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.
Knowing what a lot of us know about "computers," they can get this together in (being nice) a week, leaving 5 3/4 months to compose their PR strategy dealing with the fallout.
That's just embarrassing.
I can't for a second believe that this is an accidental oversight. If this is truly a problem, then it is because one of the design requirements was to make this a problem. Either that, or it's a procedural thing, where the value of cash evidence is captured, but not in a way that the system expects for aggregations. That way, it can be retrieved, but only if you know how to do the secret dance.
They obviously have to have this information because they are required to split their funds with the Feds. They just don't want to make it widely available.
I'm not saying that has any affect on reality, just that it would be a reasonable thing to do.
Anything else is theft by taking
>It's entirely possible that PETS, which allows for automating intake of evidence, may be so complex in its database configuration that producing the data sought by the bill would require major revisions to the multi-million dollar system. However, the NYPD has also invested heavily in an IBM DB2 data warehouse operation with the help of IBM Professional Services, so in theory they should be able to perform much of the analytics off-line without "crashing" the PETS system—with a little more consulting help.
So is it really surprising there's zero records kept? In other news, the dog ate my homework!
But a system built in 2012 can't provide a report on total cash seized? Honestly?
