Chicago Law Enforcement Database Cited for Decrease in Crime

Taking IT to the Street – “How the Chicago Police Department used technology
to fight crime and become the first Grand CIO Enterprise Value Award winner.” [Slashdot]

  • “The CLEAR (Citizen Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting) database, deployed in April 2000 and now topping 200GB, is the foundation for a growing set of integrated CLEAR applications used by all of the department’s 13,600 officers and most of its 3,000 civilians, plus an exponentially expanding base of users outside the city limits…in the past three years—the period CLEAR has been operating—Chicago [crime] rates have dropped 16 percent…”
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