PlateRanger and CrimeTracer Integration
PlateRanger’s ALPR system integrates with CrimeTracer to cross-reference license plate data with over a billion records, rapidly uncovering connections to suspects, locations, and incidents.

Integrating data and connecting systems through the SafetySmart Platform brings together AI-based software solutions and objective data to help law enforcement protect their communities.
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Wish you had a way of quickly and easily make correlations between shooting incidents and suspect vehicles, and then see all the associations related to that vehicle, all from one centralized platform?
PlateRanger’s ALPR system integrates with CrimeTracer to cross-reference license plate data with over a billion records, rapidly uncovering connections to suspects, locations, and incidents.
A case folder is automatically created from a ShotSpotter gunshot detection alert with an easy import of NIBIN leads to maximize efficiency.
ShotSpotter detects gunfire in real time and alerts law enforcement within seconds, while integrated PlateRanger can identify and track vehicles nearby and leaving the scene of the incident.
Investigators can now take the actionable leads and connections they uncover in CrimeTracer and easily enter them into a case file in CaseBuilder.




Reducing data silos and automating data sharing between systems focuses staff time on tasks other than data entry and searching multiple systems. The SafetySmart Platform products integrate with most CAD, RMS and RTTC systems, as well as other video monitoring and CCTV systems, increasing staff time to focus on the more important aspects of safety and security.








Maryon Boyce
West Columbia, SC
West Columbia Police Chief Marion Boyce shares a touching story about a resident who, after ShotSpotter was implemented, felt safe enough to enjoy her life again. Once saying, ‘I’m tired of not being able to go out and live life,’ she later sent Chief Boyce a thank you card, expressing her gratitude for being able to sit outside without fear.


Maryon Boyce
West Columbia, SC
West Columbia Police Chief Marion Boyce shares a touching story about a resident who, after ShotSpotter was implemented, felt safe enough to enjoy her life again. Once saying, ‘I’m tired of not being able to go out and live life,’ she later sent Chief Boyce a thank you card, expressing her gratitude for being able to sit outside without fear.



Stuart VanHoozer
Cobb County, GA
In this video, the Cobb County Police Chief Stuart VanHoozer and sergeant Sarah Penirelli share how, with the help of CrimeTracer, the police were able to locate and apprehend the second murder suspect from a 2019 homicide, ultimately solving the case.



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South Bend PD
In this video, members of the South Bend Police Department and Worcester Police Department weigh in on police patrol successes leveraging ResourceRouter.


Hear directly from officers, detectives, and command staff about how these solutions are making a real impact in public safety. Explore their stories and see how your agency can benefit from SoundThinking’s solutions like CrimeTracer.
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CaseBuilder is a leading case management solution that helps law enforcement agencies achieve higher clearance rates*, especially for violent crimes. The cloud-based system enables agencies to better capture, track, analyze and collaborate on investigations enabling them to be more efficient and effective. The system creates a single, secure digital case folder for each case and can be used from the office or the field. (*a measure of cases solved by police)
The system centers around 5 key components:
There is a tiered annual subscription fee based on the size of the agency that includes 24x7x365 customer support and best practices consulting assistance. There is also a one-time set up fee that includes provisioning the account, agency data integrations if needed and training, etc.
When it comes to case management, RMS systems don’t measure up to what an effective detective squad needs to efficiently handle complex, confidential investigations in an organized and automated manner. Industry feedback and analysis indicates that case management is an inadequate feature in legacy solutions. CaseBuilder delivers a comprehensive solution, that can be coupled with your RMS, to better manage the most complex and often most violent criminal offenses for your agency.
Most agencies are not aware of the significant advancements in case management tools available today. CaseBuilder is designed as a fully automated solution, and the platform’s collaboration, analytics and reporting tools help detectives move investigations forward.
Furthermore, with CaseBuilder, no third-party systems are needed. A prosecutor can grab a case from within the platform. Additionally, permissions can be configured for external users, such as an outside agency you may be collaborating with on a certain case.
