ViCAP

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ViCAP

In a large and industrialized country like America , crimes rates are always high . In to protect the citizens from these unfortunate incidents , the government provided security in the form of the Police Department and the Federal Bureau Investigations (FBI . The FBI is an agency whose mission is to protect and defend the country from threats as well as uphold the law , and provide criminal justices (Federal Bureau of Investigation , 2009 . In lieu of this , the agency creates programs

br that may help accomplish this mission

One of the programs of the FBI is the ViCAp or the Violent Crime Apprehension Program . This program originated from the idea of a local law enforcer and Mr . Pierce Brooks . Investigating a murder involving two women who replied to a modeling advertisement , the two concluded that the case at hand was not the first of its kind . Devising an earlier form of ViCAP in 1956 , Mr . Brooks and the local law enforcer , had a man executed for the involved murders (Witziq , 2003

From the original idea of archiving cases and using it as a reference for later cases , the current version of ViCAP keeps the records of compiled and archived cases submitted in a computer database which may be accessed as basis for new crimes . Its purpose and objective is to have different agencies and departments cooperating with each other and to provide storage for comparisons between past and current cases...