thesis in criminology, a program he calls rigel. rosmo designed the program after studying the relationship between hundreds of crimes and where the perpetrators lived in relation to the crimes they committed. >> then the computer assesses distances between the various crime sites and distances from the crime sites to what is really a 40,000 pixel grid covering the area where what we call the hunting area where the crimes have taken place. for each of those 40,000 pixels it will assign a probability value. representing the likelihood that's where the perpetrator lives. >> when detective rosmo entered the locations of the 12 rape cases in lafayette, the computer identified something important. it was a specific neighborhood just two miles from each of the crime scenes. according to the computer, this one-half square mile area was the neighborhood in which the perpetrator either lived or worked. surprisingly, a deputy sheriff from lafayette lived in that very neighborhood at the time the assaults took place, although he had recently m

rigell, and the subcommittee chairman, my friend, mr. diaz-balart, to try to work with us to restore some of the funding at full committee markup but reducing any of this funding would renege on the federal commitment and jeopardize the state-federal partnership we have work sod hard to create. it would also open the doors for our partners to pull back on their commitments commensurately which would only exacerbate metro's challenge in upgrating its aging infrastructure. the need for funding is identified by metro itself, the national traffic safety administration board following a tragic accident this past january. the most visible improvement is the purchase of 7,000 new rail cars with extra capacity to replace the oldest and original cars in the fleet. congress and the federal government have a responsibility in the operation and safety of metro half of all metro stations are located on federal property and approximately 40% of rush hour riders on metro are in fact federal employees. include manage members of congress and their staffs