Summary
To identify capabilities that can facilitate and/or enable a national decentralized information sharing environment that will allow states to analyze and share information from Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD), Law Enforcement Records Management Systems (LERMS), and other criminal justice/public safety information systems without requiring data to be uploaded into a centralized national-level information system. For purposes of this document, the definition of decentralized information sharing environment is an information sharing environment that enables data analytics and
information sharing but does not require all data to be uploaded into a centralized data repository. Traditional approaches for data analysis favored centralization of data, enabling a centralized system to apply tools against a single repository to generate knowledge artifacts such as entity resolutions, relationships, and link graphs. As data sets continue to grow and analysis approaches evolve, a more decentralized approach will improve long-term scalability and allow national-level analysis while maintaining state control of data dissemination. See attached file.