HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council - 5668A RESOLUTION NO. 5668 A
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH TO SUPPORT THE
POLICE DEPARTMENT ' S SHARE OF THE COST OF
THE ORANGE COUNTY CAL-ID PROGRAM
WHEREAS, Chapter 1234 Article 3 .5 of the 1985 statutes
authorizes participation of California law enforcement in the
Remote Access Network of the California Identification System
(CAL-ID) , and
This law appropriates seven million dollars to fund local
implementation of the Remote Access Network, and
It is acknowledged that the local implementation of CAL-ID
will help solve crimes and provide a safer environment for the
citizens of our City, and
A local Orange County Remote Access Network Board has been
established to determine the placement of equipment within the
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County and the manner of purchase, and
Section 11112.5 (a) of the Penal Code provides for costs for
equipment purchase, based upon the master plan approved by the
Attorney General, including State sales tax, freight, insurance
and installation, shall be prorated between the State and local
government entity, and
The State ' s share shall be 70% (or approximately 1.722
million dollars) and the local government ' s share will be 30% of
those costs, and
Section 11112.5 (b) of the Penal Code provides that local
government shall be responsible for all costs related to site
preparation, equipment maintenance, on-going operational costs,
file conversion costs and enhancements which exceed the basic
design specifications of the California Department of Justice.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council will
support its share of the cost of the Orange County CAL-ID program
based upon its use of the program.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach at a regular meeting thereof held on the 2nd
day of June 1986.
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Res. No. 5668 A
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss:
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )
I, ALICIA M. WENTWORTH, the duly elected, qualified City
Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, and ex-officio Clerk of the
City Council of said City, do hereby certify that the whole number of
members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is seven;
that the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted by the affirmative
vote of more than a majority of all the members of said City Council
at a regular meeting thereof held on the 2nd day
of June 19 86 , by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen:
Kelly, MacAllister, Finley, Mandic, Bailey, Green
NOES: Councilmen:
None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
Thomas
City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California
ESTIMATED LOCAL CAL-ID COSTS
FOUR LOCAL INPUT TERMINALS
tolice % of Yearly Yearly Total
Department CPU Use Initial Operational Yearly
Cost Costs Costs
Amortization $ $
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Anaheim 9.1% ; 21,286 1 59,263 1 80,549
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Brea 2.9% ; 6,752 1 18,799 ; 25,551
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Buena Park 2.0% i 4,816 ; 13,407 1 18,223
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Costa Mesa 7.9% ; 18,495 1 51,491 1 69,985
Cypress 1.5% i 3,647 ; 10,152 ; 13,799----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Fountain Valley 2.3% i 5,548 1 15,447 ; 20,996
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Fullerton 5.8% ; 13, 627 1 37,938 11 51,565
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Garden Grove 7.4% ; 17,221 ; 47,945 ; 65,165 i
j-Lntington
--------------------------------------------------------------------------Beach 16.6% ; . 38,455 ; 107,062 ; 145,516
Irvine 1.8% ; 4,240 1 11,804 1 16,044
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Laguna Beach 1.2% ; 2, 896 ; 8,064 ; 10,960
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La Habra 1 1.8% ; 4,379 1 12,193 ; 16,572
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La Palma 0.1% ; 384 ; 1, 069 { 1,453
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Los Alamitos 0.3% i 768 ; 2,137 ; 2,905
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Newport Beach 1.9% ; 4, 606 ; 12,824 1 17,430
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Sheriff-Coroner 20.4% i 47,266 1 131, 593 ; 178,858
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Orange 0.8% ; 1,954 1 5,441 1 7,395
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Placentia 1.1% ; 2,722 1 7, 578 ; 10,300 I
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San Clemente . 0.3% i 837 ; 2,332 ; 3,169 i
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Santa Ana 10.4% i 24,235 ; 67,472 ; 91,707 ;._
� al Beach 0.4% i 1,047 ; 2,915 1 3,961
canton 0.9% ; 2,233 ; 6,218 ; 8,451
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Tustin 0.6% i 1,518 ; 4,226 1 5,744
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Westminster 1.1% ; 2, 669 ; 7,432 ; 10,102
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COSTS OF THE REGIONAL ACCESS NETWORK
The costs of the Cal -ID project for all County law enforcement can
be divided into initial one time cost of equipment and on-going
operational costs .
