Los Angeles: At 10pm last night, the entire LASD CAD system (Computer Aided Dispatch) crashed.

 According to sources “The system thinks it’s July of 2003, and won’t interface with any other department system. Patrol units have been forced to start using paper logs again (similar to what was used in the 1980’s)”. It appears the system self-destructed and/or wasn’t programmed to go beyond 2024.”

This will likely cause critical delays in both receiving and transmitting important information to deps in the field, officer safety and community safety issues. 

Per sources: “ the only 2 people who knew CAD’s programming, the actual coding have said this is a total crash and the code needs a huge patch and re write. 

Problem is, neither work for the county, one is dead, and the other is a no-ack as of 3 AM this morning. 

The dead guy told the department this 21 years ago. In 2003. That’s why the system thinks it’s 2003, that’s the default drop for the system.  It will not reset itself.”

Deputies in the field reporting they can’t run people, they can’t run plates. 

“Essentially we are dead in the water. If we want to run anything they have to call the station, get put on hold, transferred to the secretary, then the f*cking crypt keeper has to figure out the computer and run the plate or person. We are back to manual urn logs.”