Computer snafu is behind at least 50 'raids' on Brooklyn couple's home
Blame it on a computer.
Embarrassed cops on Thursday cited a "computer glitch" as the reason police targeted the home of an elderly, law-abiding couple more than 50 times in futile hunts for bad guys.
Apparently, the address of Walter and Rose Martin's Brooklyn home was used to test a department-wide computer system in 2002.
What followed was years of cops appearing at the Martins' door looking for murderers, robbers and rapists - as often as three times a week.
After the Daily News exclusively reported on the couple's plague of police raids yesterday, apologetic detectives from the NYPD's Identity Theft Squad showed up at their home.
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Explanation Bogus
That explanation is bogus. It fails all reasonalbe computer system logic.
My Bet: A long time ago in the system when it was being created a programmer rigged up the code for testing such that when an address failed it came up with thiers instead so that the program could still function for testing.
Missing the Point: Thier house troubles are a symptom of some other problem in the system. The system is not working the way they think it is.
some cops are dumber than a sack of door knobs
you would think after the 10th time somebody would have noticed something was amiss.
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This reminds me of the movie "Brazil" in which an innocent guy named Buttle is mistaken for a terrorist named Tuttle.
great movie.
great movie.
sometimes
common sense should be used.
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