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20 Law Enforcement Technology April 2014 www.officer.com SMARTER POLICING very hurt by being labeled the U.S. Most Deadly City," says Lingerfelt. "This is an absurd label, and this helped accelerate its already declining economies. There was a company that was going to locate there and based on that one factor they went to another city and took all their jobs with them. It's a great city with hard working people, but they haven't been able to invest in technology." In comes the IBM team, including Lingerfelt, who spent six weeks interviewing hundreds of criminal justice professionals and doing ride-alongs in St. Louis. "Very quickly, within days, some consistent problems and messages identified themselves as being basic contributors to the larger problem," says Lingerfelt. "We developed 27 recommendations." One of the major recommendations was a partnership with the criminal justice graduate pro- gram at the University of Missouri—St. Louis. Other recommendations included changes in partnerships and technology. "The key requirement to the recom- mendations is that every single recom- mendation had to be doable," Lingerfelt explains. "Pie in the sky would not be useful or offered. Every recommendation was given with how to afford it and how to implement it." Along with technology, the partner- ships developed by the challenge were a benefit. "The really interesting projects in Smarter Cities are crossing tradi- tional boundaries," explains Cleverley. "The technology part of the equation is not the difficult side. It's not simple, but the tricky part of the process is the governance and establishing the right coalitions and leadership lines to cross those boundaries and work together regardless of the technology. To break the historical chains that have held us back from collaborating." Eddie Roth, Deputy Chief of Staff to St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay explains how St. Louis Metropolitan PD took the recommendations. "None of the general themes came as a surprise but some of the subtleties and opportuni- Circle 29 on Reader Service Card ...Chandler developed and provided patrol offcers with resources to see crime hot spots within their beat. By doing so, offcers can address them in traditional ways. New generations of offcers have come to expect this kind of technological support. LET_16-21_Policing0414.indd 20 3/20/14 9:17 AM