For corporate security · Crime Science
Spend on security only where and when the risk is.
In Mexico City, half of all high-impact crime happens in less than 5% of the territory. Aleph’s risk index, by block and hour, tells you which 5% matters to your operation.
What it does
What it includes
For: Corporate security managers and analysts
- Incident mapMore than 11 million geocoded incidents
- Risk indexFrom 1 to 5 by block and hour
- Risk by siteEach branch or plant against your network
- Data science modelsConcentration, kernel density, trends and forecasting
The mathematics of crime, published in Science
Aleph’s data science team, with Dr. Rafael Prieto Curiel
PhD in Applied Mathematics from UCL. He led strategic analysis at Mexico City’s C5 emergency center, building crime prediction and police allocation models.
- Concentration by place and hour
- Kernel density
- Trends and shocks
- Forecasting
Some of his papers
- Reducing cartel recruitment is the only way to lower violence in MexicoScience, 2023Cartels must recruit 350 to 370 people a week; reducing recruitment is what lowers violence.
- Weekly Crime ConcentrationJournal of Quantitative Criminology, 2021A few hours of the week concentrate most crime, and each crime has its own “heartbeat”.
- Measuring the Distribution of Crime and Its ConcentrationJournal of Quantitative Criminology, 2018A standard measure of how concentrated crime is across the population.
- Does crime (n)ever skip a beat? Analyzing crime heartbeats in a European cityTime & Society, 2025Concentration in time is a stable signature of each crime, down to the street segment.
Source: public CV and Google Scholar, October 2026
Focus your spend: 6 of 40 sites carry 78% of the risk
Risk index of the 10 most exposed sites in your network
Example with sample data
More than 30% savings on guard services with no rise in incidents, by matching each station’s risk by hour against guard type and shift.
Oil company with service stationsWorks with
Frequently asked questions
Where do the incidents come from, and how often are they updated?
From more than 250 sources: official data (SESNSP, prosecutors, 911), open sources verified by analysts and a network of companies that share what happens to them anonymously. Incidence daily; blockades within minutes.
Should I use the Consola or Aliado?
Today, the Consola. Its layers move to Aliado in stages during 2027; your account executive will give you the date.