{ "id": "AIBD-0367", "title": "The Palantir-based DAR software identifies the author of an emailed amok threat against Siegen's city administration in fractions of a second and 51 of about 100 participants in a Duisburg shooting (28 October 2022)", "summary": "NRW Interior Ministry, 28 Oct 2022: Palantir-based DAR resolved an amok-threat email against Siegen's city administration in seconds and identified 51 of about 100 people at a Duisburg clan shooting.", "date_observed": "2022-10-28", "date_basis": "unassessed", "date_precision": "unassessed", "benefit_status": null, "source_collection": null, "source_entry": null, "account": "On 28 October 2022 North Rhine-Westphalia's (NRW) Interior Ministry said DAR, the police's Palantir software, was central in several recent cases (WELT; RP Online). In October someone had emailed the Siegen city administration announcing an amok attack. The threat was over the city's “topless” permission for swimming pools. The ministry said the email address revealed the suspect via Palantir in fractions of a second. A shooting in Duisburg-Hamborn between a Turkish-Arab clan and the Hells Angels injured four people. A Duisburg investigator said police quickly identified 51 of the roughly 100 participants, about 20 minutes each (RP Online; WELT). 49 of them were assigned to rival groups. Interior Minister Herbert Reul addressed the Landtag's interior committee on 27 October. He said DAR links the weapons register, residents' registration, the police case system and the wanted-persons portal. The ministry puts the 2019–2025 cost at about 39 million euros. The opposition attacks it on data-protection and cost grounds (WELT).", "category": "benefit created", "unexpected": false, "purpose": "DAR was procured to let North Rhine-Westphalia police search and link entries across police and administrative databases during investigations. Identifying suspects from an email address or from a nickname and phone number was that purpose.", "system": "DAR (Datenbankübergreifende Recherche und Analyse), Palantir software used by North Rhine-Westphalia police", "model_version": null, "developer": "Palantir Technologies", "deployer": "North Rhine-Westphalia police, under the NRW Ministry of the Interior (contract since 2019)", "location": "Siegen, Germany", "domain": "Policing / criminal investigation", "segment": "Cross-database analysis for state police", "benefit_type": "Improved Knowledge Discovery", "taxonomy_note": null, "registry_ids": { "oecd_aim": "2022-10-28-8649" }, "ratings": [ { "group": "organizational", "depth": 2, "reason": "NRW police resolved an amok-threat email address to a person in fractions of a second. They identified 51 of about 100 shooting participants at about 20 minutes each, per the ministry and a Duisburg investigator. No comparison with conventional methods and no charges or convictions are reported." }, { "group": "societal", "depth": null, "reason": "Siegen's administration and public had the author of a threatened amok attack identified. The sources do not say whether the threat was credible, whether the person was charged, or what harm was averted." } ], "ai_role": { "status": "assessed", "statement": "The reports describe DAR as software that links entries across the weapons register, residents' registration data, the police case system and the wanted-persons portal. None mentions machine learning. The minister himself describes plain linking, while the OECD AI Incidents Monitor calls it an AI system. On the ministry's account the software's contribution was speed of identification. That was an email address in fractions of a second and about 20 minutes per shooting participant. Whether manual queries would have reached the same people more slowly is not addressed. The claims come from the deploying ministry and an unnamed investigator." }, "evidence": [ { "kind": "news report", "citation": "WELT (2022). Ministerium: «Palantir» klärte unter anderem Amokdrohung auf. WELT, 28 October 2022.", "title": "Ministerium: «Palantir» klärte unter anderem Amokdrohung auf", "url": "https://www.welt.de/regionales/nrw/article241830977/Ministerium-Palantir-klaerte-unter-anderem-Amokdrohung-auf.html", "date": "2022-10-28", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "Die E-Mail-Adresse habe via «Palantir» in Sekundenbruchteilen die verdächtige Person enthüllt, hieß es aus dem Innenministerium." }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Corman T, Triesch A (2022). Düsseldorf: „Palantir“ klärt Amokdrohung und Schießerei in Duisburg auf. RP Online, 28 October 2022.", "title": "Düsseldorf: „Palantir“ klärt Amokdrohung und Schießerei in Duisburg auf", "url": "https://rp-online.de/nrw/panorama/duesseldorf-palantir-klaert-amokdrohung-und-schiesserei-in-duisburg-auf_aid-79054087", "date": "2022-10-28", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "Wie ein Duisburger Ermittler sagte, konnte man schnell 51 der rund 100 Beteiligten identifizieren." }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Westfalenpost (2022). Siegen: Amokdrohung gegen Stadtverwaltung. WP.de, 28 October 2022.", "title": "Siegen: Amokdrohung gegen Stadtverwaltung", "url": "https://www.wp.de/staedte/siegerland/article236775413/Siegen-Amokdrohung-gegen-Stadtverwaltung.html", "date": "2022-10-28", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "Die Stadtverwaltung gerät in den Fokus eines Verdächtigen. Er schickt eine Amokdrohung." }, { "kind": "registry label", "citation": "OECD.AI (2022). AI System 'Palantir' Enables Rapid Suspect Identification in NRW Police Investigations. 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