Law Enforcement Identification System

Issue

   Many criminal cases go unsolved due to the lack of information being available to investigators regarding a suspect who may be domestic or foreign born. Law enforcement needs a better system to identify suspects on a global scale.

Solution

   The international community should adopt a global biometric identification system that contains information on every person in the world. Finger/palm prints, retinal/iris scans, DNA samples, voice recordings, and photographic images of facial and other physical characteristics should be stored into the system.

   Businesses will be required to register their employees into the system, and non-working individuals will be required to register for public services. Biometric gathering will also be conducted at international points of entry to ensure an accurate accounting of all the personnel entering a nation.

   Some people may have concern over the invasion of privacy issue, however, the community also needs to consider the consequences of not allowing law enforcement the ability to apprehend suspects for the sake of public safety as well.

Other Considerations

   As an additional measure to assist law enforcement, all gun manufacturers and owners should be required to register their firearm's forensic ballistic information into a similar system (i.e. firearm's fingerprint). This will aid law enforcement if firearms were used in situations where DNA or other means are not available for the investigation. Also, with this policy in effect, a firearm will not be allowed to be sold unless its ballistic information is registered into the system.

   To further assist law enforcement, the international community should also consider inhibiting the various ways that criminals use to acquire money from their victims. Such as banning all forms of cryptocurrency, gift cards, wire transfers, check cashing apps, and other means of indirection. Doing so would make it more difficult for criminals to hide their tracks when committing a crime with these methods. Besides, the world was fine before any of these conveniences were in place, so we'll be fine after they're gone as well.