Denmark experienced a hiccup when a glitch in their IT system stalled a murder investigation
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
June 29, 2019 11:25am CST
The Emilie Meng case experienced a hitch when police discovered that their IT system had not crawled / pinged all of the information it should have done. This caused a bit of an outcry in the community and I'm sure some questioned whether the Emilie Meng case would ever be solved.
They did fix the problem and were able to retrieve the data that had been previously missing. It has lead to an arrest, but a hiccup in the network police officials use is never a good thing.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
29 Jun 19
I don't think that anyone did anything intentionally here, but it's very likely that it happens more often than we think.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
29 Jun 19
@JustBhem I mean that I do not think someone intentionally did anything on this case, but it wouldn't surprise me if there were cops and other workers that sabotaged cases all the time.
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@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
29 Jun 19
This case has received a lot of attention, probably more than most of the other cases from my country. It has been 3 years since she disappeared, and the IT problem definitely hasn't improved things. It didn't just affect Emilie Meng's case. They also have to check many other cases from 2012 to 2019.
@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
29 Jun 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum I hope so. The police won't say much, but there is no doubt that some people didn't get caught because of this.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
30 Jun 19
@Porcospino I am sure the police want to save face where they can. I don't think an uproar / public outcry would help matters anyway, they need to have all their attention and resources on finding the suspects to these crimes.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
29 Jun 19
I read this a few days ago so I don't recall all of the details. However, i'm really hoping they have hired more people or extended work hours to help fix this mess that has been made. The potentiality of so many people going free when they could have otherwise been detained and made to pay for their crimes...
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
29 Jun 19
That's not what happened at all. The link I provided explains it more in detail.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
30 Jun 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum Thanks, I will read the whole thing.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
29 Jun 19
It's not something they intended to make either.
