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Update: LA Times: Crimes Missing from LAPD Map
Thursday LAPD Chief William Bratton thanked the LA Times (pdf) for its investigation which revealed that many crimes listed in department summaries did not appear on the department's online maps. Bratton pointed to contractors as the source of the error. PSOMAS and Lightray are currently working to fix the problem. In the meantime, the site remains up.
Sadly, the whole effort may mean less access to data instead of more. Bratton has asked the city attorney to look into the terms by which the LA Times had access to the crime listings. He suggests having to make this data available to any might put undue burden on the department.
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