The FBI web page offers a piece on their efforts to upgrade the LAPD's homicide records.
In a room at a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) facility, thick binders—most filled with more than a thousand pages of paper—are stacked in boxes on and under tables and piled from floor to ceiling. Each binder represents a murder victim.
Dubbed “murder books” by the LAPD, they hold the contents of individual homicide investigations, from witness statements and crime scene photos to autopsy reports. The FBI is helping to turn these paper-only books into a digital homicide library that will benefit investigators as well as the families of victims.
The project will take nearly 5,000 murder books going back to 1990 and digitize them for use in a system that will be fully searchable so that LAPD detectives—as well as FBI analysts and investigators—will be able to cross-reference and compare information in every case, something not currently possible.
“Not only will this help solve cases,” said LAPD Det. Cheryl Nalls, who is administering the project, “it will bring healing to the families of victims.”
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/march/the-gangs-of-los-angeles-part-4-the-homicide-library/the-gangs-of-los-angeles-part-4-the-homicide-library?utm_campaign=email-Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=fbi-top-stories&utm_content=303272
Note: The above photos were released by the FBI.
Isn't it odd that so much that is involved in law enforcement is so far behind the times (e.g.., pre-computer era records wasting away in archives)?
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