That's the hard part, hence the fact that there are hundreds of laws. We are only people and are not programmed to remember every number, that is when the statute reference guide will come in hand. It will have common arrest, that are made frequently vs if you do not know the statute number and have to look for certain phrasesthe officer can search by statute number. From my experience, a lot of Officer's do not have common computer knowledge, when they should since it is a digital age.
O_oAn advantage is that if an officer really wanted to search by some phrase, that could be done too.
I'd say that the real advantage is that the offline snapshot should already be familiar to officers.
*shrug*
Obviously, I have no idea what is available, but I am kind of assuming that the website is already a tool seeing decent usage. If that is the case, the snapshot would already be familiar to officers whereas your application would require training.
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Again, I don't know the situation, but that indicates a problem with the website and training programs.That's the hard part, hence the fact that there are hundreds of laws. We are only people and are not programmed to remember every number, that is when the statute reference guide will come in hand. It will have common arrest, that are made frequently vs if you do not know the statute number and have to look for certain phrases . From my experience, a lot of Officer's do not have common computer knowledge, when they should since it is a digital age.
Seriously, open up page #2--of this thread--add a "ctrl+f" and follow through with "Possession": your browser just did what you are aiming to provide.
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Of course, I'm not trying to discourage you; feel free to pursue your application regardless, but if a lack of computer savvy is the problem, your application can't help.
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Let me rephrase this, there are thousands of laws in each section with a certain amount of offenses. For example you would have to go to the website scroll through select your code section,find your offense section then find the statute out of thousands of choices. The program is an offense law reference for Officers. All you would have to do is load the program press 1 for Health and Safety, glance at your offense and type in the code vs waist time in searching. Time is limited out in the field. The program is to speed the process up for the Officer, by having the offense already listed. It saves you the time by not having to look at criteria that has nothing to do with the arrest. It is mainly a learning process for me to improve on C, and if I am able to improve my time out in the field by having fun with programming it's a win / win situation on my part. Thanks for all the advice guys! I am looking foaward to having future programing discussions.
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What James is doing will make it a lot easier and faster to access the info the officer needs. The prompts it prints will allow even a computer noob to dig through the mass of statutes, and find the right info, without any extra training. It will be just read the prompt, enter a few keystrokes, and press enter.
The info the officer needs might be all on the web site, (and in the text file), but it's certainly NOT optimized for ease of use by the officers.
Thanks for the assistance. I could not have explained the program purpose any betterOriginally Posted by Adak
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Yeah, I understood that from post #33, i.e., you are aiming for more than merely a search tool by statute number. However, it seems to me that in that case you do need to do more preparatory work on the source material than merely copying and pasting from a website into a text file, whereas the minimal preparatory work if you did a simple search by statute number was the reason why Adak was suggesting so strongly not to use a database in the first place. Now, I'm not saying that you have to use a database to store a reference or some kind of guided knowledge base, but that is an option, depending on what you want to learn.
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