Operation Ice Melt was conducted by dozens of police officers and federal agents with arrest warrants for about 40 members of Kansas City’s most violent groups of criminals, which officials said has been responsible for “multiple homicides” as well as numerous aggravated assaults, robberies and other crimes.

At the core of the effort is the work of University of Missouri-Kansas City professors who use police information and sophisticated social mapping software to identify connections between individuals involved in criminal activity. Read more.