Vulnerable Victim Monitoring - Connecting the Dots to Find Missing Children Quickly - Pasqua Ruggiero, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
According to Child Find of America, an estimated 2,300 children go missing each day. That equates to over half a million missing children per year. Most of these children are runaways, a population that is quite vulnerable to trafficking. Trafficked victims can be exploited for their PII in relation to account take over, stolen or synthetic identity fraud.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inquiries are comprised of searches for fraud and credit seeking consumers which are stored in HPCC Systems. These hundreds of billions of inquiry data can be searched retroactively and monitored proactively for matches on missing children within a reasonable geographic area. Additional topics of discussion will include data visualization capabilities in Python with data obtained from both the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s public RSS feed (current missing cases) as well as all missing cases from the past 20 years (obtained from the ADAM Program). We will also discuss proposals for additional future studies utilizing the power of HPCC Systems to extract other types of big data and provide further insights and information to provide law enforcement and social services to better aid them in the search and prevention of human trafficking.
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