ABSTRACT

In his book The Anderson Tapes, the late best-selling author Lawrence Sanders described a crime, every detail of which was recorded somewhere on someone’s surveillance tape. Sanders was commenting on the loss of privacy in our modern society and exaggerating the intrusion of surveillance, but he was also describing a situation wherein the investigators had so much data, from so many sources, that they were unable to see the forest for the trees. Not until after the crime had been committed did they realize what they already knew.