
Organized Retail Crime: Understanding and Mitigating the Risks with Geospatial Analytics
While shoplifting is a significant and costly challenge, it is dwarfed in terms of scale and severity by another more pervasive form of criminal
activity: organized retail crime. While similar in practice, organized retail crime or ORC is distinguished from shoplifting by
intent. Through geospatial analytics Global Investigations is able to identify areas at risk, assess the impact of a fence, and
disrupt serial offenders.