Babel Street Criminal Investigations
Law enforcement agencies at all levels are faced with an evolving landscape of physical and online crime perpetrated by transnational criminal organizations, nation states, local syndicates, and individuals. OSINT tools from Babel Street can help law enforcement professionals investigate and prevent increasingly complex criminal activities.
OSINT tools for complex crime detection and protection
Persistent, Multilingual OSINT Searches
Search across thousands of sources — social media, public records, and the deep/dark web in over 200 languages with citations and data provenance
Secure, Anonymous Digital Investigations
Ensure investigator anonymity through managed attribution that masks IP addresses, emulates mobile devices, and bypasses geo-restrictions
AI-Driven Threat Detection
Use automated bulk data enrichment and entity resolution to detect violent intent, analyze sentiment, and identify credible threats in online content
Optimized for Complex Investigations
Accelerate investigations into human trafficking, drug networks, and financial crimes with relationship mapping and new investigative pathways
Seamless Integration and Automation
Integrate with existing systems and automate data collection, analysis, and reporting to reduce manual effort, and accelerates case resolution
Strong Location Intelligence
Visualize digital activity across time and space, map patterns of life, identify hotspots of criminal behavior, and correlate online chatter with physical locations
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Drug trafficking
Proactively identify and disrupt drug trafficking operations by analyzing open-source and proprietary data streams. Babel Street helps investigators uncover communication patterns, monitor keywords and coded language associated with illicit drug trade, and reveal the networks that traffickers rely on.
Human trafficking
Detect the patterns that indicate human trafficking, illuminate hidden networks, and expose clandestine operations. Investigators can use social media monitoring, document search, and geographic mapping to pinpoint recruitment hotspots, monitor suspicious advertisements, and track the movement of individuals.
Event and venue protection
Babel Street empowers event organizers and security teams to proactively monitor threats and suspicious behaviors in real time. By aggregating data from social media, public records, and other digital sources, the platform enables rapid threat detection and situational awareness, ensuring safer environments for attendees and staff.
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Using Babel Street Solutions to Investigate Fentanyl Traffickers
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Babel Street Solutions Help Law Enforcement Elevate Event Protection
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Using Babel Street Technology to Detect Human Trafficking
How Babel Street Insights facilitates the use of publicly available information to fight human trafficking.
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Using Babel Street Insights to Prevent Illegal Street Rallies
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Insights
Real-time, AI-assisted multilingual risk analysis that automates threat detection, scoring, and prioritization to uncover hidden connections, reduce exposure, and drive confident, proactive decisions
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