With built-in capabilities including case chronology, link analysis, tip corroboration and more, CaseBuilder streamlines the investigator’s workflow to provide the most efficient and effective process for solving a case.
RMS systems are often intended for crime reporting and initial data collection. RMS systems most often do not support the complete investigative processes and workflows that are very time intensive and require substantial data and information collection.
The system includes a robust platform of reports including:
While SoundThinking is best known for its gunshot detection service, this new system helps manages all types of situations, including:
– Internal affairs investigations
– Use of Force investigations
– Intelligence investigations that meet stringent data retention and security policies
– General offense case management
– Gang and Organization management
With that said, CaseBuilder also integrates with ShotSpotter, and ShotSpotter customers can leverage the platform’s NIBIN lead management to help assist in gun crimes.
SoundThinking takes security and compliance very seriously and includes the following best practices:
Agencies can configure the system to meet their organization’s needs. Components can be enabled or disabled by agency administrators, and they also control role-based permissions to define the functionality and data each end user may access.
Components can be restricted to particular users and groups ensuring confidential information always stays secure and cannot be viewed or disseminated by unauthorized users.
CaseBuilder has robust, proactive alerting and notification features.
CaseBuilder can publish case folders and create a complete file, including all digital assets and attachments related to the case, for easy dissemination to prosecutors.
CaseBuilder can also be implemented within a prosecutor’s investigation to provide a more streamlined and efficient digital case folder for complex investigations.
It is a relatively straightforward and streamlined deployment process that can be completed with just a few steps. A SoundThinking representative will setup your agency’s account in our secure cloud environment and then work with your system administrator to complete the initial configuration to meet your requirements. The system can be up and running for end users to begin casework the same day. Following initial configuration, your agency administrator and any secondary admins you appoint will have full capability to manage the highly configurable system and support your end users. Meanwhile, SoundThinking’s support team remains ready to assist whenever needed.
SoundThinking offers:
CaseBuilder is a leading case management solution that helps law enforcement agencies achieve higher clearance rates*, especially for violent crimes. The cloud-based system enables agencies to better capture, track, analyze and collaborate on investigations enabling them to be more efficient and effective. The system creates a single, secure digital case folder for each case and can be used from the office or the field. (*a measure of cases solved by police)
The system centers around 5 key components:
There is a tiered annual subscription fee based on the size of the agency that includes 24x7x365 customer support and best practices consulting assistance. There is also a one-time set up fee that includes provisioning the account, agency data integrations if needed and training, etc.
When it comes to case management, RMS systems don’t measure up to what an effective detective squad needs to efficiently handle complex, confidential investigations in an organized and automated manner. Industry feedback and analysis indicates that case management is an inadequate feature in legacy solutions. CaseBuilder delivers a comprehensive solution, that can be coupled with your RMS, to better manage the most complex and often most violent criminal offenses for your agency.
Most agencies are not aware of the significant advancements in case management tools available today. CaseBuilder is designed as a fully automated solution, and the platform’s collaboration, analytics and reporting tools help detectives move investigations forward.
Furthermore, with CaseBuilder, no third-party systems are needed. A prosecutor can grab a case from within the platform. Additionally, permissions can be configured for external users, such as an outside agency you may be collaborating with on a certain case.
With built-in capabilities including case chronology, link analysis, tip corroboration and more, CaseBuilder streamlines the investigator’s workflow to provide the most efficient and effective process for solving a case.
RMS systems are often intended for crime reporting and initial data collection. RMS systems most often do not support the complete investigative processes and workflows that are very time intensive and require substantial data and information collection.
The system includes a robust platform of reports including:
While SoundThinking is best known for its gunshot detection service, this new system helps manages all types of situations, including:
– Internal affairs investigations
– Use of Force investigations
– Intelligence investigations that meet stringent data retention and security policies
– General offense case management
– Gang and Organization management
With that said, CaseBuilder also integrates with ShotSpotter, and ShotSpotter customers can leverage the platform’s NIBIN lead management to help assist in gun crimes.
SoundThinking takes security and compliance very seriously and includes the following best practices:
Agencies can configure the system to meet their organization’s needs. Components can be enabled or disabled by agency administrators, and they also control role-based permissions to define the functionality and data each end user may access.
