A plausible programming error.

GULP.

Wow.
This is sinister.

On one hand every single company as large and as old as the SPD has lost at least the same amount of data as well, but I bet as time goes on we'll see a trend of police departments of all sizes and ages claiming data loss.

Welcome to THE FUTURE!

How hard is it to back up your files? At the SPD incompetence is expected. BTW- O'toole seems like more of the same.

@4: On the other hand, those companies' staff are not employed to enforce public policy with force, and those other staff are not provided near-certain immunity from prosecution for killing people on the job. With extraordinary authority should come extraordinary scrutiny. This isn't some company losing data about staff actions; it is a police department doing such.

Isn't Technology Glitch a Microsoft product? Or just one of their acquisitions?

This is soooooo sinister!