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FBI Launches 'BanditTracker' Site to Hunt Robbers in NY and NJ

by Terrence O'Brien on March 25, 2010 at 05:40 PM

FBI Launches Site to Find Bank Robbers in NY and NJ
Traditional wanted posters found in post offices across the nation take significant investments of time and effort to produce and distribute. Yet, outside of the Ten Most Wanted list, the FBI has not made significant use of the Internet to distribute notices about fugitives. Now, however, the message is beginning to emerge with the gradual rollout of BanditTracker.

The system debuted in 2007 with a trial run in Dallas, Texas. Other localized pilot programs were launched in Atlanta, Chicago, Little Rock and Indianapolis as the company behind the site, Spectrum Management, fine tuned and tested the system's scalability. Today, the Web-based fugitive notice board is receiving a larger scale deployment with the debut of BanditTracker NorthEast. The Atlantic branch posts images, descriptions and other relevant information about bank robbers within hours of heists in New York and New Jersey. Once, getting the same information out to newscasts and post office notice boards took days.

The site currently is hosting information for more than two dozen robberies, with half a dozen high priority cases in a rotating slide show at the top of the page. Check it out and do your part to help track down wanted men and women in your area -- or just appease your morbid fascination. [From: BanditTracker NorthEast, Via: New York Times]

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