Components can be restricted to particular users and groups ensuring confidential information always stays secure and cannot be viewed or disseminated by unauthorized users.
CaseBuilder has robust, proactive alerting and notification features.
CaseBuilder can publish case folders and create a complete file, including all digital assets and attachments related to the case, for easy dissemination to prosecutors.
CaseBuilder can also be implemented within a prosecutor’s investigation to provide a more streamlined and efficient digital case folder for complex investigations.
It is a relatively straightforward and streamlined deployment process that can be completed with just a few steps. A SoundThinking representative will setup your agency’s account in our secure cloud environment and then work with your system administrator to complete the initial configuration to meet your requirements. The system can be up and running for end users to begin casework the same day. Following initial configuration, your agency administrator and any secondary admins you appoint will have full capability to manage the highly configurable system and support your end users. Meanwhile, SoundThinking’s support team remains ready to assist whenever needed.
SoundThinking offers:
You can access a wide range of data, including: court data, evidence and lab data, NIBIN shell casing reports, mugshots, probation and parole information, stop data, tip lines, warrants, daily bulletins, CrimeDex alerts, BOLOs and vehicular data.
Your agency owns the data you share with CrimeTracer, and you control which data is shared with the broader community of vetted law enforcement personnel. Your agency’s data is never changed or altered, just restructured and augmented to facilitate enhanced user interaction with the data.
All documents are stored online across multiple data formats (text, database, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, images, video). You can integrate dozens of data types, including CAD, RMS, stop data, bookings, court records, and person and vehicle data.
You can search on specific keywords of interest or even general attributes of a crime. Search results include a one-click link charting, timeline, hotspot, and geospatial analysis.
PlateRanger is an advanced vehicle and license plate recognition (LPR) technology that can quickly uncover investigative leads for vehicle-related crimes. It leverages NVIDIA-powered AI software and advanced high-definition cameras to capture vehicle information and connect criminal vehicle associations through advanced analytics, streamlining the investigative process. Over the last 25 years, Rekor has perfected the PlateRanger ALPR solution.
While PlateRanger is built on Rekor’s advanced LPR technology, it is part of SoundThinking’s SafetySmart Platform and can be used alone or integrated with ShotSpotter and CrimeTracer solutions to provide a comprehensive crime investigation platform.
For example, when ShotSpotter detects a gunshot, the system can quickly identify vehicles near the incident, providing investigative leads or even alerting on suspected vehicles with criminal history at the time of the gunfire and quickly providing critical information that may lead to apprehension and conviction.
In addition, the integration with CrimeTracer and PlateRanger allows investigators to seamlessly search the license plate for known associations across more than a billion CJIS records and public source data. Using CrimeTracer, or Google for Cops, adds the ability to link vehicles across a national database, providing an investigative force multiplier.
Rekor is a leader in developing and implementing state-of-the-art roadway intelligence technology, with IPVM, a leading independent authority on physical security technology, recognizing this status.
ShotSpotter is recognized as a leader in the gunshot detection category. Pioneered over 25 years ago using a propriety AI algorithm, ShotSpotter is successfully deployed in more than 170 cities. ShotSpotter ensures accuracy and provides independently reviewed alerts. It includes video of the location and incident and is admissible in court as part of case evidence. ShotSpotter ultimately helps police officers save lives and collect critical evidence for investigations.
By integrating PlateRanger and ShotSpotter, we deliver industry-leading technologies designed to empower law enforcement with rapid and precise gunshot detection, seamlessly paired with automated and intelligent LPR integrations to jumpstart investigations.
PlateRanger offers competitive pricing and delivers exceptional value through its advanced features and superior performance, making PlateRanger a cost-effective choice for LPR. PlateRanger cameras can bolster your existing LPR plan, adding cameras where needed and providing an easy-to-use application, or provide a feature-rich and industry-leading accuracy LPR solution to your repour of law enforcement solutions. PlateRanger also offers the Rekor Blue mobile app, allowing mobile devices equipped with a camera to be used as license plate readers. PlateRanger LPRs include hosting and cellular for each device, making it a complete solution.
