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Modernizing the Nation’s Crime Statistics Program
PRI Management Group is pleased to announce our invitation to participate in a national panel convened by the National Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to develop a...
Report: Campus crime statistics are misleading
BY COLLIN BINKLEY AND JILL RIEPENHOFF COLUMBUS DISPATCH COLUMBUS — The crime statistics being released by colleges nationwide on Wednesday are so misleading that they give students and parents a false sense of security, an examination has found. Even the U.S....
20 get out of jail free after new Dallas County RMS debuts
Tristan Hallman Dallas Morning News The cost of a new Dallas police records management system: $4 million. The cost of getting out of jail for inmates whose records sputtered in that system: free. Police revealed Wednesday the names of more than 20 inmates — some...
Issues persist two years after audit of SF police data collection system
The Examiner By Jonah Owen Lamb How many people were robbed or assaulted in San Francisco last month? How many burglaries and shootings occurred in, say, February? Answers to such questions can be found on the Police Department's website, where monthly crime...
Records issue: Oak Ridge Police Dept. decertified by TBI
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) annual crime report included the de-certification of eight law enforcement agencies in the state for failing to report crime data to the agency for three months. Oak Ridge Police Department is on that list, but...
PRI owner, Ed Claughton, in Gov’t Technology Magazine
A Houston Chronicle article, printed in Technology Magazine, about the Houston Police Department's outdated records management system and how it contributed to failures in homicide investigations includes input from PRI Management Group owner Ed Claughton. Read the...
Antiquated computer system a key factor in lost cases, chief says
By Mike Tolson and James Pinkerton Houston Chronicle May 31, 2014 When asked how the police department of one of the nation's largest cities could simply lose track of almost two dozen homicide cases, its chief pointed first to a bad detective and those supervising...
“What’s Really Going On With Crime Rates” PRI featured in Police Magazine
Dean Scoville Police Magazine "Ethics." The emphasis placed on the subject and its inclusion as part of many a law enforcement academy's curriculum is understandable; our profession seeks to bolster a character trait that, in theory, already inhabits its men and...
Leadership in law enforcement (and technology) still an issue
Ed Claughton August 2013 In a recent edition of The Records Room I mentioned an article about a failed police technology project in Pennsylvania in which the Chief displayed utter disregard for the concerns of his police officers. Granted, maybe there's more to the...
Baltimore Police spot error in counting city rape statistics
By Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun9:30 p.m. EDT, April 18, 2013 Baltimore police have been under reporting the number of rapes across the city this year, but officials described the problem as a data error and stressed that it did not affect the number of cases being...