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Sarasota News Leader October 25, 2013 Page 50 thousand dollars is a lot of money. It should be about one-third if we cooperated with other venues. Why didn't we ask?" Snyder pushed further. "Can your officers go into the [Sarasota County] sheriff's system and see all the warrants that were issued today? There's a reason there are more unserved warrants in north Sarasota. We don't know about burglaries that are three blocks away in the county," he said. "We've got to go with our hat in our hand to two chiefs and one sheriff in Manatee County to get information. If we don't get this changed, we're never going to be sharing information." Snyder can hardly be accused of being anticop. He is a retired sheriff's deputy. Commissioner Paul Caragiulo, who received the local police union endorsement three years ago and is now running for the County Commission, offered more criticism. "This is silo thinking. Time and again we're looking for ways to synergize and collaborate. It seems like a very significant investment." Sarasota Police Capt. Corrine Stannish tried to defend the proposed contract. "What we have now is garbage in, garbage out. What I've been told is, this is great software," she said. Stannish runs the Bureau of Support Services in the department. But Snyder was unfazed. "If we don't get this changed, we're never going to be sharing information." The lawsuit Snyder mentioned was filed originally in April 2012 in Collier County Circuit Court. In September, the Collier County The Sarasota Police Department is in downtown Sarasota. Photo by Norman Schimmel