Initial - Equipment Costs
One full use access agency $2, 000,000
Four local input terminals $ 800,000
Total Hardware Costs $2, 800,000
State Subvention ($1 , 722,000)
Total Local Costs $1 , 078,000
Initial - Start Up Costs
Site Preparation $ 200,000
Fingerprint card conversion $ 250,000
Total Initial Start Up Costs $ 450,000
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COSTS OF THE REGIONAL ACCESS NETWORK
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On Going Operational Costs :
These costs can be expected to re-occur each year as a part of the
total costs of operating the Orange County Cal-ID Sysyem.
f Kaintenance (for FUAA and 4 LITs ) $ 280, 000
Communications $ 4, 800
Systems Expansion (i .e. additional storage
area or fingerprint matchers) $ 80, 000
Hardware replacement fund (amortized over
10 year life of equipment) $ 280, 000
Total yearly operational cost $ 644,800
The cost of this system for the individual agency will vary with
monthly use. The hardware costs will be paid by. the County and will
be reimbursed over a 10 year amortization period. Initial funding
will be a part of the County 's on going Certificate of Participation
Program at a variable rate of 6. St for a full ten-year term. Debt
service payments will be on a monthly basis with the principal fully
amortized over the ten year period .
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The Chiefs of Police and Sheriff ' s Association developed a survey
instrument to determine the potential use of the Cal-ID System by
each Orange County police agency. The survey tracks the number of
crime scene latent prints collected by each police department and
also tracks the number of persons arrested who would be identified
through the Cal-ID System. The amount of computer time required to
process the reported crime scene latent prints and arrested persons
fingerprints has been calculated and percentaged to give each
jurisdiction a cost projection for budget purposes .
When the system is operational agencies will be billed one month in
arrears based on the actual percentage of computer time used for the
prior month.
COST CALCULATION
The calculation of costs for the Orange County Cal-ID System is
divided into two sections:
1. Initial hardware and start-up costs
2. On-going operational costs
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The initial costs include the purchase of computer hardware, site
preparation and conversion of fingerprint cards for computer entry .
The money for this purchase will be advanced by the County and
repaid over a ten year period . The total yearly cost for the total
Orange County Cal -ID System will be approximately $216, 000.
The on-going operational costs including equipment maintenance ,
communication costs from the local input terminals to the central
full use agency, allowance for systems expansion and hardware
replacement. The total yearly cost will be $644, 800.
As an example, a participating agency which uses 2% of the system
' time would expect to pay :
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Hardware and Start-up Costs 2% x $216, 000 - $ 4, 320
On-going Operational Costs 2% x $644 , 800 12 896
Total Yearly Cost $17, 216
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COSTS TO INDIVIDUAL CITIES
By participation in the Orange County Cal -ID System each city is
committing to pay initial and on-going costs based upon their use of
the Cal-ID System.
The formula for the cost of participation in the Cal -ID System was
formulated by the Local Remote Access Network Board with advice from
the Chiefs of Police and Sheriff ' s Association . This formula is
modeled after the county-wide law enforcement communications
agreements where each city is charged according to their percentage
of use.
u s on the amount of
The cost allocation for each city will e based b p
computes processing time used for each search. This measure, called
Central Processing Unit (CPU) use time is a standard measure for
cost allocation in time share computer environments . The CPU use
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for an agency for a given month is expressed as a percentage of
total system CPU use by all the agencies combined. This number is
multiplied by the monthly cost of the system for both initial
hardware cost and the operational costs.
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Computers fessional hit man who had ganged down a
target while posing as a delivery boy.But
come Police camplaiUAbat their comput 1
an are too slow and too undependable;;;,!
