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technology

Running Head : TRACKING CRIME THROUGH DATABASES

Tracking Crime Through Databases : A Modern Perspective

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Abstract

With the current climate of violent attacks against women , children ad the elderly , the community looks to government to provide a better means of protection and detection . Not only that , serial criminals are a major threat in the modern society as well . There have been procedures done by agencies for the thorough investigation of serious crime , but , personnel who need information about violent crime cases do not connect with the

br investigators who have that knowledge . Through the development of new techniques and information storage systems , police officers can obtain sufficient information when working on crime cases . Information technology (IT ) has enhanced communication for law enforcement , allowing departments to close violent crime cases with the arrest of an offender Tracking Crime Through Databases : A Modern Perspective

Computer databases are a must in our so-called digital world . It has become a necessity , not just in the industrial sector , medical sector but in the criminal sector as well . By retrieving s easily , these databases save time

The primary purpose of law enforcement agencies is to protect the lives and the property of both the community 's citizens and people who visit and work in the

community . In to fulfill their duty , that is , to meet the challenges posed by today 's highly mobile and technically sophisticated criminals , the State Police has developed an array of specialized investigative services . Violent Criminal and Apprehension Program (ViCAP , and Modus Operandi (MO ) databases are two such tools devised to capture relevant information on mystery cases

Before criminal databases , law enforcement agencies have always gathered information by relying heavily on police investigators . The probability that gathered infor mation was subject to human error escaped them . Also , it appears that a lot of government agencies can provide assistance with criminal cases . In his , Scheffer (2003 he supports this view

Traditionally , the provision of an intelligence service has been based on modus operandi (MO ) information supplied by police investigators However , forensic laboratories have a large amount of information on cases in their archives which has the potential to disclose information that would be of considerable assistance to criminal investigations

However , criminal databases are not meant to replace MO systems , but were created to aid and complement them , by providing substantial information if police investigators could only shed a vague of the case (Scheffer , 2003

As to the origins of ViCAP . it originated from an idea by local law enforcement and the late Pierce Brooks . In an article for the FBI , Mr Witzig (2003 ) wrote

In 1956 , Mr . Brooks investigated the murders of two Los Angeles women who had replied to an advertisement for photographic models . Their bodies , tied with rope in such a fashion as to suggest that the killer might practice bondage , subsequently were found in the desert . Mr Brooks , convinced that these were not the killer 's first murders and that the offender would kill again , devised...

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