Word: scorecard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Safir, intrigued by Scorecard (named for its creator's favorite pastime, keeping baseball statistics), rented an office in San Francisco's Federal Building and assigned Wutrich to teach two dozen other investigators to use the system. Working at 15 terminals tied to an Altos 3068 computer, they fed in data about each fugitive from interviews, rap sheets and computerized files from the FBI, DEA and other government agencies. They learned to query for patterns and to dispatch tips to the field task forces. Investigators who had spent their careers exchanging information via slow, spotty teletypes became born-again high-tech...
...computer terminology, Scorecard is a "relational data base," a powerful filing and retrieval program that can not only search for clues but ferret out relations or links between those clues. In a complicated case involving operations in several cities, Scorecard can quickly identify a suspect's contacts and associates. Says Wutrich: "Our system even makes suggestions on where a fugitive might be or who is the strongest person to lead...
...case of Donnie Wayne Snell, a motorcycle-gang enforcer wanted for shooting a Texas highway patrolman, Deputy Marshal Ed Stubbs used the Scorecard system to predict where Snell was heading. A deputy sheriff in Montana said that he had seen someone matching Snell's description driving through town with two other men. Stubbs went to a map, drew a radius around the spot and figured the men had to be heading for Casper, Wyo., or Rapid City, S. Dak. He put out leads to law officers in the area, who started watching the roads. Reported sightings were relayed to Stubbs...
Kesselman was one of Scorecard's most challenging cases. Inspector Stafford used the program to compile a list of the suspect's known aliases, addresses and friends, and zipped them to WANT teams in New Jersey, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Hawaii. Agents went out in force and ran down the list in a day or two. "If you put enough pressure on someone, it's going to go," reasoned Stafford...
Safir, impressed with Scorecard's results, is setting up a permanent computer center in the Marshals Service's suburban Washington headquarters. Wutrich, meanwhile, is already working on a "smarter" program, which may give the likes of Iran Michael Kesselman even less room in which to hide...