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// Click "Home" in left column to return to home page. // [| Data Accuracy - The Challenge] Corporate databases are filled with data that reflects their business activities. Corporations have been using data in data warehouses and decision support systems, integrating with other applications and connecting with external applications over the Internet. Data is more precious than ever before as the uses of data expands.

[|Taming the RMS Monster] The two most important facets of law enforcement Records Management Systems are data acquisition and retrieval, making automation attractive. Further fueling the automation trend is a need among police departments to improve accuracy and reliability of records, cut the cost of data entry by eliminating duplication of effort and allow for integrating computer-aided dispatch and RMS.

[|Soundex] If you search many records of interest to genealogists, sooner or later you will need to use Soundex Codes. Why? Well, you can often find a person’s entry by his or her Soundex Code even when the names have been misspelled. This becomes important when you realize that many census takers did not speak the language of the people being enumerated. In fact, in the first 150 years of U.S. census records, the majority of Americans were illiterate and did not know how to write their own last names. The spelling of many family names also has changed over the years, but often the Soundex Code remains the same.

Measuring Crime Describes major souces of crime information and how the statistics are used by law enforcement.