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Information Management in Criminal Justice. Is Yours Efficient?
Ed Claughton, President PRI Management Group Print PDF Recently I flew on Silver Airways, an airline I had never heard of. With only a couple of routes out of South Florida it’s a small airline yet, incredibly efficient. They had the only flight left to where I...
read moreCalifornia Legislature passes major police transparency measures on internal investigations and body cameras
By LIAM DILLON LA Times SEP 01, 2018 | 3:25 PM | SACRAMENTO Endorsing a dramatic departure from decades of secrecy surrounding policing in the state, California lawmakers have moved to undo some of the nation’s strictest rules keeping law enforcement...
read moreMinneapolis growing records backlog
By Libor Jany Star Tribune SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 The Minneapolis Police Department’s records office is weeks behind in processing public-records requests, creating a backlog that is being blamed on staffing shortages and the growing pains of implementing a new computer...
read moreBain, Vista Equity to Combine Trio of Public Safety Companies
? Kiel Porter, Bloomberg Bain Capital and Vista Equity Partners are forming a new government-services software conglomerate via a three-way merger among companies they own. Superion, which Vista acquired for $850 million last year, is combining with TriTech Software...
read moreBaltimore’s police department is a technological disaster
SEAN GALLAGHER - 6/29/2018, 7:45 AM arsTechnica As part of the consent decree reached in the Justice Department investigation that followed the death of Freddie Gray and the ensuing unrest, an assessment team from the National Police Foundation recently completed a...
read moreTech Projects: planning ahead with the right people in place
Edward Claughton, President PRI Management Group July 2018 print PDF It's 2018 and yet another tech revolution is upon us. The question is will law enforcement make the changes necessary to traverse it correctly. It is astonishing how many police agencies are to this...
read moreReporting inconsistencies make city-to-city crime comparisons tricky
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - You may have seen an article in USA Today that ranked South Bend as one of the 50 worst cities to live in. We shared that article Wednesday and later took it down after the mayor's office reached out to us disputing the use of FBI crime data...
read more2018 IACP Technology Conference in review
2018 IACP Tech Conference in Review Another IACP Technology Conference down (formerly known as LEIM), this one in Providence, RI. PRI met some great agencies and vendors, and some not so great vendors (more on that in a minute). This year's event had a large focus...
read morePRI Audit of Tallahassee Police UCR Data
Tallahassee Democrat Karl Etters May 18, 2018 An audit of the Tallahassee Police Department's crime stats –...
read morePittsburgh police purchase new systems and never implements them
Publicsource.org Jeffrey Benzing and J. Dale Shoemaker | March 21, 2018 Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert confirmed Wednesday for the first time that three police software systems the city paid for have never been implemented. Those systems are the same ones...
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