- r+autiae police.rock. A typical computer
Taking a Byte out of Crime sitise of fi>a "° �" more than
seaoads Per fingerprint and often
OY�trl00ks prints lhat are even slightly
Police hall computer system that cracked the Night Stalker case amu�dged.
hree minutes alter Califa+rnia's new F The computer that cracked the Night
Fingerprints can prove that a particular Stalker case was designed by the Nippon
T automated fingerprint identification suspect was at the scene of a crime, but Electric Co. to overcome these deficien- ;
system received its first assignment, the when investigators have only prints and ties. It combines high-speed, custom- f
crime-stopping computer scored a direct no suspect, the odds of finding a match made silicon chips with a new technique s
hit.It matched a print lifted from an or- are greatly reduced. La Angeles police for analyzing points of minutiae.Besides
sage Toyota in Las Angeles to one taken estimate that it would have taken a single plotting each point, the computer also
fi om a 23-year-0id drifter with a record of expert searching manually through the counts the number of ridge tines between
drug and auto-theft arrests.Two days lat- city's 1.7 million print cards 67 years to that point and its four nearest neighbors.
er Richard Ramirez was caught and come up with Richard Ramirces prints. If two minutiae points are separated by
charged withone of 13 murders attributed "Frankly speaking," says Commander eight ridge lines in a pristine print,
to the Night Stalker,the serial killer who Bill Rathburn, "most of the dusting for chances are they will be separated by the r
roughly same number of lines in a print f
—-- that has been distorted or blurred. The
_ - system's designers were certain that this[
extra measure would result in dramatic
improvements in performance. E
They were right. The city of San
s Francisco started using a NEC finger-'
print system in 1984 and almost immedi-
ately began picking up prints that previ-
ous searches had missed. Flipping
through 630 prints a second,the new com-
puter took only seven minutes to identify e
a man who had fatally shot a 47-year-old;
woman during a 1978 robbery attempt.In
its first four days of operation,the system
cracked 34 unsolved eases. News of
the cot,putees, remarkable performance T:
traveled quickly. One month later,NEC
sold a second system to the state of Alas-
ka,and eight months after that,Califor-
aim decided to scrap its existing system in
favor of one built by NEC.
In the Night Stalker case,technicians'.
in Sacramento were still loading-records
from the old system into the new when E:
D%izad slate vrW also:kay polots oboe rik"stop er q Mt iw tow the suspect print was lifted from an auto-
mobile linked to the killer.At the urgent
had been terrorizing the city r prints we do_is for public rela- request of police,tour NEC programmers'
for the past seven months - tions purposes,to show people worked all night to finish the job.The fol-
7U speedy identification T that we're doing something to lowing day,after the fingerprint had been i
of Ramirez was the latest and T pursue the criminal." scanned and digitized,the computer corn-
most dramatic example of a The problem is that it pared it with 3W.000 stored in its memory }
technique that has police of6- takes too long to pick out the and spit out the names of the ten people
vials across the US, chrrrac intricate patterns of ridges whose prints most closely resembled it.At ,
mg for fingerprint computers `' that distinguish one person's the top of the list, with a probability
of their awn Says Brooklyn - fingertips from the millions on rating four times as high as that of the
r, District Attorney Elizabeth ` file. Before computers, these nearest contender,was Ramirez.Says El-
Holtman "It could re-volu- patterns were classified into ton Johnson,NEC:West Coast manager
tioniae law enforcement in a NO- -R-MR, a eight categories of arches, "We knew immediately that we had
way that no other technokw bops and whorls.To speed up our man"
has since radios were put in patrol cats.". the search,the FW*s system concentrates Los Angeles police.eyeing their roster !
Fingerprint identification of crimi- an simpler patterns: the so-called points of unsolved crimes-4,350 murders,2,3W
nab has been routine since the turn of the of minutiae,where a ridge line ends or a rapes, 20,000 burglaries--cannot wait to
century, when Scotland Yard pioneered single ridge splits into two.A thin beam of plug these cases into the slate's new
its systematic use. Computers were light scans each print and records the lo- system. Other California lawmen share
F brought into the proeesa in 1976,when the cation of up to 100 minutiae.The comput- their enthusiasm. "There are a lot of
FBI began converting some 17 million er then converts these data into numbers people walking the streets out there who
prints to digital form.Today.every arm- that can be stored on magnetic disks and think they're home free;' says Orange
chair detective knows better than to pick retrieved for comparison with prints tak- County Lieut. Richard &bon.-Once we
f tip a gun by its handle,lest he obliterate en firom the scene of a crim get these computer systems working
fingerprints that could identify the killer. This method has scored some dazzling together, they're going to be in for a
But real policemen know that they sages over the yeah.The Royal Cana- surprise."---firms genre-Aewttt Rarwud
rarely get good paints from a handgun and than Mounted Police,for example,used it by A. COOtAk1W&AmvCt w ad Mw GpodR
that any they do find are oft= useless. to trace prints from a box of pizza to a pro. sae 4w Agrabw
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28 San$randsce tIlrealcit o o it o o Tours.,Apn112, 1984 '
Last Moth,the woman asked Mom
If police had ever been able to identify
Rookie Computer
the wontca who stole t looney and
jrwclry. Moses checked the computer
and theta was the women.She had been
tall,foci!sutborltks have put a bold war.
