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There have been a handful of prosecutions (and many hundreds of firings) for misuse of the FBI's NCIC database by law enforcement officials. For instance, ex-NY
by gingerbread-man 8y ago
There have been a handful of prosecutions (and many hundreds of firings) for misuse of the FBI's NCIC database by law enforcement officials. For instance, ex-NYPD Sergeant Joseph Dwyer was convicted of conspiracy in federal court in 2016 for selling information from NCIC to private defense investigators.
Personally, I believe this kind of breach-of-trust should be prosecuted much more vigorously. But besides the fear of embarrassment, I suspect federal agencies are unwilling to
compromise intelligence methods to prosecute misbehavior.
- jjoonathan 8y agoOf course, but it shouldn't be up to them.
- syshum 8y agoThe key here is Misuse under the FBI's guidelines which are no where near as strict as they should be under a properly enforced 4th amendment, most of what the FBI collects in the first place should be unconstitutional for them to have if we had a properly enforced constitution, unfortunately we do not.