The current challenge
Location comparisons often depend on scattered data, spreadsheets, recent incidents or inconsistent judgment. Teams spend time building context before analysis can begin.
Location intelligence for security prioritization
Prioritize which locations deserve security attention first.
Locivra compares historical crime exposure around multiple locations and turns it into explainable priority rankings and decision-ready reports.
Current scope: Toronto locations using Toronto Police Service Open Data. Designed to support—not replace—professional judgment, CPTED assessments and site visits.
Locivra
Location intelligence for smarter security decisions
Illustrative portfolio view
1Review first
Downtown location
Higher surrounding historical exposure
2Review next
Midtown location
Multiple elevated contributors
3Monitor
Outer-area location
Lower relative exposure
5retail-relevant crime categories
500 mrecommended urban-retail default radius
0–100explainable location-priority score
4–6 weekssuggested pilot evaluation period
Why Locivra
Security teams have more locations than attention.
When budgets and analyst time are limited, the first decision is not what intervention to deploy. It is where a closer review could create the most value.
A defensible starting point
Locivra creates a consistent first-pass priority list, shows the historical crime factors influencing each score and produces an output stakeholders can review.
Typical first-pass process
With Locivra
Review locations one by one
Compare a submitted portfolio together
Gather and normalize crime context manually
Apply one transparent scoring framework
Struggle to explain why one site goes first
See the contributing categories and relative position
Commission deeper reviews without portfolio triage
Focus expert review on locations that warrant attention
How it works
From an address list to an explainable priority queue.
The workflow is intentionally simple so users can reach the decision faster without treating the score as an automated verdict.
1
Share 5–20 locations
Provide Toronto addresses in a spreadsheet or CSV and confirm the decision the portfolio review should support.
2
Compare historical exposure
Locivra applies the selected radius, distance weighting, crime-category weights and Toronto comparison context.
3
Review the output
Receive a ranked portfolio, plain-language score explanation, PDF report and options for deeper follow-up on priority locations.
Data and methodology
Transparent by design—not a black box.
Version 1.0 is a prototype methodology informed by environmental criminology, place-based research, CPTED and RTM principles. Its assumptions are disclosed so they can be tested and improved.
Historical reported crime
Current analysis uses Toronto Police Service Open Data for Assault, Robbery, Break and Enter, Auto Theft, and Theft Over $5,000.
Distance-weighted exposure
Incidents closer to the selected location receive more influence than incidents near the edge of the analysis radius.
Prototype crime weights
Categories are weighted for their current estimated relevance to retail safety, staff and customer harm, and property loss.
Relative comparison
Location exposure is compared with broader Toronto patterns to create sub-scores and an overall 0–100 priority score.
Visible assumptions
Reports state the radius, data source, date coverage, contributors and limitations so the result can be interrogated.
Validation before expansion
Radius, decay logic, crime weights and future environmental layers require expert feedback and empirical testing.
Responsible-use boundary: Locivra uses historical reported-crime data to support location prioritization. It does not predict that crime will occur, certify a location as safe or unsafe, or replace internal incident data, professional judgment and site assessment.
Decision-ready output
Make the priority easier to review and explain.
Each assessment packages the portfolio view and the reasoning behind it into a shareable format.
- Ranked portfolio of submitted locations
- Overall and crime-category priority scores
- Plain-language explanation of key contributors
- Documented data scope, radius and limitations
- Optional site-level follow-up for priority locations
Illustrative report layout
Request full report
Portfolio Security Prioritization Report
Decision support for reviewing which submitted locations warrant attention first.
Executive summary
A clear portfolio ranking, the evidence behind each position and the next validation question for the security team.
Illustrative sample
A score starts a review—it does not settle one.
This example shows the structure of a Locivra output. Values are illustrative and should not be treated as a current assessment of a real location.
Illustrative portfolio location
78.7 / 100
High review priority
Theft Over $5,00082
Break and Enter76
Robbery71
Assault80
Auto Theft45
Pilot program
Test the workflow with 5–20 real locations.
A four-to-six-week pilot is designed to answer one practical question: does Locivra help your team decide where to look first?
Align
Confirm the portfolio, use case, current process and measures of usefulness.
Analyze
Load the location list and produce the ranked portfolio and draft reports.
Review
Compare the output with practitioner knowledge and identify unclear assumptions.
Decide
Refine, expand, move into deeper assessment—or stop based on the evidence.
Current pilot offer: available at no cost in exchange for structured feedback. Setup can take less than one week once the locations and objective are confirmed.
Discuss a pilotWho it is for
Built for people allocating physical-security attention.
Locivra is most useful when one team is responsible for multiple sites and needs a consistent first-pass view.
Retail and loss prevention
Prioritize store reviews, security planning and deeper CPTED or operational assessment across a portfolio.
Property portfolios
Compare historical surrounding crime exposure as one input alongside professional due diligence and site review.
Security consultants
Use a transparent first-pass screen to focus assessment effort and communicate portfolio priorities with clients.
Built by Alex Babb · Criminal Justice & Public Policy, University of Guelph · [email protected]
Start with a bounded test
Which locations should your team look at first?
Bring a portfolio of 5–20 Toronto locations and a real prioritization decision. We will scope a pilot around the evidence your team needs.
Discuss a Locivra pilot