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D.C. Police Database Wiped Out by Power Outage

Freeman Klopott and Bill Myers write on Examiner.com:

District of Columbia police lost track of at least four years’ worth of criminal evidence after a power outage wiped out a computer database, The Examiner has learned.

Police ­Chief Cathy Lanier said the collapse of the computer database caused no permanent damage because the department has millions of paper files in its evidence warehouse to back up the digital system.

Teams of technicians are manually entering the log books into a restored hard drive to reconstruct the lost evidence files, the chief said.

Lanier said she has inherited many of her problems. The evidence database that collapsed, she said, was at least five years out of date.

posted by Fergie @ 1/09/2008 11:59:00 AM