Phil in SF quoted Remain Silent by Susie Steiner (Manon Bradshaw, #3)
Newly married and navigating life with a preschooler as well as her adopted adolescent son, …
This is why the Holmes database was invented- a police IT system to collate and store evidence so that officers' open minds were not involved in the equation. Holmes told you to follow every lead. Holmes didn't care about your hunches. Trace. Eliminate.
— Remain Silent by Susie Steiner (Manon Bradshaw, #3) (Page 273)
When i see mention of something like "Holmes" i have to look it up. How does such a system work, because something that takes bias out of the process seems very fanciful to this software engineer.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOLMES_2
And what made it into Wikipedia is so much gobbledygook that I'm even more sure the quoted passage is a bunch of wishful thinking or copaganda told to the author.