'Criminal Justice IQ Trainwrecks' Category
I shot the Sheriff (but I didn’t update the warrants database)
The headline doesn’t scan as well as the original Bob Marley lyric, but that jarring dischord is nothing compared to the problems with the PNC (Police National Computer) in the UK.
A review is underway of the processes used to update the PNC database across the UK covering the “national process and practice for withdrawing warrants, […]What’s in a number?
From the ever vigilant The Register comes a story of a man who was detained by authorities for 50 days due to an error on the part of his ISP in identifying who had used a particular IP address to upload satirical images of a revered Indian (as in sub-continent, not Native American) leader of […]
Cumbrian Train Crash—Poor IQ Management implicated
According to a report in the Guardian of 2007-08-27 the Cumbrian rail crash in Febuary 2007 that killed one person and injured many others had an Information Quality component which was the final link in the causal chain:
Alongside concerns over the points, the study’s focus will be a breakdown in communications among Network Rail’s Cumbria […]What’s in a name?
The Irish national broadcaster RTE has this story on their website this morning…
The wrong prisoner was let out of one of Ireland’s main prisons yesterday because he had the same name as another prisoner who was due for release. It seems that there were two Mark Kennys in the prison, one serving a short sentence […]
