>>>>>>I've been beating the drum about "repeat offenders" for the past three or four years. I think we may be making some headway now...
>>>>>>http://tinyurl.com/abfdcl
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>>>>>Excellent!
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>>>>>But..Aren't those repeat offenders (solid part of the democratic fan base) just victims of society? Shouldn't they be given money and other free stuff so they don't feel like outcasts from society? Maybe they need a stimulus packege..?
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>>>>I think we are supposed to get several million in bailout money. So, I guess you could say they will get a stimulus once we get SKYNET up and running!
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>>>Did you get the NY Times article I emailed you the other day? (For the benefit of others, it was about the increased efforts by police departments with the internet).
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>>Yes, I did Mike. I just have been so busy giving interviews.... Haha, actually, I've been "busier than a ...." Our RTCC is better than NYCs because they don't take a report on everything, and they are still using paper reporting for everything except homicides. Our reports are taken on a pda/notebook in the field and pushed upstream, so I get the reports within minutes of the report being entered. We update our crime ticker with that data every 10 minutes, so the public can see what's happening.
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>Great job! I know your heart is in it and have no doubt the software is making a difference. Just one negative question -- do you worry about false vigilantism? i.e. plugged-in citizens attacking or killing a presumed perpetrator who did not in fact do it?

Not really. You can't control every facet of society, so that could happen. We call it "collateral damage". We will control what we can, and deal with the rest, as it occurs. I don't know what else we could do.