From what I understand 'civil forfeiture' is basically a legalised shakedown, the police can stop anyone and take whatever money they have. Canada actually issued a travel advisory over it ( https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140915/09500928521/canad... )
So is it really surprising there's zero records kept? In other news, the dog ate my homework!
Then they should stop seizing property until they can count the cash. I suspect the real reason involves a coverup.
A reasonable thing to do would to stop taking people's property until they have a system to account for its whereabouts.
I'm not saying that has any affect on reality, just that it would be a reasonable thing to do.
It is by no means an excuse for them, but having done some work in the government contractor sector, this is not an impossible scenario. However, the company that was contracted to build it should probably be forced to remedy that soon, or pay.
this sounds like stonewalling to me. maybe they weren't counting on the optics of the headline's phrasing sounding as charged as it does, but this reminds me strongly of, for instance, the FBI intentionally being obtuse in their processing of FOIA requests for sensitive subjects. they're not figuring out the numbers because the headline "$x hundred million seized by NYPD from citizens in 2015" sounds even worse.
Must be very convenient for the cops seizing the cash if nobody knows how much is supposed to be there.
Im currently working on a project for a large refined products company that is run by IBM. Its totally plausible that they created a bad solution. The last 3-4 projects Ive worked on were run by Big 4 consulting companies, and with each I've become more convinced that they are a drain on the economy.
If this were some ancient 20+ year old proprietary system that no one wanted to touch, I might buy it.
But a system built in 2012 can't provide a report on total cash seized? Honestly?
Honest question here... does anyone believe this explanation from the NYPD? I don't, and I find it hard to believe that anyone else does.
And I can't submit to a pat-down search due to my crippling social anxiety.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by an improperly tuned instance of DB2.
Prove it chumps. Let me see that database. It's so easy for them to lie its not even funny. Show me the money ... counting software.
> The system...was built on top of SAP's enterprise resource planning software platform and IBM's DB2 database by Capgemini in 2012, and was used as a flagship case study by the company.
That's just embarrassing.
All they have to say is "Change the column to (BIG INT) noob".
Technically speaking, that story about crashing the system is BULLSHIT.
Do they not have separate backups that can be queried?
Smile of the day.:)
"We're not corrupt, just incompetent"
Get external auditors to come in and look at the system. Unless the data is corrupt, there is a way of getting it into a useful and queryable form. It would be a shame for this investigation to quietly die because of prevarication from some gifted bureaucrats.