After all, a wealth of information would exist in them, and a few well-place hacks could save a foreign intelligence service tens of millions of dollars and possibly millions of “man hours” trying to obtain the same or similar information. The states and municipalities around the nation simply don’t have the financial resources to create their own and the US taxpayer is unlikely to want to spend vastly larger sums to create another, similar system.The security - Databases like the ones shown on the series Criminal Minds would be targets for both criminal hackers as well as foreign intelligence services. The FBI is seeking nearly $100 million USD per year from Congress to work on upgrades to the system which according to the attached.
Question: Does Law Enforcement really have the massive databases & records on citizens as seen on TV?No…they don’t.Why?The costs - The NCIC ( ) is maintained by the FBI and is the largest criminal database in the nation and probably, the world.
