

Protecting Citizens by Predicting Future Threats
Jennifer Smither
December 30, 2009
The threat is imminent, and can become a reality at almost any time. But no one knows about it
except those who plan to carry out the threat. Chicago’s new District Intelligence Bulletin System
(DIBS) is helping to even the odds by the extremely rapid dissemination, to law-enforcement agencies
throughout the entire city, of almost real-time crime-scene information and other dangerous and
potentially lethal threats, whether manmade or acts of nature.