of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is a past President of NASCIO — a national organization of state CIOs. He also is a past President of the Metropolitan Information Exchange (MIX) — a national organization of city and county CIOs. Mr. Doll was named to Government Technology's Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers.

Webinar

How Chicago Integrated Data and Reduced Crime by 24 Percent