Tech Solutions Related To UN SDG 16: Peace Justice and Strong Institutions

According to our most recent user survey, Spotlight is helping find more child victims of human trafficking, faster. Used by officers in all 50 states and Canada, our web-based tool has helped in identifying 17,092 child victims of human trafficking in the past four years. With only a 25% average response rate, we’re confident these numbers represent the low end of our impact.

PAVE is an innovative platform that facilitates best practices and creates a single screening, assessment, and referral process for victims of trafficking. From screening through next steps, PAVE provides the tools to improve identification and response as a collaborative community. We can tailor PAVE to work within the context of each agency’s reporting and referral process.

The company’s flagship tool, Traffic Jam, uses AI like facial recognition to help law enforcement find victims and enable them to take down organized criminal networks. In 2019, Traffic Jam was used to identify an estimated 3,800 victims of sex trafficking. Traffic Jam is used by law enforcement agencies in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

We Said Enough app creates a community of survivors, volunteers, and activists who can provide immediate social support to victims of sexual harassment, abuse, and bullying. The app provides needed restorative resources to begin the healing process.

Introducing SPIDR Engage, the world's first community relationship management platform for public safety agencies. SPIDR Engage allows law enforcement agencies to use their own data to automatically engage their citizens using victim follow ups, citizen request followups, targeted surveys and more.

Callisto's vision is a world where sexual assault is rare and survivors are supported. Our mission is to create technology that combats sexual assault, supports survivors, and advances justice. Callisto Campus is designed to detect repeat perpetrators and empower victims to make the reporting decision that feels right for them. Callisto is a nonprofit that gives survivors a new way to take action.

LEADS was designed as a result of years of ongoing research to help law enforcement identify traffickers and see the full scope of the network in order to hold perpetrators accountable. LEADS facilitates an intel-driven approach that decreases emphasis on victim self-identification and cooperation, and provides law enforcement with credible cases that investigators can work on collaboratively.

JDoe is an anonymous, end-to-end encrypted reporting platform for survivors of sexual assault, rape, abuse and harassment to stop repeat offenders. By linking victims of mutual offenders with lawyers, JDoe encourages the pursuit of legal action to catalyze legal success and prevent future offenses. JDoe brings survivors better chances of justice being served plus resources for healing.

Darrow is a data for justice technology company. People around the world are seriously harmed by legal violations that go completely undetected, from cancer-causing air pollution to privacy breaches and more. We scan publicly available data to detect potential claims & transform them into high-value litigation assets and partner with top-tier litigators to bring justice to millions of victims.

Polaris has assisted thousands of victims and survivors through the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline, helped ensure countless traffickers were held accountable and built the largest known U.S. data set on actual trafficking experiences. We cannot end this one person, one survivor at a time. But with your help, we can target the systems that make human trafficking possible.