Law Enforcement

Every unsolved case your agency has, in one place, always free.

Solve the Case gives your department a public home for its cold cases, a tip system that keeps every tip accounted for, and investigative insights across your caseload. No contract, no invoice, no IT project. It all runs through the free Badge Apps account you may already have.

No Badge Apps account yet? Create one with your agency email. It takes a couple of minutes.

Step 1

Host every unsolved case in one place

Each case gets an organized page: photos, summary, timeline, locations, vehicles, the case number and the detective assigned. Every one of your agency's cases is gathered on a single agency page, so the public, the press and your own command staff can see the whole picture. If you want it on your own site, the same pages can be embedded there.

Add your first case Embed on our website

An agency page on Solve the Case listing an agency's unsolved cases

Every agency gets a page like this, automatically.

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Step 2

Get tips that are organized, accountable and triaged

Tips submitted on any of your case pages go straight into Badge Apps Tips, the tip management platform built for law enforcement. Nothing lands in a personal inbox or a voicemail that gets missed. Each tip is assigned to a detective, tracked to closure, and the tipster can be answered even when they stay anonymous. Theories and questions from the public are steered to the case discussion instead, so your queue only holds real information.

How Badge Apps Tips works

What your detectives get

One queue per agency, with every tip assigned, dated and tracked.
Anonymous tipsters get a reference code, so you can ask follow-up questions without knowing who they are.
A discovery-ready record of every tip and every response.
Case number and lead detective sync automatically between Badge Apps and the case page.
Tips for cases not yet on Solve the Case still reach you through your agency's tips page.

Step 3

Advanced investigative analytics

Cases look different when you can see them together. Our investigative insights help you understand patterns across your caseload, the connections between cases and people, and where attention is most likely to move a case forward. These tools are available to law enforcement only. Contact us and we will walk you through what they can do for your agency.

Available on request

Insights across all of your agency's unsolved cases, not one at a time.
Connections between people, places and vehicles that span cases.
A private walkthrough with our team before anything is turned on.

What it costs

Nothing. It is free for law enforcement, always.

Solve the Case is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. There is no license, no per-seat fee and no budget request. Everything on this page runs through your free Badge Apps account.

What does cost something

Not talking about your unsolved murders, missing persons, fugitives and unidentified persons. Cases that stay out of sight cost families and victims the vital clues that come in when a case is in front of the right set of eyes.