Law Enforcement's Rapid Identification System

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Many Law enforcements depend on rapid identification systems. The reason for this is law enforcement can take every criminal DNA and store it in a system and be able to access it, if needed or to find a criminal if she or he commits a crime. Also, law enforcement is dependent on identification computers because law enforcement doesn’t want a system that will crash. For example, if computers were to crash, police wouldn’t be able to identify if the criminal is telling the truth about who he or she is. Therefore, the computers law enforcement uses should be solid and efficient. Also, FBI depended on systems to keep track of their criminal record databases, because many criminals like to hack Law Enforcement computers. Law enforcement spends billions …show more content…

The system they use to keep the data in one network is Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System or IAFIS, this was launched on July 28, 1999 (Next Generation Identification, 2015). This system records national fingerprinting and criminal history system. This system responds to law enforcement request twenty-four seven for each day of the year. This system just doesn’t help local law enforcement, but it helps state, federal partners, and investigators. Law Enforcement depends on this system because it helps prevent and solve the crime or helps law enforcement catch criminals and terrorists. But this system just doesn’t save criminals fingerprinting but it keep criminals mug shots, history of offences, scars the criminal might have, tattoos, height and weight of the criminals. Also, this system is depended by law enforcement because it is the largest system in the world. This system has over seventy million subjects recorded, 34 million civil prints according to FBI. Also, includes fingerprints from 73,000 known and suspected terrorists processed by the U.S. or by international law enforcement agencies who work with us (Next Generation Identification, 2015). Another reason law enforcement depends on this system is because of the response time it has. The response time is 27 minutes for electronic criminal fingerprinting and 12 minutes for civil submissions according to the

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