Yes, PlateRanger can ingest LPR data from other cameras through an API, allowing agencies to add PlateRanger cameras to existing LPR solutions to expand and enhance coverage.
Accepting data from other cameras lets users to view the combined PlateRanger data in one location. With the CrimeTracer integration, PlateRanger customers can query vehicle information across billions of records to find investigative leads quickly.
Yes, PlateRanger can integrate with state and national systems to automatically receive the latest wanted vehicle lists. Additionally, agencies can share agency-specific hot lists and other custom alerts.
SoundThinking’s PlateRanger system collects and manages vehicle data, including license plate numbers, images, and related information to support criminal investigations. The company maintains strict control over data, including AES-256 encryption, use controls and storage policies, retaining plate read data for up to 30 days, after which it’s securely deleted or anonymized. SoundThinking does not share this data without explicit agency approval or sell it for commercial purposes. The company implements robust security measures to safeguard user privacy and complies with relevant data protection laws, such as CJIS and others, balancing public safety needs and individual privacy concerns.
PlateRanger, powered by Rekor’s leading LPR technology, delivers industry-best read performance and high reliability. Utilizing AI edge processing, it provides exceptionally fast and accurate license plate recognition, ensuring reliable investigative leads for vehicle-related crimes. The solution delivers industry-leading plate detection with 99% accuracy, ensuring that no criminal goes unnoticed.
PlateRanger helps law enforcement quickly identify and track vehicles associated with criminal investigations. For example, PlateRanger can analyze criminal vehicle movement patterns, including vehicles that frequently travel together, cross-reference data with known criminal associations, and provide immediate investigative leads. This tool significantly speeds up investigations, helping officers connect the dots faster and respond more effectively, ultimately leading to safer communities. And with the valuable Rekor Blue mobile app that can be used on any mobile device with a camera, officers can quickly scan vehicles near a crime scene, checking hot lists, wanted vehicles, and other alerts, enhancing officer safety while searching for associated vehicles.
PlateRanger is a versatile tool suitable for a wide range of investigations, particularly as over 75% of crimes involve vehicles. It is commonly used to track stolen vehicles, identify suspects in homicides, armed robberies, and other felonies, locate vehicles tied to trafficking, and assist in missing person cases involving a vehicle.
PlateRanger provides a robust solution for quickly searching by plate, partial plate, or vehicle characteristics or performing aggregate analytics. It’s an essential tool for any investigation where criminal vehicle movement or identification is critical, providing law enforcement with a consolidated list to make their investigations efficient and effective.
PlateRanger is built to perform accurately across various environments and weather conditions, using advanced AI and robust camera technology to ensure reliability. PlateRanger leverages AI edge processing powered by NVIDIA. Rather than taking a single image to determine vehicle/plate, the system leverages video streams along with 100s of pictures per vehicle to determine vehicle/plate data using proprietary AI built on over 25 years of knowledge. Whether it’s low light, rain, or complex settings, PlateRanger ensures consistent, dependable results.
Today’s law enforcement executives are facing budget and accountability pressures and need precision-policing tools to maximize their resource efficiency and promote more positive community engagement. ResourceRouter is a patrol and analyst tool that automates dynamic patrol location forecasts for all Part 1 crime data across an entire jurisdiction daily, enabling patrol and task force units to deter crime in a more precise and impactful way while also improving community engagement.
Better Information: Review dynamic patrol location forecasts, precise risk assessments. and pre-patrol briefings, facilitating optimal outcomes even with limited staffing and resources.
Better Decisions: Prevent crime and social disorder using the least amount of enforcement necessary and in partnership with the community.
Better Outcomes: Maximize crime deterrence and improve community relations by enabling command staff and line-level supervisors to apply the right dosage of policing in the right places at the right times.
ResourceRouter does not model misdemeanor or nuisance crimes that are more susceptible to enforcement bias. Specifically, it models the major crimes that have an outsized impact on the community:
SoundThinking seeks to reduce crime with its solutions, but that capability alone is not enough to make a public safety solution of benefit to a community. The product must provide more benefit than harm. The company has incorporated technology and policy protections to mitigate bias and discrimination yet still yield a significant public safety benefit. These protections include:
SoundThinking offers:
– ShotSpotter® , an innovative gunshot detection technology that enables law enforcement to proactively address gun violence and arrive at a scene within minutes, saving lives and building community trust in the process.
