Sunday, December 26, 2010

Data-Driven Crime Fighting -- Information Management -- InformationWeek

Data-Driven Crime Fighting -- Information Management -- InformationWeek

If there was a time when law enforcement agencies suffered from an information deficit, it's passed. Of the more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States, the vast majority has some form of technology for collecting crime-related data in digital form. The biggest city agencies have sophisticated data warehouses, and even the most provincial are database savvy.