Geoprofiling Moves Into The Limelight

circletimessquare writes "Interesting and timely. A short piece at CNN talks about the software helping to track down the sniper currently terrorizing the Washington DC area. It was the doctoral thesis of a cop, Kim Rossmo, who developed it while walking the beat in Vancouver and reading about the hunting patterns of African lions. Googling, I found an older but deeper piece which mentions more of the tech behind the software, called Rigel. That led me to the website of ECRI, the company that makes Rigel. More good tech there."

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another reichstagg fire event

[Anonymous Coward]

--this is yet again another reichstagg fire type political event. Support was dropping rapidly in dc for the iraq invasion, ditto in the population in general. congressional offices are getting almost all over 90% opposition to invasion. Solution? Show scared congress critters that no one is safe anywhere. show the population they are vulnerable, even the children, to "inspire terror". Now all they need is to assign "official blame". Random shootings in the nations capital, not out in the heartland anywhere, nope, downtown seat 0 power. What an amazing coincidence the week before the iraqi war debates in congress. Any congressperson is now gonna think twice about voting "no" on invasion or anything else the fascist faction wants. It's the small but powerful fascist faction doing it, using either a mind controlled drugged out zombie or a true believer/hired mercenary and or under "orders". That's my guess. sieg heil no questions asked order followers. The other possibilites, IMO, are way down the list. Another tim mcveigh fairy tale half truth half lie setup is coming.