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Trends in Security Information
The HSD Trendmonitor is designed to provide access to relevant content on various subjects in the safety and security domain, to identify relevant developments and to connect knowledge and organisations. The safety and security domain encompasses a vast number of subjects. Four relevant taxonomies (type of threat or opportunity, victim, source of threat and domain of application) have been constructed in order to visualize all of these subjects. The taxonomies and related category descriptions have been carefully composed according to other taxonomies, European and international standards and our own expertise.
In order to identify safety and security related trends, relevant reports and HSD news articles are continuously scanned, analysed and classified by hand according to the four taxonomies. This results in a wide array of observations, which we call ‘Trend Snippets’. Multiple Trend Snippets combined can provide insights into safety and security trends. The size of the circles shows the relative weight of the topic, the filters can be used to further select the most relevant content for you. If you have an addition, question or remark, drop us a line at info@securitydelta.nl.
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Citizen participation in criminal intelligence
Information provided by citizens during criminal investigations has been crucial for centuries. Digitalisation has fundamentally changed how citizens interact with criminal investigations. It has for example sped up (online) interactions and provides new forms of gathering intelligence, such as Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT). OSINT has also provided a basis for the rise of legal, open-source investigation groups. For example, various journalists and citizen-journalists within a journalistic organisation, can use open-source intelligence to conduct (open) investigations in order to uncover criminal acts and criminal organisations, such as human rights abuses and organised crime.
Furthermore, some facilitating investigations are completely conducted by citizens. The risk of the latter is that novel forms of vigilante violence can arise. An example of such a phenomenon is called ‘Pedo-hunting’, where vigilante groups attempt to find and confront those who they suspect have pedophilic tendencies. Therefore, it is important to differentiate between legitimate, police-led, community participation and illegitimate, and often illegal, vigilante actions.
Related keywords: Bellingcat, WhatsApp buurtpreventie, crime watch, neighbourhood watch, Digiwacht, cybersheriff
Information provided by citizens during criminal investigations has been crucial for centuries. Digitalisation has fundamentally changed how citizens interact with criminal investigations. It has for example sped up (online) interactions and provides new forms of gathering intelligence, such as Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT). OSINT has also provided a basis for the rise of legal, open-source investigation groups. For example, various journalists and citizen-journalists within a journalistic organisation, can use open-source intelligence to conduct (open) investigations in order to uncover criminal acts and criminal organisations, such as human rights abuses and organised crime.
Furthermore, some facilitating investigations are completely conducted by citizens. The risk of the latter is that novel forms of vigilante violence can arise. An example of such a phenomenon is called ‘Pedo-hunting’, where vigilante groups attempt to find and confront those who they suspect have pedophilic tendencies. Therefore, it is important to differentiate between legitimate, police-led, community participation and illegitimate, and often illegal, vigilante actions.
Related keywords: Bellingcat, WhatsApp buurtpreventie, crime watch, neighbourhood watch, Digiwacht, cybersheriff