Crime A Google For Cops
Dubbed by its creator as “Google for law enforcement,” Coplink is really nothing more glamorous than computer code. It’s based on an achingly simple, but frustratingly elusive, premise: if the sundry databases used by crimefighters could talk to one another, the importance of seemingly inconsequential pieces of information would become more readily apparent. Had Coplink been up and running during last fall’s sniper investigation, it would have quickly flagged investigators to the multiple times that police had stopped John Muhammad and Lee Malvo near a shooting scene, say law-enforcement officials....