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[–] hunter3 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

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."

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[–] 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!

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[–] hunter3 ago 

maybe it deals with how the store it