– CrimeTracer™, the #1 law enforcement search engine that enables investigators to search through more than 1B structured and unstructured data across jurisdictions to obtain immediate tactical leads, leverage advanced link analysis to make intelligent connections, link NIBIN leads to reports, suspects, and other entities, and more.
– CaseBuilder®, a smarter investigation management platform that enables investigative teams to efficiently organize and store case information, track and prioritize assignments, optimize resources, submit materials to prosecution, and more.
– CaseBuilder® Crime Gun, the first-of-its-kind gun crime tracking and analysis case management tool that enables agencies to better capture, track, prioritize, analyze, and collaborate on incidents that involve firearms.
SafePointe is an AI-based concealed weapons detection system. In this context, we define weapons as metallic firearms.
Designed for high-throughput facilities, each lane of the SafePointe weapons detection system consists of two unobtrusive metal bollards positioned up to 8 feet apart, complemented by a 3D camera system and NVIDIA-powered edge processor.
The nondescript bollards seamlessly integrate into the environment, providing a public safety layer without sacrificing ambiance or visitor comfort. The advanced AI works behind the scenes to identify individuals carrying weapons.
SafePointe’s patented system integrates hardware and software, including an NVIDIA®-powered edge processor and an advanced 3D camera, to quickly detect weapons. Here’s how it works:
As entrants move past the bollards, magnetic moment technology identifies a digital signature of any magnetically conductive objects. The NVIDIA®-powered edge processor running a state-of-the-art AI model analyzes whether subjects have weapons, leveraging magnetic moment data along with the live-motion data captured by the advanced 3D camera to determine direction, speed, and movement. If a weapon is detected, the alert is sent to the facility security staff via the SafePointe app or text, including an image identifying the individual, along with a short video. This information enables internal security to respond accordingly using the facility protocols.
No, SafePointe does not use facial recognition technology. Instead, the system relies on motion data and magnetic signature analysis to detect potential threats, ensuring effective security while maintaining personal privacy.
SafePointe is designed for continuous, high-throughput screening, allowing foot traffic to seamlessly pass through entrances with minimal disruption. The system also supports unmanned screening at entrances, enabling free-flowing access to facilities and venues, while reducing operational costs with its ability to simultaneously scan multiple individuals as they move through the detection zone.
SafePointe collects motion and magnetic data, processed locally on the edge processor, without storing personally identifiable information. The system is SOC2 certified and HIPAA compliant.
The SafePointe system is highly versatile and can be installed both indoors and outdoors. The outdoor hardware can withstand harsh weather conditions. The sensors are designed to blend seamlessly into the environment, disguised as common entrance features such as bollards, planters, or trash cans. Facilities can implement multiple lanes to cover all entrances, with each lane requiring a maximum of 8 feet of space between bollards, and can daisy chain bollards to accommodate wide entrances. Existing SafePointe customers include hospitals, casinos, corporate locations, museums, and warehouses across the country.
SafePointe differs from traditional metal detectors in many ways:
SafePointe has transformed security screening protocols at a hospital in Florida. Since its adoption, the hospital has effectively detected numerous concealed weapons. By leveraging technology that identifies weapons based on their distinct magnetic profiles, SafePointe addresses the growing challenge of sophisticated concealment methods. This innovative solution enables the hospital to enhance safety for patients and staff while maintaining its commitment to high-quality care. You can learn more here.
While both SafePointe and Evolv are weapons detection systems, their designs and operations differ significantly. SafePointe employs a discreet, “undercover” approach with unobtrusive bollard-like sensors that blend seamlessly into the environment, minimizing disruption. Its advanced AI algorithms also reduce the need for constant human monitoring, offering potential cost savings in certain applications. SafePointe is ideal for settings where maintaining a subtle security presence is essential, such as casinos, hospitals, or high-traffic areas, whereas Evolv may be better suited for environments where a more visible screening process is acceptable. You can learn more here.
