Criminal Activity

Tisane logs instances of detected criminal activity under the abuse section, with the type attribute set to criminal_activity.

What We Detect

We identify and flag text related to:

Planning and coordination of transportation, distribution, and manufacturing of illicit items such as narcotics, arms, explosives, and poached wildlife.
Human trafficking and the sale of human organs.
Inquiries and instructions on creating, manufacturing, distributing, or operating weapons (including chemical and biological weapons), narcotics, and explosives.
Threats of violence and criminal activity.
Searches for restricted items, For example: Firearms, ammunition, explosive precursors). To analyze search queries, set the format parameter to search.

The criminal activity type does not capture conversations about crime committed by someone else or allegations. The purpose of the criminal_activity type is to capture either crime in progress or admission of criminal activity. To capture conversations about crime, use topic extraction. See: Topic Extraction. To capture allegations about someone else committing crimes, see: Allegations
As the legislation varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, inspect tags to determine if the instance is to be ignored. For example, cannabis or soft_drug may be used to ignore the references to use of marijuana.

Example

Request:

{
	"language":"en",
	"content":"we sell elephant tusks. Great prices and top notch quality!", 
	"settings": 
  {
	 "snippets":true
  }
}

Response:

{
	"text": "we sell elephant tusks. Great prices and top notch quality!",
	"abuse": [
		{
			"sentence_index": 0,
			"offset": 0,
			"length": 23,
			"text": "we sell elephant tusks.",
			"type": "criminal_activity",
			"severity": "high",
			"tags": [
				"for_sale",
				"wildlife"
			]
		}
	]
}

Relevant Tags

The tags array may contain the following tags.

Crimes

bodily_harm
bribery
call_for_violence
crime
death
doxing
escape (correctional institutions)
extortion
hacking_services
human_trafficking
money_laundering
organized_crime
organ_trade
pedophilia
piracy
scam
tax_evasion
terrorism
threat
violence
wildlife (poaching)

Controlled Substances

controlled_substance
soft_drug
cannabis
khat
hard_drug
cocaine
ecstasy
hallucinogen
heroin
meth
medication
opioid

Other Restricted Items

cold_weapons
explosives
firearms
weapon
contraband (depends on the context)

Miscellaneous

admission - admission in a crime
credentials
cryptocurrency
debt
payment

Relevant Entity types

item_of_interest entity type detects items potentially of interest to the investigation: luxury items, drugs, medications, vehicles.

Offline and Law Enforcement Use

Law enforcement applications often have to operate in air-gapped environments. To accommodate this need, Tisane Embedded is available. Tisane Embedded allows running Tisane as an in-process library. On-prem installations are are available as well.