bring on the woman In prison and will
Cracki n S.F.'
s
bring her to San Francisco to stand triat
. when she Is released from the Neva. a
prison this summer.
Baffling Crimes t i Moses said he•was terfl porarffy+ baf.
fled when the prints taken at a recent
burglary went were those of a man who
• 1 had been convicted of nine previous bur-
Ify harry Jupiter glaries and sentenced to prison.
As far as Sergeant Ken Noses The average time W match up a "I thought the computer must have
and In%pector Walt Ible are con- print on the machine Is six mi utes.So.In made a mistake."Moses said,"and then I
cerned. the San Francisco Police effect, we've done almost three years checked to we where this guy was.Turn-
Uepnrtment's $11 million finger. work In just a bit over five weeks" ed out he had been released on parole.It
print computer paid for Itself the was the same guy, all right, and right
first day It was in operation. Moses said he and Ible put all those back in salon"
Moses and No of the Crime Scene hours—"every spare minute either of us
had"—Into trying to nail the man who No question about It-Moses loves
Investigation Unit had spent more than killed Mrs. Slamovich because it was a the new computer.
1000 hours trying to identify the owner of rticuiarly beinouscrime,and especial- «fib is one of the greatest crime
the fingerprints they found in February
1978 at the home of Marian Slamovich, 's Ironic. prevention tools going" be said. 'They
who had been shot in the face by an . 'The woman had been a victim of should have one of these things In every
Intruder. the Na:is." !doses said. 'They bad tat- city in the country.The impact is nothing
Mrs.Slamovich died of her wounds a tooed a number on her arm in a concen- short of revolutlonary" '
tration camp: To survive.ail that, and
month after she was shot.Six years later, then to go through what she went
on March 1, the fingerprints Moses and through here.:.Well.we tried our best
Ih r window lifted frotn a second-floor at
the Slamovich home were the first ones came
tbro h.
put into the new computer. � t
Within five minutes, the detectives able vividly remembers bow he and
had a match.The computer Identified the noses reacted the computer's tomiag
prints as those of Leoncio B.SsulnY,23.a up with SaulWs name and matching
computer operator employed by Crocker "tg•
Bank. "We let out one bell of a shrlek"Ihie!
Saulny Is now in City Prison awaiting mod ich said,We gotok»e,that's the Sla-
trial on charges of murder and burglary g
In the Slamovich case. And what ha nod after that!
Moses commands the '4person "You• ql* wn t inic •
Crime Scene Investigation Unit.The fin- 1.1le're,"You rr own .* Ible s id and say.,gerprint computer.which went•Into op• go artt.elm, Ible said.
oration on March 1.1s under Moses'super• Another computer ednii1bution Mo-
vision. bcs found particularly gratifying In.
' w v c District woman-who
In loss than six full weeks of use, i of eel a is bmand m
Moses said yesterday,the computer bas 'was the victim of a"pigeon drop":frtipd
been the major tool In cracking 126 cases, to bf�rch i981. .'.
The woman was conned by two other
Most involved burglaries 02 of• gmrn on c1luniont Strivt and turned
them.But the computer also enabled San aver$1200 in gash and'thousands of do]-
Francisco Investlgaiars to Identify sus• ar:worth of jewelry before real qte
-pects In 12 homicides, 10 robberies and d been duped. real".)!
he.
sexual assaults. no victim reported the loss and the
f' 'These'are all 'cold makes,-Moses embarrassing way In which she had been
said. "cases in which only the finger. ; conned. She later helped circulate pets,
prints=-no other evidence—lead us to tions""for signatures to put a measure on
the suspect. the San Francisco ballot to buy•tbe fin.
gMPrintcomputer. .