The InSight data platform allows analysis, review, and sharing of SafePointe data across multiple lanes, entrances, and facilities. It provides comprehensive reporting options including alert reviews, historical data, and incident scorecards tracking visitor count, detections, alerts, ground truth, and performance metrics.
Police rely on the community to call 9-1-1 if gunshots are fired, but only 20% of incidents are ever reported on average. This creates a situation where police departments have a large data gap that makes it difficult to be able to effectively “serve and protect” when it comes to gun violence. SoundThinking’s ShotSpotter acoustic gunshot detection technology fills the gap with a network of acoustic sensors that can detect, locate, and alert police to nearly all gunshot incidents. The system is in operation in more than 180 cities and is used by police to: 1) be able to respond to a higher percentage of gunfire incidents; 2) improve response times to crime scenes to better aid victims and find witnesses; and 3) help police locate key evidence to identify and investigate suspects.
ShotSpotter uses an array of acoustic sensors that are connected wirelessly to ShotSpotter’s centralized, cloud-based application to reliably detect and accurately locate gunshots using triangulation. Each acoustic sensor captures the precise time and audio associated with impulsive sounds that may represent gunfire. This data is used to locate the incident and is then filtered by sophisticated machine algorithms to classify the event as a potential gunshot. Acoustic experts, who are located and staffed in ShotSpotter’s 24×7 Incident Review Center, ensure and confirm that the events are indeed gunfire. They can append the alert with other critical intelligence such as whether a fully automatic weapon was fired or whether there are multiple shooters. This entire process takes less than 60 seconds from the time of the shooting to the digital alert popping onto a screen of a computer in the 911 Call Center or on a patrol officer’s smartphone or mobile laptop.
ShotSpotter is used in more than 180 cities and is highly regarded by law enforcement as a critical component of gun violence prevention and reduction strategies. ShotSpotter protects a wide range of city types and sizes ranging from urban metropolitan cities such as Las Vegas and New York City; to medium-sized cities such as Boston, Denver, and Oakland; and small cities with populations less than 50,000 such as Richmond, CA and Pleasantville, NJ.
Gunshot detection by itself is not a panacea for gun violence, but if used as part of a comprehensive gun crime response strategy, it can contribute to a reduction in response times, help to save the lives of GSWs, and improve evidence collection rates. Please visit ShotSpotter Facts for more details.
The ShotSpotter system is highly accurate at detecting outdoor gunshots. From 2019-2021 the system had a 97% aggregate accuracy rate across all of our customers, including a very small customer-reported false positive rate of less than 0.5%.
No. Strict controls and policies ensure that sensors only trigger on loud explosive or impulsive sounds that are likely gunfire – not human voices, even loud ones. An independent privacy audit conducted by NYU’s Policing Project concluded that the risk of voice surveillance is extremely limited.
ShotSpotter does not and will not listen for the sounds of human voices. No community member’s information is obtained or used during any part of the detection or alerting process. Our technology focuses solely on gunshots, not voices. Learn more about community privacy protections here.
ShotSpotter provides police with a tool to respond to and investigate gunshot incidents in a more precise area compared to the 9-1-1 system to avoid canvassing entire blocks or neighborhoods. There is zero data supporting the claim that ShotSpotter puts police on high alert or creates dangerous situations. Rather, ShotSpotter equips police officers with more information than they might typically have when arriving to the scene of a gunshot incident, and they arrive at the scene more situationally aware. Additionally, ShotSpotter provides intelligence that allows police to coordinate a safe and efficient response, requiring fewer resources, and in a way that can enhance community trust.
Right now, we do not have a solution for individual community members. However, you can write a letter to your local elected officials to request ShotSpotter for your neighborhood.
Regardless of whether your city has deployed ShotSpotter, you should still call 9-11- and notify the police. You may not be in a ShotSpotter coverage area as it typically doesn’t cover an entire city. Over 80% of gun crimes go unreported and your call could help save lives. If you’re in a city that has not deployed ShotSpotter, consider reaching out to your local police department or local city council to express your concerns about public safety and to see if they have any plans to implement gunshot detection technology.
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