A date-related software glitch caused the patrol cars of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department to malfunction on New Year's Eve, hindering their ability to respond to calls for service. Deputies are relying on radios instead of their in-car computers for dispatching, and paper logs have been reintroduced, highlighting the department's reliance on outdated technology.
Software on the computers in America's largest sheriff's department's patrol cars broke down on New Year's Eve due to what appears to be a date-related glitch. The computer technology it uses to send officers to the scene of alleged crimes is still non-functional. A spokesperson pointed out that the office had applied for funds to avoid the breakdown, but none were allocated to fix the bug.
Deputies are still being dispatched to locations as needed, albeit via radio rather than instructions fed to them as usual via their patrol car computers. 'At approximately 2000 on December 31, the department was made aware that several patrol stations were having difficulty logging on to their patrol vehicles’ mobile digital computers (MDC),' we're told. 'It was determined that the Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) program which operates on the MDCs is not allowing personnel to log on with the new year making the CAD inoperable. As a result, the department is currently operating on self-dispatch while the issue is being addressed. Calls for service are still being responded to and are being manually tracked at the station level.' The LASD spokesperson stressed that the 911 call network was unaffected, and the radio system used to coordinate the force is working just fine. It said it's trying'to find both temporary and long-term solutions to resolve this technical issue.''Patrol units have been forced to start using paper logs again (similar to what was used in the 1980s). It appears the system self-destructed and/or wasn’t programmed to go beyond 2024.
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