Police Strategies

What Police Strategies does

Police Strategies LLC is a Seattle-based consulting and analytics firm that builds the Police Force Analysis System (PFAS), a SaaS platform for law enforcement agencies. The company ingests police incident and use-of-force reports and transforms them into structured data across more than 150 variables per incident, scored against the Graham v. Connor objective reasonableness standard that governs use-of-force adjudication in the United States. Output is delivered as interactive dashboards that support agency-level review, supervisory training, and interagency comparison, with additional public-facing transparency dashboards that allow communities to scrutinize departmental use-of-force patterns.

The platform is grounded in a codified methodology developed by the company's founders — a group that includes veteran police chiefs, attorneys specializing in use-of-force law, and a former data scientist from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Customers are municipal, county, and regional law enforcement agencies; named deployments include Dallas PD, San Jose PD, King County, and Vallejo PD, with the platform used by 100+ agencies across 8 states. Vallejo PD has publicly reported roughly a one-third reduction in use-of-force incidents following PFAS adoption in 2021, and Dallas PD funded its program via a $1.4M grant.

The business operates as a domain-expert SaaS and services hybrid. Pricing is per-agency, typically structured around implementation, data onboarding, and annual subscription; revenue is supported by a mix of departmental operating budgets and grant funding (such as federal or state use-of-force accountability programs). The company appears to be a small, founder-led organization of roughly 11-50 employees with no disclosed outside funding to date, and its growth is constrained primarily by the slow procurement cycles of municipal law enforcement rather than by product or technical limitations.

Name

Police Strategies

Legal name

Police Strategies LLC

Website

https://policestrategies.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Police Strategies LLC provides the Police Force Analysis System (PFAS), a SaaS analytics platform that scores police use-of-force incidents against Graham v. Connor standards. It serves 100+ law enforcement agencies across 8 states.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Law Enforcement Analytics Software

akta.pro primary industry

Security Consulting, Risk Assessment & Security Program Design (BPABAMAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Safety Compliance, Audits & Risk Assessments (Security Assessments, CPTED) (EDAEACAN)

Keywords

• Law enforcement analytics
• Use of force tracking
• Police accountability software
• Incident report analytics
• Early warning systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Bainbridge Island

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Police Force Analysis System Subscription: Subscription-based pricing model based on agency size and number of use of force reports to be coded. No need for agencies to invest in expensive IT systems or change existing forms or records management practices - PFAS can accept incident reports in any format.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Police Strategies sells a subscription-based SaaS analytics platform called the Police Force Analysis System℠ (PFAS) that converts law enforcement incident reports and officer statements into interactive dashboards. The platform performs risk assessment scoring under Graham v. Connor standards across 150+ variables per report, provides an early warning system for high-risk behavior, enables interagency benchmarking, and supports public-facing transparency dashboards for community engagement.

Product overview

Police Strategies LLC offers a single unified product: the Police Force Analysis System℠ (PFAS). The system transforms existing police incident reports and officer statements into interactive dashboards, serving as a strategic warning system to identify risk and develop effective solutions. PFAS currently has data from 100+ law enforcement agencies across 8 states, offering risk assessment under Graham v. Connor standards, analysis of 150+ variables per report, and interagency comparison capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Police Force Analysis System℠ (PFAS): A software program that transforms existing incident reports and officer statements into interactive dashboards providing strategic warning systems to identify risk and develop effective solutions for law enforcement agencies.

Products and services

• Police Force Analysis System℠ (PFAS) A subscription-based SaaS analytics platform for law enforcement agencies that transforms existing incident reports and officer statements into interactive dashboards. It performs risk assessment under Graham v. Connor Supreme Court standards, analyzes over 150 variables per report (officers, suspects, injuries, force techniques, weapons, time and location), generates an early warning system for high-risk officer behavior, enables interagency benchmarking across 100+ agencies, and supports public-facing transparency dashboards for community engagement.

Quantifiable outcome

• Vallejo PD's use of force dropped by 1/3 in 2021
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Mark43: Cloud-native public safety platform offering Records Management, Computer-Aided Dispatch, and analytics for police agencies. Competes for the same IT/analytics budget and is increasingly layering use-of-force and incident analytics that overlap with PFAS.
• Lexipol: Provides policies, training, and now wellness/analytics content to law enforcement and other public-safety agencies. Closely comparable because it sells evidence-based best-practice content and software to the same police-chief buyer, often alongside or competing with PFAS.
• SoundThinking: Public safety analytics company (formerly ShotSpotter) expanding from gunshot detection into broader policing analytics and resource deployment insights. Comparable as a data-driven public-safety SaaS vendor selling to similar municipal and police customers.
• CentralSquare Technologies: Public safety and public administration software suite serving thousands of agencies with CAD, RMS, and analytics. Competes for the same sheriff/police IT budgets and increasingly bundles analytics features that could substitute for PFAS.

Emerging players

• Palantir Technologies: Data analytics platform with government and law-enforcement deployments (Gotham, Foundry). Comparable as a high-end analytics vendor competing for the largest police data initiatives and federal policing contracts.
• Peregrine Technologies: Newer public-safety data platform providing real-time analytics and intelligence for law enforcement. Targets the same police chief buyer with a broader, more modern data infrastructure; an emerging direct competitor in agency analytics.

Broad incumbents

• NICE Public Safety (NICE Inform): Provides public safety recording, evidence, and analytics (NICE Inform) for 911, radio, and incident reconstruction. Competes for budget allocated to incident analytics and could expand into use-of-force analytics adjacent to its core call/audio analytics.
• Tyler Technologies: Large public-sector software provider serving courts, corrections, and public safety. Competes indirectly through broader government software bundles and could add use-of-force analytics as a module in its public-safety suite.
• Motorola Solutions: Owner of CommandCentral, Axon-adjacent public-safety suite, and now Lexipol. Competes broadly across CAD, RMS, body-worn cameras, and analytics; could bundle a PFAS-equivalent use-of-force analytics layer into its existing mega-contracts.
• Axon Enterprise: Dominant provider of body-worn cameras, evidence management, and increasingly AI-driven use-of-force analytics for law enforcement. Competes with PFAS in the analytics layer through its AI-powered Draft One and network products, while also serving as a potential integrator or acquirer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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