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CrimeGrade™ for business

Crime risk for every business location, precise to the block

CrimeGrade™ scores each crime at the address and compares each location with the typical store of its type. Every site lands on one national scale, so security budgets, staffing and site choices can follow the risk.

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A CrimeGrade report for 950 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC: overall crime painted on small hexagons within 2 miles of the address, beside a score for each crime.
A CrimeGrade™ report for 950 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. Each crime has its own score and its own map, hexagon by hexagon.
Precise to the blockEach score covers a hexagon about 66 meters on a side, so stores a block apart get their own numbers.
Matched to the businessEach location is compared with the typical store of its type, across 43 business types.
Checked and testedPolice filings are checked month by month, and every model is tested on places and months it never saw.
Store scores

Each store compared with the typical store of its type

A pharmacy and a bar on the same block face different risks. A CrimeGrade™ store score compares each location with the typical store of its own type, crime by crime. A score of 100 matches the typical store of that type nationwide, and 200 means about twice its incidents. Chain stores are compared with chains, and independent stores with independents.

The weighted store score combines the crimes by each crime's share of a typical store's crime losses. Shoplifting weighs most at retail stores, assault at bars, hospitals, fast-food restaurants and hotels, and burglary at most other businesses.

Guard hours, fixtures and audits can follow the risk for each kind of store at each address.

Precision

Scores that hold up in downtowns and shopping districts

Most crime indexes divide crime by the people who live in an area and give one number for each neighborhood. Downtowns, parks and shopping districts have few residents and many visitors, so per-resident rates make them look like the most dangerous ground in a city. Many stores operate in exactly those places.

CrimeGrade™ scores every hexagon about 66 meters on a side and measures each crime against what it targets: shoplifting against retail floor space, vehicle theft against parked cars and street robbery against the time people spend in public.

Theft per resident, by neighborhood

Washington, DC neighborhoods ranked by thefts per resident. The National Mall, which has no residents, is counted as one resident and shows in red, along with much of downtown.

CrimeGrade™ theft score, by hexagon

The same city on CrimeGrade's hexagon grid, colored by the theft score. The National Mall is dark green, and red hexagons cluster in neighborhoods north and east of it.
Less theftMore theftWater or no score
Washington, DC. Left: thefts per resident in each neighborhood, ranked within the city. The National Mall has no residents, so it is counted as one, which puts it in the city's top 1% for thefts per resident. Right: the CrimeGrade™ theft score for each hexagon, on the national 0 to 1000 scale a report uses. The Mall's roughly 67 reported thefts a year are measured against the time visitors spend there and the cars parked around it, and the Mall scores 25 out of 1000, lower than 98% of the city's neighborhoods.

A store in a busy district is scored on the risk to the shoppers, workers and cars around it, which is the risk the store carries. What makes the scores accurate

SCAPP: Source of Crime

Keep existing risk models running through a switch

Many security teams run risk models built on legacy source-of-crime reports, which estimate where people likely to commit crimes live. SCAPP: Source of Crime is the CrimeGrade™ estimate on that familiar scale, with 100 as the U.S. average, so those models keep working after a switch.

  • Site scores at radii from 1 to 12 miles, labeled SCAPP 1 Mile, SCAPP 3 Mile and so on
  • Every field in a CSV export, with full scores for modeling
  • CrimeGrade™ scores for where crime happens, in the same report

Source-of-crime scores describe where offenders may live. A store's losses happen where crime happens, and that is what CrimeGrade™ scores measure.

Teams can move to CrimeGrade™ without rebuilding the models they rely on today.

The same Washington, DC report switched to SCAPP: Source of Crime, with neighborhoods shaded on the scale where 100 is the U.S. average.
The report's map switches between CrimeGrade™ scores and SCAPP: Source of Crime.
Uses

The decisions CrimeGrade™ supports

Loss prevention

Protect the stores that carry the risk

Compare locations by the crimes that cost each type of store the most, then set guard hours, fixtures and audits to match.

Site selection

Check a site before signing the lease

Score a planned address and its 1-, 3- and 5-mile rings, with written advice for new stores.

Security staffing

Size guard and patrol coverage

Yearly crime counts in each ring show the volume a patrol or guard plan has to cover.

Insurance and risk

Review commercial exposure

Score commercial properties and whole portfolios at the address and in the area around it.

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Pricing

Launch special
From $149 a location for 20 or more reports in an order. Organizations that order while launch pricing is offered keep launch prices for two years.

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Enterprise

100+ locations: custom modeling on your own loss data, and discounts when switching from another provider.

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Questions

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