They're saying that most individual police departments don't have the IT resource to scale a crowdsourcing system, and that by centralizing both the resources a

They're saying that most individual police departments don't have the IT resource to scale a crowdsourcing system, and that by centralizing both the resources and software development they expect the system to be able to scale. In reality they're just exposing themselves to a single point of failure, but hoping their single point of failure is more robust by virtue of shared learning.