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SFPD outlines plan to migrate crime-mapping in-house and publish neighborhood reports by summer

San Francisco Police Commission · May 7, 2008
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Summary

The department told the commission it is moving its crime-mapping import process in-house, upgrading software and auditing data to produce automated neighborhood reports and a public feed (initially CAD data) to a third-party site; officials said they expect an audit complete and phased public launch in June.

Department technology leaders told the Police Commission on May 7 that they are re-architecting crime-mapping systems and adding a dashboard to produce neighborhood-level crime reports more quickly.

Mark Rinkel, the department’s civilian CIO, described a legacy system that had been hosted externally and had performance and import problems. "Some of the outcomes of that audit ... was basically a migration to move the import process…

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