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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...
Vancouver Police Hires PRI
By Katy Sword, Columbian staff writer Published: November 13, 2017, 6:01 AM The Vancouver Police Department is in the market for a new software program. Known as a records management system, the program in question manages police reports, police-related public records...
Transforming a police agency one record at a time
Edward Claughton, President PRI Management Group November 2017 Collaborative reform. Consent decrees. The need for these is often based on issues that run deep within and throughout the agency, not on isolated problems that are one dimensional. They are matters which...
Aurora asks for dismissal of lawsuit over officer records given to imprisoned felon
Hannah Leone Aurora Beacon-News September 27, 2017 The city of Aurora and its former records manager are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging they released personal information on seven officers to a gang associate imprisoned because of their police...
The RegJIN Project: a major RMS project gone wrong
Edward Claughton President, PRI Management Group September 2017 Print .PDF $12.6M spent. $6M over budget. 4 years late. 43 law enforcement agencies impacted. Decline in service to the public. And most importantly, officer and citizen safety called into question. ...
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