The right way to do it would be for the FBI to have a secure crowdsourcing platform that volunteers can work on after major criminal or terrorist incidents. Vol

The right way to do it would be for the FBI to have a secure crowdsourcing platform that volunteers can work on after major criminal or terrorist incidents. Volunteers should be required (as a condition of volunteering) not to discuss their results with other people. Only the raw classification and identification data is valuable here. The feedback cycles created by public discourse and news media are terribly flawed and often very harmful. It would be much better to use an automated back end to process the data, seek further verification and then ultimately bring it to the attention of human investigators.