What’s New in the Spring Release?

Expanded Crimes Against Society Scores

Our Crimes Against Society scores continue to expand and they’re becoming an increasingly valuable part of a complete risk strategy.

These scores capture offenses that signal broader environmental and behavioral risk factors within a community. While they may not always be the headline-grabbing crimes, they often provide important early indicators of instability, disorder, and emerging exposure trends.

By incorporating Crimes Against Society into your analysis, you gain:

• A more comprehensive view of community conditions
• Greater insight into environmental risk signals
• Stronger context for underwriting, site selection, and portfolio management
• Earlier visibility into patterns that may influence future loss potential

If your last score update was Spring 2025, your dataset does not include Crimes Against Society scores so you may be missing an important layer of insight.

Greater Accuracy in Suburban & Rural Areas
As we receive data from more agencies across the country, our geographic precision continues to improve, especially in suburban and rural areas where consistent reporting can be more challenging to obtain.

More agency participation means stronger coverage, increased accuracy, and more confidence in the scores you rely on.

Updated Crime Industry Benchmark Analyses (CIBA)

All Crime Industry Benchmark Analyses (CIBA) will be refreshed with the new scores.

What’s a CIBA?
Using our extensive national crime dataset and address-level industry classifications, we calculate crime risk scores for every business location in the country and group them by industry. The resulting analysis shows the average crime risk profile for each type of location across all four of our scoring methodologies.

Why use a CIBA?

Because context matters.

A CIBA allows you to:

• Compare your locations against industry averages…“How does risk in my convenience stores compare to others?”
• Quickly identify locations that are above or below typical industry risk levels
• Strengthen underwriting and site strategy
• Bring data-driven benchmarks into executive discussions especially when reviewing strategy and budgeting

Stay Ahead of Changing Risk

Risk is constantly evolving — and the organizations that perform best are the ones working with the most current information available.

Our Spring Score Updates deliver expanded coverage, stronger geographic accuracy, enhanced Crimes Against Society insight, and fully refreshed industry benchmarks. It’s designed to give you a clearer, more complete view of today’s risk landscape — so you can act with confidence.

If you haven’t updated recently, now is the time.

Connect with a CAP Index risk expert to review your current scores, explore biannual update discounts, and make sure your organization is positioned with the most up-to-date intelligence available.

Let’s make sure you’re planning for  today’s risk — not yesterday’s.