Track the community engagement, violence prevention, directed patrols, problem-solving, partnership efforts, proactive enforcement, place-based work, crime preventionyou do in public safety and policing.
The work that prevents the next incident is the hardest to see. Simsi makes it visible: what your team did at each priority place, who helped, and whether it worked.
Start with the free DICE™ eBook: a practical field guide to place-based prevention.
For public-safety leadership
You already measure response. Prevention deserves the same scoreboard.
Every emergency call is harm that already happened, and responding to it is the most expensive thing a budget does. Prevention works the other way: each place your team fixes removes calls before they start. But that work usually goes unrecorded, so it never reaches the budget conversation.
Simsi turns that work into a record: the evidence that justifies budgets, answers leadership on what is working, and shows the return on every prevention dollar.
It also answers the harder question. When prevention work goes unseen, the public fills the gap with assumptions about what officers do. A clear record replaces that guesswork with something you can show.
CAD / 911
Emergency response
Records what happened after the call came in.
ActionHub
Planned prevention
Records the interventions and community engagement that stop the next call.
A record the public can see
Show the community the prevention work behind the policing, before assumptions fill the gap.
Lower cost of harm
Preventing an incident costs a fraction of responding to one.
Defensible budgets
Turn prevention activity into evidence leadership can stand behind.
A different kind of public safety technology
Most public-safety tech helps teams respond faster. Simsi helps them prevent more.
CAD systems, body cameras, and records tools matter. They usually activate after harm. Simsi works earlier: it finds the place conditions generating risk and helps teams change them before incidents keep repeating.
The point is simple: crime is not random. Change the places that generate risk, and you change the pattern.
Response Tech
- Activates after harm
- Focused on people
- Measures speed and volume
- Reactive by design
Simsi
- Activates before harm
- Focused on places
- Measures environmental risk
- Prevention by design
The scientific basis
A meta-analysis found that RTM captured 44.7% of future cases in the top 10% of identified risk cells.
Problem-oriented policing, operationalized
The SARA cycle, with a place to actually run it.
Scan, analyze, respond, assess. Problem-oriented policing gave you the method, not the system to run it in. CAD is built for response, and a spreadsheet cannot coordinate prevention across teams and time. Simsi is the system of record for SARA work, so problem-solving gets tracked, assigned, and proven. DICE™ is the coached version of the same cycle.
Scanning
Break the problem down
Turn a citywide challenge into specific places, risk factors, and actions that a team can own.
Analysis
Diagnose environmental risk
Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) shows which place features are driving harm, so teams know what to change.
Response
Assign interventions across partners
Give police, city departments, non-profits, and community groups one shared map, plan, and task list.
Assessment
Prove what changed
Track what happened, what moved, and what should change in the next cycle.
One prevention system
Connected analysis, training, and action planning.
Priorities, assignments, and results stay tied to the same places.
Training + Software
DICE™
A 6-month program for running data-informed community engagement, then keeping the process going in ActionHub.
Learn moreAction Planning
ActionHub
Assign, track, and report on prevention work across agencies and partners.
Learn moreAnalytics
RTMDx
Diagnose which environmental features are creating crime risk at specific places.
Learn moreDocumented outcomes
Real reductions in real places.
Results from teams that used place-based analysis to focus prevention work.
35%
drop in gun violence
Newark, NJ
63%
drop in robberies
Atlantic City, NJ
47%
drop in violent crime
Essex Police, UK
42%
reduction in gun violence
Wichita, KS
Law Enforcement
Wichita, KS
Wichita used Simsi-supported place-based prevention work to focus interventions where violence risk was concentrating.
View outcomes →Law Enforcement
Kansas City, MO
A taskforce used RTM to coordinate police, prosecutors, and partners around high-risk places.
View outcomes →Law Enforcement
Essex Police, UK
Essex Police directed preventive activity to the specific places RTM identified as highest risk.
View outcomes →Free tools
Try the prevention approach before you commit.
Free, browser-based tools for breaking down problems and aligning partners.
Problem Breakdownifier
Turn a large public-safety challenge into specific, prioritized place-based sub-problems your team can act on.
Try it free →
Public Safety Quadrants
Map planned and responsive strategies across the proactive/reactive and give/take spectrum, then spot gaps in your current mix.
Try it free →
