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The Crime Strategies Center (CSC) collaborates with local, county, state, and federal law enforcement partners to proactively combat crime, establish investigative priorities implement precision policing strategies, enhance cases, and provide trial support. The CSC consists of two High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Analysts, two WCDAO Crime Analysts, and three WCDAO Senior Crime Analysts. One analyst is specifically dedicated to combating hate and bias crimes.
Collectively, CSC Analysts conduct high-level analysis, utilizing multiple methods of collection, with the goal of developing actionable intelligence leading to innovative enforcement strategies in support of our law enforcement partners. The wide-range of data analysis includes, but is not limited to: violent offender’s activities and associates, locations and methods of criminal activity, and narcotics overdose data sets. CSC Analysts are also embedded with HIDTA’s Gun Violence Strategy Partnership, which includes federal, state and local law enforcement partners.
The Violent Criminal Enterprise Bureau (VCEB) investigates and prosecutes violent criminal activity that includes shootings, felony assaults, firearm possession and trafficking, arson, hate crimes and bias incidents, organized criminal activities – pattern burglary and robbery operations – narcotics trafficking and distribution rings, and group violence networks. The VCEB collaborates with local, county, state, and federal law enforcement to undermine violent criminal conduct throughout Westchester County.
The Cold Case Bureau investigates unsolved homicides and other violent crimes that were committed over five years ago, are no longer being actively investigated by law enforcement, and have the potential to be solved through newly acquired information or advanced technologies, particularly DNA and other scientific means. The Bureau works to unify county resources and subject matter experts into a multidisciplinary team to methodically review and investigate violent cold cases with the goal of holding offenders accountable and bringing justice to victims and their families.
The Major Case Bureau handles serious violent assaults, robberies, shootings, stabbings, kidnappings, and burglaries committed in Westchester County and vertically prosecutes these cases. The Bureau also handles serious and complicated multi-jurisdictional investigations of high-profile felonies and assists law enforcement during the initial investigatory stage and through any resultant prosecution and disposition.
