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FIGURE 6.2 The National Crime Information Center facilitated the arrest of Timothy
McVeigh for the 1995 bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. (© Bob E.
Daemmrich/Sygma/Corbis)
6.3.4 OneDOJ Database
The OneDOJ database, managed by the US Department of Justice, provides state and
local police officers access to information supplied by five federal law enforcement agen-
cies: the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms,
and Explosives, the US Marshals Service, and the Bureau of Prisons. The database, called
OneDOJ, stores incident reports, interrogation summaries, and other information not
presently available through the National Crime Information Center. At the end of 2006,
the OneDOJ database already contained more than one million records.
Critics of the OneDOJ database point out that it gives local police officers access to
information about people who have not been arrested or charged with any crime. Barry
Steinhardt of the American Civil Liberties Union said, “Raw police files or FBI reports
can never be verified and can never be corrected. . . . The idea that the whole system is
going to be full of inaccurate information is just chilling” [8].
 
 
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