A person living in today's world can't help but notice that most all businesses use computers. These businesses use computers to do many things, but it seems to me that most computer activities in the business world are for three main reasons: (1) identification of their product, (2) tracking of their product, and

(3) communication of some kind, either with me as a customer, or with the place that supplies the business with their products to sell. As I started to gather information about the use of computers in law enforcement, a new area for me, I began to realize that computers in law enforcement seem to be used for the same three reasons as computers in business.

In law enforcement, the product is the criminal. In order to identify the criminal, there are lots of databases that law enforcement officers can use, if they are up on the latest technology. Finger printing identification is available through the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System that has about 40 million fingerprints in it.

Another database that police use is the National Crime Information Center 2000. This is a database on missing persons, stolen vehicles, stolen property, and criminal

A new type of database that is just being started by most states is the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network. This database includes pictures or images of shell casings and bullets found at crime scenes. The computer stores these images. Police can search the database for other images that match theirs. Often the police find other crimes committed by the same gun they are searching about. This helps to solve many crimes. Also, some states are thinking about taking pictures of shell casings and bullets fired from guns, before they are sold in stores to individuals. They are doing this so a record of each gun can be entered into this database. Then, if this same gun is used in a crime in the future, it can be identified with its owner.

much like a successful business. We as citizens will be the ones to benefit.

There are companies that are hired to work with law enforcement and police departments all across America to design software especially for a certain police department. These companies go to the police department, where they try to figure out what type of software program they need. The software that is made is anything from training officers using computers, to making a software program that tracks the entire process, from the first time a police report is received, to the investigation, to the court appearance of the person the police think committed the crime.

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