BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: FROM WHAT IT IS TO HOW IS IT MAKING CITIES SAFER TO LIVE.

This paper aims to discuss what Business Intelligence is and how a public safety model is made and implemented to make any city or country safer to live. Using technology to decrease crime rates is now a common practise in some cities. Business Intelligence also participates in the same with its tools and techniques. The paper will analyse a working model of an open system of the city Baltimore, Maryland where we can access and visualise crime records in a very interactive manner. Interactive dashboards of Delhi, the National Capital Region of India, from the crime data which includes number of different crimes occurred in each state and union territories from 2001 to 2012 have been created to give a glimpse of a new public safety model. We will discuss the future scope on how the crime data can be categorized and visualised efficiently for better analysis and hence improve the safety of public.