NYPD’s Super Computer Goes Down

The NYPD’s Real Time Crime Center, the much-ballyhooed $11 million hub that has computers and the latest technology tracking and processing criminals, went down yesterday, because of a software upgrade problem, while 911 wasn’t compromised, the downtime delayed the inputting of arrest and crime reports for several hours, criminals couldn’t be processed at the precincts (they had to go to central booking) and background checks couldn’t be conducted at the usual computers (police had to go to central booking or 1 Police Plaza).