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Chicago Police Force Wins CIO Magazine Award

Posted by timothy on from the you're-not-heavy-you're-a-citizen dept.

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."

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  1. Dropping crime rates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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!

  2. Re:Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Chicago Mafia by AtariAmarok · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  4. Blues Brothers are in trouble now... by NLG · · Score: 4, Funny
    Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.
    Jake: Hit it!

    ...Blues-Mobile gets pulled over...

    Elwood: I bet these cops got SCMODS.
    Jake: SCMODS?
    Elwood: State County Municipal Offender Data System.

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  5. Re:Correlation is not causation by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    But dude, there is a shitload of money and power to be derived from jumping to such conclusions.

    You aren't against money and power. . .are you?

    KFG