Vice President, Geospatial Crime Solutions
CAP Index
Dr. Grant Drawve is Vice President of Geospatial Crime Solutions at CAP Index, specializing in the intersection of criminology and geospatial analytics. With over a decade of experience and 50+ publications, his work focuses on how place shapes crime and how organizations can use that insight to better understand and manage risk across locations.
Tuesday Jun 9
11:00am - 11:30am
Exhibitor Big Ideas Stage
The threat has changed. ORC crews plan like logistics companies, exploit location-specific vulnerabilities, and move across markets faster than traditional incident reporting can track them. The data LP teams have relied on — shrink reports, exception logs, national crime averages — doesn't see any of that coming.
Location intelligence does.
This session brings together leading researchers, data scientists, and practitioners to examine how geospatial analysis is transforming LP from a reactive discipline into a predictive one. Drawing on the LPRC's SaferPlaces initiative, CAP Index crime modeling, and real-world GIS deployments, panelists will explore how spatial data exposes the environmental factors driving store-level risk — factors that never appear in a shrink report but that ORC crews assess before every attack.
Attendees will leave with a framework for evaluating location-specific risk across their portfolio, an understanding of the data infrastructure required to operationalize that intelligence, and examples of retailers already using these tools to get ahead of the threat.
