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Tattoo? Nickname? Gang members tracked by new software.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | July 13, 2004 | Copyright

Byline: Deanna Boyd

FORT WORTH, Texas _ Identifying gang members may soon be just a mouse click away.

Some law enforcement officials, looking for a better way to track gang members and share information, believe that they've found it in intelligence software called GangNet.

What if police are investigating a homicide where an unidentified headless and handless victim has tattoos of a rose and three dots?

Within seconds of typing a description of the tattoos into the system, software developer Tom Gates pulled up five names of gang members with…

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