Another benefit of the program is that it gives a sense of stability to the children. As CHA buildings come down, police ensure children who move, find them new teams. All in all, the Inner City Sports League is a team effort with no losers, only winners. TRAK computers create picture-perfect images that can be quickly transmitted to any agency with a TRAK or fax machine. In a recent case, Chicago police found a runaway girl from Texas just two hours after they received a TRAK transmission from Texas police.
TRAK images are much clearer than faxed photos.
If you fax a photograph it comes out like an inked thumbprint. The TRAK system can isolate an image from almost any photo. In San Francisco, a class photo was the only thing available when a girl named Christine was kidnapped. But that was enough to get a clear picture of her and include it in a flyer. When the flyer was shown on the 5 o'clock news, Christine's abductors got scared by the publicity and released her that night.