September 2016 – The City of Indianapolis/Marion County has selected Charles F. Day & Associates LLC (CFDay) to configure an initial synthetic model of the Indianapolis Criminal Justice system on our Reference World (RW) platform for conducting simulations of policies injected to affect various decision points of the Criminal Justice system workflows. RW uses an agent-based approach wherein the agents are established to represent the demographics of the city of Indianapolis/Marion County area.

Reference World will allow the City of Indianapolis/Marion County to run scenarios including performing specific actions and/or implementing policies to determine which combination of actions and policies are effective at increasing public safety and improve the social outcome associated with the criminal justice system as well as those that are ineffective. Read more about the Criminal Justice Reform Task Force here: https://my.indy.gov/activity/criminal-justice-reform-task-force