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FBI's computer tracks drunks across state lines
THE FBI has lifted the lid on a new national computer system that it says will help coppers work out if a suspect has drunken driving offences pending in other US states.
Currently a drink driver's criminal record is a bit of a mystery to arresting officers. While they might know all the gory details of the tipsy criminal in their state, they may not know about shedloads of other convictions in another. Of course if the suspect has any sense they will keep their mouth shut.
But the FBI's National Data Exchange, N-DEx, could put an end to all that by linking local, state and federal records.
Tom Bush, assistant director of the FBI's criminal justice information services said that N-DEx will search, link, analyse, and share criminal justice information including arrest and incident reports, incarceration data, and probation data nationwide.
The scheme is being piloted and will be gradually rolled out nationwide by 2010.
Of course while the FBI is talking about things like drink drivers, it won't be long until all data on all types of crime are shared nationally. µ
L'Inq
AP
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For those readers in place but struggling: Yes, you should do whatever you can to destroy that system because it has no good purpose and is not what the FBI was set up for.

What's wrong, Nick, running out of clever subtitles?

The NCIC has existed for over forty years. It looks to me like N-DEx is what perhaps the NCIC should have grown into but did not.
This puts me in mind of SCMODS from the film The Blues Brothers.

The officer taps in a few details, and it immediately flashes up ARREST DRIVER ... IMPOUND VEHICLE.