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Minneapolis 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...
Bain, 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...
Baltimore’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...
Tech 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...
Reporting 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...
2018 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...
PRI Audit of Tallahassee Police UCR Data
Tallahassee Democrat Karl Etters May 18, 2018 An audit of the Tallahassee Police Department's crime stats –...
Pittsburgh 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...
Does your prosecutors’ office require the “original”?
Edward Claughton, President PRI Management Group March 2018 Print .PDF Arrest forms. Booking records. Statements. Bonds. Affidavits. It's time our prosecutors' offices get with the times and start accepting electronic records. Across the country our court systems are...
Denver police acknowledge errors with 1,000 crime reports, prompting internal investigation
By NOELLE PHILLIPS | [email protected] | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: January 23, 2018 at 7:46 pm | UPDATED: January 24, 2018 at 2:21 pm The Denver Police Department has discovered problems with 1,000 of its crime reports, prompting an investigation into who is...
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