Politech: FC: Computer system tells cops to arrest innocent people

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 15:33:45 -0500 (EST)
> From: "K. M. Ellis" <protozoa () tux org>
> To: <declan () well com>
> Subject: Computer system tells cops to arrest innocent people (fwd)
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/000118-000020.html
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> Computer system tells cops to arrest innocent people
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> "Providence, Rhode Island police were forced to stop arresting people
> because their shiny new law enforcement network system was telling them to
> grab innocent people. According to the Providence Journal when the new
> system went operational police found it had caused them to arrest eight
> people by mistake."

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