By better characterizing crime trends and patterns to predict where crime was likely to occur, the police department could anticipate criminal activity and proactively place their resources.

We started to do some interesting things, like linking crimes and motives using advanced statistics and modeling for investigative support.

Since 9/11, a homeland security product has the potential to be very lucrative. I know people in the business community are thrilled with data mining and how it works, but this stuff has such tremendous potential for public safety analysis.

If we discovered a crime involving a police officer, we wouldn't investigate it ourselves, we'd hand it off.

There was police cars everywhere, detectives cars everywhere, there was crime scene tape around this. And for somebody to do this to her, it just an outrage, really.

The police met with our group and they said crime and drug dealing is way down. It's unbelievable.