Tag: sars
Posted on Wed Apr 29, 2009 at 08:52:00 AM EST
Tags: sars, terror tips (all tags)
Meet the new "Operation Pipeline." The brainchild of the LAPD, it's being used by police departments nationwide to create a new national database of people engaging in suspicious behavior.
Here and in nearly a dozen other cities, including Boston, Chicago and Miami, officers are filling out terror tip sheets if they run across activities in their routines that seem out of place, like someone buying police or firefighter uniforms, taking pictures of a power plant or espousing extremist views.
Ultimately, state and federal officials intend to have a nationwide reporting system in place by 2014, using a standardized system of codes for suspicious behaviors. It is the most ambitious effort since the Sept. 11 attacks to put in place a network of databases to comb for clues that might foretell acts of terrorism.
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