February 22, 2004
Chicago Police Department Wins Grand CIO Enterprise Value Award
CIO Magazine awards it's Grand CIO Enterprise Value Award to the Chicago Police Department. Why?
Officers have an immediate access to more than to 200 GB of data and nearly 8.5 million records of arrests and other incidents. It took $45 million and 3 years to the CPD to build this database with the help of Oracle, but the return on investment is huge, with labor savings of $88 million from 2001 through 2003.
Which led to "[...] workflow improvements enabled by CLEAR (Citizen Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting).
Accessing mug shots: From up to four days without CLEAR to four seconds with CLEAR.
Pulling a rap sheet: From four hours from request to receipt, down to seconds.
Logging in seized property and evidence: From three hours, down to one hour.
Checking offenders' prison status and release dates: From 30 minutes, down to one minute."
Read the article here for a lot of really nice details.
Amazing. But there's something errily disturbing about near-instant access to all this information.
Posted by Pramit Nairi at February 22, 2004 03:37 PM