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Chicago Police Force Wins CIO Magazine Award
Roland Piquepaille writes "The Chicago Police Department (CPD) is the sole winner of the 2004 Grand CIO Enterprise Value Award for its data warehouse and application suite. In Taking IT to the Street, the magazine writes that Chicago police officers have an immediate access to more than to 200 GB of data and nearly 8.5 million records of arrests and other incidents. It took $45 million and 3 years to the CPD to build this database with the help of Oracle, but the return on investment is huge, with labor savings of $88 million from 2001 through 2003. And while the national crime rate rose 2 percent from 2000 to 2001, Chicago rates have dropped 16 percent in the last three years. So all this information can and does prevent crime and save lives, but in Police Power Coming Up Behind You, the author reports he is somewhat worried that all these tools could fall into wrong hands. This overview contains selected excerpts and comments about this long article."
I'm sure Oracle built this system for free and the system uses DB2..
"Chicago rates have dropped 16 percent in the last three years."
Yes. Now that they have such a great database, each year they run the
"crimetotals == crimetotals * 0.84"
algorithm. Brings crimes stats down real good!
This situation doesn't occur in Chicago anymore. They banned handguns a while back, so the criminals don't carry them anymore. The police force found no need to carry weapons anymore because of the unarmed outlaws. There are no guns at all in Chicago.
There are no guns at all in Chicago
I know. It's kind of interesting. The Chicago mafia actually has violins in their violin cases these days, ever since the government banned tommy guns. Gang battles resemble "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" now.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
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Ok if the crime rate has dropped for Chicago, I am not so sure the database was the reason for it.
It's great achievement yes. But to say Joe Smoe didn't commit a crime because he feared a 200GB oracle db, that's just silly.
Touchscreen is the only way to go. These are police officers
These are police officers.... How well do touch-screens work once grubby cop fingers cover them with smears of donut glaze?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
"I got up early today and it didn't rain. So does that mean that rain is caused by me sleeping late?"
Probably. I got up late today and it did rain
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They didn't have such a base already? Damn, on every movie when police or FBI are tracking someone they use such a base, and you tell me it did not exist?
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paper clips, the little umbrellas that get put in tropical drinks
Only if you're talking about Jackie Chan.
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Jake: Hit it!
Elwood: I bet these cops got SCMODS.
Jake: SCMODS?
Elwood: State County Municipal Offender Data System.
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your.opinion >
Jake - "What's scmods?"
Elwood - "State County Municipal Offender Data System"
But dude, there is a shitload of money and power to be derived from jumping to such conclusions.
.are you?
You aren't against money and power. .
KFG
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Jake: 'Scmods?' What is that some new kind of VD?
Elwood: State County Municipal Offender Data System.
Elwood: I bet these cops got SCMODS.
Jake: SCMODS?
Elwood: State County Municipal Offender Data System.