Computer Software Eats Police Records

MANISTEE, Mich. — Police have an all-points bulletin out for the man who sold them a computer program they say is eating up their case records.

The program, called Crime Tracker, was billed as a way for police to keep track of cases and was sold to about 25 police departments across Michigan.

So far, four years of data cannot be found on Manistee’s computer, and other departments are having problems too. Manistee has the records on paper, but it would take a full-time employee up to two years to reenter it into a computer.

The software maker is believed to be in Australia, and attempts to reach him have failed.