A Real-life example of how GTS helps solve crime!

A witness reported having seen two youths jumping from the low-roof of a building that had been freshly tagged with graffiti. Local police (from Agency 1), who shared access to a single GTS with a dozen other affiliated agencies from their geographic area, conducted an investigation and identified several other incidents logged in GTS that involved the same moniker, “GLOW”. Through the investigative process, police (from Agency 1) identified two suspects, but there was no physical evidence from any of the incidents to bring a successful prosecution. The DA rejected the case.

Not wanting to see their hard work go for naught, the investigating officers (from Agency 1) established automatic email alerts in GTS that would notify them the next time any incident was logged into the system that contained some detail that might help them – in this case, the moniker “GLOW”.

The following week, a detective in a neighboring PD that was also a user of the same GTS (Agency 2) logged an incident in which a tagger had been reported while painting “GLOW” on a wall, but fled the scene and evaded police capture. The tagger left behind a spray can from which prints were recovered, a detail the detective (from Agency 2) dutifully noted in his GTS incident report. As soon as he saved the report in GTS, his colleagues in the other department (Agency 1) were immediately notified that a new case matching their suspect’s MO had been logged. When they accessed the system and realized that a detective (at Agency 2) had obtained physical evidence and good prints from one of their suspects, they arranged a meeting.

With the suspect information logged by officers from Agency 1, and the fingerprints recovered by Agency 2 (which were linked to one of the two suspects), police separately confronted the parents of the juveniles. One of the suspects admitted responsibility, but the other (the one whose prints had been recovered from the scene) denied his involvement. At that point, with physical evidence from one case and suspect ID’s from another, detectives were able to build a comprehensive case that was accepted for prosecution, and which resulted in the clearing of ALL the unsolved cases that involved the “GLOW” moniker.

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