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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. Re:Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Excellent troll, sir! Not only did you get modded up, you got a boatload of biters taking you seriously, despite your obvious nonsense.

    Well done!

  2. The tools always fall into the wrong hands by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Show me a police database that has not been abused and I'll show you one that does not yet exist.

  3. They paid too much... by sheapshearer · · Score: 0, Troll

    It took $45 million ... with the help of Oracle

    Couldn't they have done it cheaper using MySQL (even if it is not free for commercial use)??

  4. We live in the land of stats for politicians... by reynolds_john · · Score: 0, Troll

    The bottom line is, are they measuring the crime the same as before? If they are, then great, but if not....

    Harken to the Bush administration stating that unemployment remains low, but they also changed the way the statistics were gathered and reported - which suits their political agenda rather nicely.

    look here and at PBS for an example.