The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the nation's largest sheriff's department, is currently experiencing an outage of its computer dispatch system. The system crashed on New Year's Eve, leaving deputies to handle all calls via radio communication.
Officials first became aware of the issue on Tuesday evening when deputies at various sheriff's stations were unable to log in to the mobile computers in their patrol cars. The department's computer-aided dispatch program, known as CAD, was not allowing personnel to log on with the new year, rendering it inoperable.