'3efore we got this computer, we
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averaged 00 'cold makes' a year, and Fin-g- er nnf �Cow uter
those took exhausting band se rches'ot. " - Wb, ''
thousands o files. It could otters take Paying" Off
B1,09 �Omonths to do the band search on a tingle �ease.l
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Computer fingers j
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8y Larry Rasta 'n �� reipes
lbkaminer staff writer suspect
.'she Saa flaneisco Police Depart _.
watt fingerprint computer has idea, r
tified a suspect in a series of 20 rapes w*w n wort text is &n ithaneboo a gum er.a kaife, force her to �,
over four yeas in T be City and in son betweat January IM and March Ing"he would take from her bed-
Mateo County. na During the same period,a rapist room drav►,em insist that the cover
Glen Edward Smith, 27, was err ! following the ante pattern assaulted her face and that rape her.Otten aid.
eased of being the"black bra rapist" eight WXMn in San Mateo.hotter city
when the t7 6 million computer and Daly may.according to Otten. Before the rapist left,Otten acid;
matched his prints with those found Tnftfly. Ottm said, the rapist be would bur8larbe the viethrtti
at the scene of two of the rapes. wand steak into the homes of siallk horse. On one occasion, said SexW
Smith is serving a six-year term in professional women living None,gen- Assault Inspector Cary Lentos,a
the state prison at Soledad for a 19B3 erany between 11 pun-and!a.m. tim was burned with a cigarette dur-
conviction on burglary and stolen He would threaten his victim with leg,the rape-
property charges in San Mateo. �'
According to police.he has an ex-
tensive criminal record for vehicle ;•2► , £:, ; * ,� , x � ' '
theft,assault and stolen property of-
fenses..in addition to his 1983 comic-
San Francisco police Inspectors Pe-
ter Otten and Kevin O'Connor con
fronted Smith with the print math
ri :z
yesterday at Soiedad.Smith.they said.
had nothing to tray. !
'T think we kind of spolied his day•
said O'Connor.
O%bnmor bad arrested Smith b a ` / ' ". R
I= rape, but he was turned ktoee �: ` , ' : • �f *»
after tS against I =. .; j �'� ` tT
It was
hits wouldn Stand theta test of a h , ,r� �• '�
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UK , •'a : ��.mot �';�.�. �f
Police have too positive prints
fronts at last two of the 2D rapes be.
Neved to have been carried out the
same man►according to Depu Dish
trier Attorney Peter Kling,its charge
Of sexual assault prosecutions.Partial
Prints taken in other of the assaults
will now be matched with Smith's tuq :�:•: i.'a`l,, l�;N it<r .i•: f
handprint.accor ding to Kling- t r%: 'r • �•�'l ``��
"Welt be booking him with at leant
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one of the rapes pact week,.' Kling
said yesterday."and I expect well be
booking him for mother 11 by the
week after'
7be black bra rapist, so dabbed Sergeant Ken Moses demot+atrated thti finserpriM compvter to a tompvter
because he forted his victims to don programming class from University Htgh School of San Francisco
panties and bras before he raped
them,B belleved to have sexually as
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Teen arrested caught her.;am ,n her ciasm m at
ti p.m.: Dohm said
POW said Osband battered and
in beatings tried to kill the 31-year-oid woman,
who redly Den up a struggle �.
despite a significant loss of blood
Of 2 women Me was discoveredafter she sta&
A Sacramento teen-alter has been tl+e'�into a hallway.
The victim was usable to look at
arrested and charged with the taw photographs of Osband Wednesday
beating, and knifing of an elderly because bar eyes were swollen shut,
woman in bee downtown apartment police said Her classroom remained
and With the .-Adous- mugging of sealed oil Wednesday as investiga-
another woman in a classroom at St toes examined blood spatters on the
Patrick's School. Walls and floor.
