# Rapid Response Neutralizes Threat to Sporting Event

**Published:** Jan 10, 2024  
**Topics:** Law Enforcement  
**Type:** success-story

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*The Impact*
## Insights for Situational Awareness

- **2 hours**: From discovery to case closed
- **98%**: Reduction in time required to identify the subject
- **Insights Unified**: All necessary tools for accelerated time-to-insight within Babel Street Insights

*Customer Challenge*
## Rapid assessment of potential threat

*Understanding the Threat*
## Threat to sporting event: Real or not?

- Large-scale law enforcement agency detected a potential violent threat to a national sporting event on social media that was inciting a growing number of interactions
- Agency needed to quickly assess severity of the threat

*The Solution*
## All-in-one: threat detection to resolution

*Resolving Customer Challenges*
## Making the connections to swiftly defuse threat

- Babel Street Insights data stream collection and filtering focused on event keywords and locations (venue, neighborhood); applied keyword proximity to refine results
- Agency was able to rapidly identify author’s location, email, and phone number through Insights comprehensive public records and open-source search

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