and what happens when you're a department that takes in $x million in federal funds but you aren't raking in as many criminals as projected (or you rake them in

and what happens when you're a department that takes in $x million in federal funds but you aren't raking in as many criminals as projected (or you rake them in, and there aren't any left) ? Have to make use of that budget somehow, or else you'll lose all your cool high-tech toys. I know, let's point the surveillance at people not suspected of a crime. We can certainly find criminals if we search hard enough, and thanks to Parallel Construction, they never even know how we found them.