In this policy I propose we give our law enforcement the tools to do their jobs efficiently. By merging databases and incorporating into a national database. This would provide our law enforcement the ability to get criminals off our streets with less hassle and doing so also would essentially make the FBI for instance irrelevant. Allowing our states to do what they should have been doing this entire time.
1 Removal of Drivers Privacy Protection Act (DPPA). This act limits the ability of our law enforcement. Effectively making it useless to find criminals homes to pick them up there. It also does not allow them to search for illegal immigrants and locate them efficiently. States like California provide drivers licenses to illegals and they also provide their address. Our law enforcement officers should be allowed to utilize this information.
2 Allow law enforcement to access National Crime Information Center freely. Currently each state maintains its own records. However without contacting FBI or other states they are unaware of felons from other states. This includes all criminal activity, this has allowed many to hide just by changing states. The time to submit requests and have them approved can be time consuming. Also if unknown which state the felon went to it would be hard to figure out which state you specifically need to access.
- Allow state and local police to arrest for federal crimes. This is just logical why pay another agency to do what our officers can already do? Also by doing this we eliminate the FBI bringing that money home to each state this now improves training for our officers on our streets daily. It will also make it much harder to utilize one branch improperly as each state is run independently. Our officers are already on the street why not utilize them? Especially when local police know the area far better than someone who has done nothing but sat in a office in DC for years. To fully understand this you need to realize FBI was created to go after criminals crossing state lines. This being during 1908 when law enforcement could not communicate across jurisdictions. Also it was due the lack of training of local officers and would have been far harder to bring their training equally at the time. Now we can send information to all jurisdictions at the push of a button. Our law enforcement mostly is trained well and still could use better training. However this puts those funds straight to that issue and more officers for the towns as well. As currently FBI has a budget of 11.3 billion. If this was split between states equally would be estimated of 226 million per state.