Comment Re:But how good is it? (Score 2, Insightful) 300
> How many of those would have been solved
> without the program? I'd like to see a
> head-to-head, although I assume most
> police forces don't have the manpower to
> devote 2 seperate teams to the same
> crimes.
I don't think an increase in the proportion of crimes solved is neccesarily the goal. The goal is to solve crimes more quickly. After all, this is just a more sophisticated version of the pegboard shown on every cop show.
Faster solutions to serial murder and rape cases mean fewer victims, which is a good thing. They also mean that the same detectives can solve more crimes in a year, even if the rate of closed cases stays the same. So this software makes a city safer, and makes its police more efficiant; even if the proportion ofr crimes solved remains the same.
> without the program? I'd like to see a
> head-to-head, although I assume most
> police forces don't have the manpower to
> devote 2 seperate teams to the same
> crimes.
I don't think an increase in the proportion of crimes solved is neccesarily the goal. The goal is to solve crimes more quickly. After all, this is just a more sophisticated version of the pegboard shown on every cop show.
Faster solutions to serial murder and rape cases mean fewer victims, which is a good thing. They also mean that the same detectives can solve more crimes in a year, even if the rate of closed cases stays the same. So this software makes a city safer, and makes its police more efficiant; even if the proportion ofr crimes solved remains the same.
