Complete Computer Failure

We've seen glitches come and go in the almost completely incompatible computer programs that the Department uses to run it's day-to-day operations. Data Warehouse, CHRIS, CLEAR, AFIS, AIRA, Data Warehouse. All have been full of their own special bugs. We worked around them.

This is the first time we can remember the systems being down for 24 hours, the entire Department reverting to paper arrest reports, paper inventories, no fingerprints, no photographs, no anything.

• Lockups are starting to overfill;
  
• petty offenses aren't being let to bail;
  
• no court transports Saturday morning;
  
• emergency court hearings are being scheduled for Sunday on prisoners held 48 hours

Wait until County has to process five times the normal number of heads tomorrow.

First thing Monday morning, we're buying futures in turkey baloney, because the lock-ups keeping so many prisoners must have depleted the supply to near critical levels.

But we're ready for the Olympics.