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."

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Re:No paranoia involved

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

How strange, when something goes against the accepted way of thinking here on Slashdot, it's modded as troll. I'm not saying 911 wasn't horrible and grave, or that it was some conspiracy, but my opinion is that the US is overreacting to terrorist threat, or more precisely, isn't reacting properly. How's that a troll?