Law Enforcement Agencies Lack Right Tools To Prevent Next Terrorist Attack On U.S. Soil Says Bob Griffin, CEO of Knowledge Computing Corporation

09/10/03
Tucson, AZ

The next Mohamed Atta will seemingly operate below the radar and may not be on any terrorist watch list, according to Bob Griffin, CEO of Knowledge Computing Corporation. He or she will be pulled over for a routine traffic violation on US-25 in Henderson County, North Carolina or on US-190 in Huntsville, Texas.

Police Officers in these communities and over 30 others nationwide have the best chance of stopping terrorism in its tracks. That’s because they are using the most technologically advanced and proven crime fighting tool on the market – Knowledge Computing Corporation’s COPLINK®.

COPLINK allows for unparalleled analysis and decision support capability for rapidly identifying criminal suspects, relationships and patterns that can help solve and prevent crime. The solution is also promising for use in prevention of domestic terrorism.

“COPLINK is helping put murderers, repeat sex offenders and drug traffickers behind bars,” says Griffin, “and it’s going to be instrumental in winning the war on terrorism.”

COPLINK technology allows local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to collect, consolidate and share information across all boundaries. It works by allowing vast quantities of structured and seemingly unrelated data, currently housed in incompatible computer-based record management systems, to be organized under a single, highly secure intranet-based platform.

Through sophisticated analytics, COPLINK builds ‘institutional memory’, reduces knowledge gaps, helps generate leads when there are none, and prevents criminals from falling through the cracks. The system is scaleable, allowing for the creation of ad hoc regional and national task forces to address specific criminal activity such as terrorism and drug trafficking.

The Federal Government is allocating billions of dollars to develop and deploy similar solutions; however, many are unproven. Others fail to perform as advertised or are prohibitively expensive to deploy because they are completely custom built and don’t take advantage of off the shelf technology. Because these solutions are designed to work from the top down, they are often too sophisticated to encourage widespread adoption by local law enforcement officials – the nation’s first line of defense.

“Proven solutions like COPLINK are in use today that provide the deepest level of tactical analysis required by federal officials to prevent terrorism coupled with the user friendly interface local law enforcement require to fight crime in their backyards,” says Griffin. “Unlike other solutions, COPLINK is also economical and scaleable, and will not require massive federal subsidies to implement nationwide.”

COPLINK has been tested, proven and in use in communities nationwide since 1998. The pricing structure puts this powerful technology in reach to small communities with less than 25 police officers, to large cities like Boston, Massachusetts with more than 3,000 uniformed personnel. The solution is scaleable, allowing for multi-state, regional and national information sharing networks. Designed by former law enforcement officials, COPLINK is tactically sophisticated yet user-friendly. Even the most non-technical law enforcement officials can master it in less than a day.

About Knowledge Computing Corporation
Knowledge Computing Corporation provides technology-based crime fighting solutions to leading edge law enforcement agencies nationwide. Its critically-acclaimed product, COPLINK®, in use since 1998, is based on knowledge management technology first prototyped by top-ranked researchers in the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona in Tucson through a grant by the National Institute of Justice. The technologies developed at Knowledge Computing Corporation have been tested and proven by law enforcement agencies around the country. For more information: www.knowledgecc.com or www.coplink.net.