A few hours before the ball dropped on New Year’s Eve, the computer dispatch system for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department crashed, rendering all patrol car computers nearly useless and forcing deputies to handle all calls by radio ...

Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies can again receive service calls through the computers in their cruisers after the agency's computer-aided dispatch system crashed on New

The largest sheriff's department in the country is suffering from an ongoing IT issue that began on New Year's Eve.