"midWe dle of so miy vmething and e gapped hprevented im In the "With all of the activities going an
" Lae at the school that night I don't think
further assaults," Cisiei Deputy gh
Dohm of the Sacramento Police the teacher even felt like she was
Department said Wednesday. "Any- alone." said Sister Arlene Connelly,
body who has viciously attacked two associate superintendent of Catholic
older women like this is not going to schools for the Sacramento Diocese.
1p,09 "It was still W outside and there
A state fingerprint computer ids- were soccer sad volleyball games
titled 19-year-ojd Lance Ian Osband _
as the killer 2% bours after a thug oa."
fingerprint from the murder scene Connelly said a lett it would be
was submitted Tuesday.Dohm said.
� sent to all parochial campuses,
Osband's fingerprints had been
ig employees to avoid work
recorded from a prior, undisclosed fag alone after school hours.
felony arrest. Dohm said. Police Principal Luanne Manganaro said
obtained the suspect's address from the teacher with 28 years of experi-
his probation officer and Osband ence was spending her first year at
surrendered without resistance at St Patrick's and bad received a
7:30 p.m. at 1466 Jandck Drive. The flood of cards, flowers and gifts at
address is In south Sacramento. Stutter Memorial Hospital.
near the town of Freeport, where She said the incident had not
the unemployed suspect lived With made students tearful, "but it has
his mott:er and grandmother. made them more prayerful and
-We've had people working on aware of being safe." -
! this overtime since it started,"
Dohm said. "We finally came up Dohm said the arrest marked the
with the fingerprint and nnshed it first instance in which the .mate
over Tuesday." 2M artment of Justice's fingerprint
Dohm said the investigation began' {dents scaTbn computer solved a
after the "vk*n assault" an W Sacramento city murder. The corn-
year-old Lois Minnie Skuse, Whose pater has a pool of 258.OW subjects.
body was found by her son on Oct. 6 A new system to be installed next
in her apartment at 2W V St year will include 1.3 million sub-
The ti6.year Sacramento rest . ksti.
had been "beaten severely." but — KIM Mt1C6M 1
Guth resulted from a stab to the
throat,detectives said. Her bedroom
had been ransacked and bar body
covered by items removed from
drawers and closets.
There reportedly were no sips of
screed entry. The murder weapon
was left at the scene.
Dohm said cruse scene investiga-
toes labored for two weeks before
developing Osband's fingerprint
Tuesday. a day aster be allegedly
struck spin.
A second-grade teacher at St.
Patrick's School, 5945 Franklin
Blvd, had just completed a confer-
snce with parents when Osband
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LAPD should have afngerprint computer
he fact that thousands of million price tag would be a bargain if
crimes go unsolved in Los only half that number of additional
Angeles doesn't mean crooks cases were solved. Some point out
u that the state is already in the process
e smarter than co CYimi-
Ps- Y
nals often leave behind fingerprints of providing one of these computers
that could put them behind bars if to serve police agencies throughout
investigators only had what they need Los Angeles County, the I.APD could
to tuck those rants down. bu access to the centralized com-
A crucial tool that the L.A. police pu buy
for it million. When crime in
lack — and L.A.is concerned,however'we should
should have — is S: not place economy higher than speed
a computer that and efficiency. The burden on the
can Swiftly com• _ ' • LAPD is too great for it to have to
•Y�
's
e for co ter that
pare fingerprint
stand In kin stand
evidence with ' .. might be shared by more than 50local
those of known jurisdictions. L.A. law egforcement,
criminals whose which relies on the eity's centralized
prints are already data processing for much of its record
on file.Currently, keeping, already knows from bitter
Investigators try experience what its like to be kept
to match prints waiting.
' by hand, often a futile effort. If the new equipment is installed.
Recently, the state's own finger. many stymied criminal investigations
! print computer was used to identify could be completed quickly— with-
and apprehend suspects in two major out hiring legions of pew officers.
cases — the Night Stalker serial Moreover. many of the resultant
killings and the murders of two arrests might well prevent future
college students abducted from the crimes, by taking repeat offenders
UCLA area. I.,A. Police say that If out of circulation. With that in mind.
they had such a computer here, they the City Council has wisely approved
could dose another 25,000 cases a the purchase in principle. It ought to
year, including hundreds of murders give final approval as quickly as
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