After the Boston Marathon bombing in April, every law enforcement agency in the city sprung into action. There was video to be examined, suspects to be found, and intelligence to be gathered on any larger organizations that might have been behind the attacks. It's the kind of situation the Boston Regional Intelligence Center was designed for, pulling together information from both city and federal agencies and analyzing the data in real time. But while the city had plenty of camera feeds, picking the two bombers out of the fray proved difficult. When the breaks came, they were from a more old-fashioned kind of police work: combing neighborhoods in cruisers and on foot. In the days running up to the event, when centers like BRIC are...
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