Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Wonderful Windows Zaps Banks/Transport/Media after "Update" Yesterday Date: 22 Jul 2024 19:49:33 GMT Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <87h6cl74ix.fsf@tilde.institute> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ZwMVz6vgStROeDqNpg6uigpfGCWJyIIzKSNXkk9p4bRtwvzPeH Cancel-Lock: sha1:4j3uCJlJOUAe5WbqWskryuz9LdY= sha256:/6WP/4ICaLBDgBKwZ9JlDBBL8CspUx05GRr87UoGVtg= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:57142 On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:43:01 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > For sure. We have call tracking software in some 911 call centres; > it doesn't do the actual dispatching, but records call metadata > generated by the dispatch software (both for PSAPs and downstream > agencies). > The consequences of our software going down are less severe than the > dispatch software going down - still, though, the police would get a bit > miffed if call data was missing when they're trying to get a record of > all calls related to, say, reports of gunshots in an area. Previous history certainly is important and we search either by location or phone number. There is a configurable limit on returns. Mom's Nursing Home and Joe's Bucket of Blood tend to generate a lit of previous history. There are also database searches for persons or vehicles involved in previous incidents. I wouldn't want to be a dispatcher. You never know if the next time the phone rings if it will be somebody complaining about the neighbor's cat, a medical emergency, or a home invasion in progress. It's also easy for the clients to create alerts that will pop up for a location. They may be informational for businesses with contact information and Knox Box locations or comments on a resident who doesn't interact well with police. The historical data has to be retained too. Sometimes it takes years for a case to come to court where evidence has to be presented. The volume of data has taken off with the increased use of bodycams and dashcams. Luckily we just pass incident information to a third party. They're responsible for activating cameras for the responding units, capturing the video data, and archiving it. That's got to amount to petabytes sooner or later.