Best in Class 2007: New York City Police Department : Instant access to 35 billion public records helps the NYPD fight crime / Computerworld, 5 Mar 2007
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Thomas Hoffman
"Last year, robbers held up an Italian restaurant in New York at gunpoint. The thieves were masked and fled without leaving many clues. But one piece of information was enough for detectives to crack the case. Witnesses said one of the robbers had the word “sugar” tattooed on his neck. Using a new high-tech crime-solving system, New York City Police Department detectives entered the information into a database of tattooed criminals that helped them identify and arrest the suspect within hours." [2 pages]