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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.”
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.”
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…”
Mark43 cannot legally auto-merge police records due to audit trail requirements
“Legally we as Mark 43 cannot merge those records ourselves. We have to allow a law enforcement official to do that because each piece of data entered into the system must have an audit trail that can track back to them so that this can go to court.”