Mitigation comes in many flavors, but using GIS to work on any of them is almost standard these days. GIS supports Risk Assessment, problem depiction, modeling, spatial statistics (helping your find what is meaningful in your data), and most of all – communicating your results to those that can affect outcomes.

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Crawl Mitigation begins with paper mapping, pattern detection and conversation. Anything you are trying to mitigate needs to be understood first – crime, medical call load, wildfire risk, assets at risk, people in flood plains, or economic impact of natural disasters. Using your agency data, plotting locations of things that contribute to the risk, and printing a simple map that you can discuss with your collegues is a great start. Soon enough, solutions and strategies emerge, and your plan can be mapped too. Over time, tracking your mitigation efforts, the costs involved, and the results becomes a powerful tool for the organization.	Walk The next step in the mitigation efforts using GIS is to link your internal data (Records Management Systems, fuels data, inspections, etc) to the GIS. A GIS analyst can work with you to enable this connection. Then the Analysts can automate the analysis you have been doing to understand the problems and depict the results visually. These analytical connections, layers, and its automation should flow into a web-based mapping solution that can function as a ‘dashboard’ for the agency, policy makers, and ultimately transparency in the community.	Run Expanding the integration of Agency data that contributes to mitigation is an important step. Some agencies implement GIS by acquiring a singe application to address a specific mitigation need – but inderstanding the short and long range needs allows to you expand your mitigation effort within a single platform. The Public Safety mission is complex, as is the information technology environment in which it operates. Planning mitigation efforts with an eye toward system integration allows you to partner, plan and execute prevention and mitigation analysis much more effectively that thinking of these efforts individually.
Example: Search Mitigation at ArcGIS Online	Example: Search Mitigation at ArcGIS Online	Example: Search Mitigation at ArcGIS Online

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