While the article provides a lot of good info, it is a very difficult read due to the structuring.

Here's something which I found strange: "In fact, on two separate occasions, police shot at trucks misidentified as belonging to Dorner, injuring three civilians. “We said [to Palantir], ‘We need an application that can span multiple units within an agency…multiple agencies within a county... and multiple counties within a state,’” says Jackson. “[They developed an application] based on lessons learned from Dorner.” That application, called ClueMan, short for Clue Manager, has just gone live at JRIC."

Makes me wonder - Is software some day going to replace good police work?