The Erlanger Police Department counts in its ranks roughly 40 sworn officers and serves a population of approximately 17,000 residents in northwestern Kenton County, Kentucky. Located astride a major freeway interchange (I-75 and I-275), Erlanger is a bedroom community just ten short miles (and a handful of bridges) south of the Ohio River and downtown Cincinnati. While the waters of the Ohio tend to keep most gang-on-gang violence from encroaching on what the locals call “The Friendship City,” there is crime there, and officers at Erlanger PD take seriously their mission to fight that crime. Since mid-2008 Erlanger PD has been using information sharing software with powerful search technology to increase the department’s effectiveness.