Enter Mr. Thakkar, a former southwest regional director for Sierra Systems Group, a company that, among other tasks, creates and manages law enforcement technology.
Alexander S. Ford, the chief executive of PoliceOne, a law enforcement technology company in San Francisco, said that very few police departments have Internet recruitment systems, though some allow Internet users to print an application form and mail it in.
IN the clash at the Supreme Court last week between old-fashioned personal privacy and newfangled law enforcement technology, few people predicted privacy would be the clear-cut winner.
While South Los Angeles remains one of the more troubled areas of the city, the arrest of Mr. Franklin also illuminates in many ways how far it has come, both through the vast reduction in violence and the evolution of law enforcement technology and tactics.
Just a few months after hearing about the crime for the first time, Mr. Thakkar, who has worked in the law enforcement technology industry on the West Coast for years, got a call from a former colleague who told him about a job opening in Connecticut to oversee the new system.
Today, a federal judge in Newark will hear defense motions to throw out evidence gathered by a controversial new law enforcement technology: a system that recorded every keystroke typed on Mr. Scarfo's computer, including the password that investigators used to unscramble Mr. Scarfo's files.
