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Police officers might be forced to dig out their notes and re-create parts of a week's worth or more of reports on crime and traffic crashes after the department's computer system crashed.

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PaganGodess
Oct. 1, 2006, 10:05 p.m.
{{"The rumor is he entered something or erased records, but he didn't. He had no ability to do that,"}}
Last time I heard a story like that was from a local store where I purchased eyeglasses. The supervisor told me that there was NO WAY an employee of theirs could have used my credit card fradulently to purchase pornographic videos. This was a card that had not been used in 3 months AND the charge came just 3 weeks AFTER I made my purchase.
At what price do employers continue to back their employees?
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dtress1d
Oct. 2, 2006, 8:55 a.m.
It is a shame that they don't do proper back-ups of their data files.
Normally, files are backed up at least once a day.
For on-line real-time files, even more often!
So, why do they have to go back about a week?
Maybe this was a political appointee, or at least someone in charge who does not know proper IT procedures!
Was anyone fired, or at least put on administrative leave, without pay?
What is the city doing to prevent this happening again?
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Bobcat6
Oct. 2, 2006, 11:48 a.m.
"Lost the records" huh? That sounds mighty suspicious to me. Have those hackers struck again? Those ones who have been stealing info from banks and the VA lately. Who's next? The FBI? CIA? That's all we need.
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moeberg
Oct. 2, 2006, 11:56 a.m.
When the St. Louis law discovered what happened, just try to imagine the profanity.
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Hobe
Oct. 2, 2006, 1:55 p.m.
The Police will have No trouble at all recreating the records, they can MAKE UP anything the want on their reports and they often do. As long as it fits their story?
The out-of-balance Police officers can stop You anytime they want and You have no choice but to comply. They can Make up any story and their fellow Officers will back them up everytime unless their is a vedio.
Look at the price Rodney King had to pay, he really deserved that beating by those Luna-Tic Police Officers didn't he?
The BLUE WALL OF 'S---' Lives ON and the Public Pays the Price.
Sincerely,
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spkguy
Oct. 2, 2006, 2:33 p.m.
Yee who laughs last, probably made a backup!