Scott Crouch, CEO of Mark43, notes that Washington D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier leads the police department of the largest city with female leadership.
Assertion Partly supported
Crouch: Dallas law enforcement software failure in 2014 lost offender records
“Dallas launched a new system in June of last year, And the whole system broke down to the point where they couldn't violate, ah, you know, parole pretty much offenders who basically got out of jail free because the system just lost their records entirely.”
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Crouch: San Antonio police system has 1.2M duplicate records out of 3M
“You look at San Antonio, Texas, right, their system out there, it probably has around three million people in their system. 1.2 million of those are duplicates.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Crouch: Processing a regular arrest takes over half a police shift
“It takes around maybe more than half your shift just to do a regular arrest.”
Prediction Partly held up
Crouch: Mark43 will launch across Washington, D.C. in summer 2015
“Really the first major group to grow on this system is all of Washington, D.C. This summer, and so that's not only the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department with 4000 officers, but an additional 11,000 agents across Secret Service, Park Police, Capitol Police, a…”
Assertion Supported
Crouch: 18,000 U.S. police departments operate on disparate data schemas
“There are 18,000 U.S. Police departments, and all of them have incredibly kind of different data schemas.”
Assertion Partly supported
Crouch: FBI's NCIC database receives around 8M daily law enforcement queries
“And that thing is actually hit by law enforcement officers around eight million times a day, just searching for people and places and things.”