First of all, if you screw up and say something is in stock when it's out and that thing is critical to someone's life, someone could die. Even with mismanagement of an inventory system.
So let's not descend into "but lives are at stake" hyperbole.
The vast majority of the database are fines and tickets. And it's likely a lot of this stuff is duplicated elsewhere. If the police have a warrant for someone's arrest, that warrant is also on file at the courthouse where it was issued. If they booked a suspect and he went to county jail, the county jail has that information. If the entire evidence log is wiped out, all of the necessary information is written on the bags.
There is a ton of redundancy both intentional and accidental built into law enforcement. No one is dying because you need to restore the database from a back up because Larry deleted the database again.
And even still. Even if the consequences are that much dire, the work is the same. There is nothing special about the data that makes it any more or less difficult to store.
So let's not descend into "but lives are at stake" hyperbole.
The vast majority of the database are fines and tickets. And it's likely a lot of this stuff is duplicated elsewhere. If the police have a warrant for someone's arrest, that warrant is also on file at the courthouse where it was issued. If they booked a suspect and he went to county jail, the county jail has that information. If the entire evidence log is wiped out, all of the necessary information is written on the bags.
There is a ton of redundancy both intentional and accidental built into law enforcement. No one is dying because you need to restore the database from a back up because Larry deleted the database again.
And even still. Even if the consequences are that much dire, the work is the same. There is nothing special about the data that makes it any more or less difficult to store.