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The New York City Police Department takes in millions of dollars in cash each year as evidence, often keeping the money through a procedure called civil forfeiture. But as New York City lawmakers pressed for greater transparency into how much was being seized and from whom, a department official claimed providing that information would be nearly impossible—because querying the 4-year old computer system that tracks evidence and property for the data would "lead to system crashes."
WTF kind of piece of utter shit computer system are they using? Sounds like Windows 95 with an Access database on it or something. Except that might actually be more reliable!
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[–] ForUs 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
They claim they can't enter cash amounts because that would make tracking police theft too easy.
[–] iamjanesleftnipple 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Building a scalable system like this is trivial. If it's failing its because it was designed to do so
[–] OriginalReaper 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
We can't keep track of all the money we're taking because making a system to track it costs took much money -Sent from my 2017 uparmored Tahoe
[–] iamjanesleftnipple ago
https://i.sli.mg/xGG3U6.jpg
[–] DickHertz 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Time for the state's AG to look into the problem.
[–] hunter3 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
[–] lord_nougat ago
WTF kind of piece of utter shit computer system are they using? Sounds like Windows 95 with an Access database on it or something. Except that might actually be more reliable!
[–] hunter3 ago
maybe it deals with how the store it