Law Enforcement Identification System

Issue

   Many international criminal cases go unsolved due to the lack of information being available to investigators regarding a suspect who may be domestic or foreign born. The situation could be improved if law enforcement had a comprehensive system to identify suspects on a global scale.

Solution

   The international community should develop 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 may raise concern over invasion of privacy issues, however, voters will also need to consider the consequences of not allowing law enforcement the ability to apprehend suspects for the sake of public safety.

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.

   Another means to further assist law enforcement is for the international community to 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.

   Getting voter approval of the above measures may be challenging, however, ensuring responsible voting by the public may be possible if ballots included serial numbers that correlated with the voter's identification. This will allow for the possibility of the victims to sue the responsible parties (other voters) if necessary to resolve the situation. In other words, voters may be held accountable for how they will vote on certain issues when public safety is at risk.

   Not every issue on the ballot will be designated for possible litigation, only those of high importance such
as: (1) those who voted against the above identification system that will be necessary for law enforcement to apprehend suspects in an efficient manner, (2) those who voted against gun control that resulted in military-style assault rifles remaining legal, (3) those who voted for an open border policy that endangered the public by indiscriminately allowing immigrants into the country, (4) those who voted to approve abortion (excluding cases for rape, incest, or well-being of the mother/child), etc., among other issues involving public safety.

   So, in the future, voters of a pure democracy will need to carefully consider their decisions regarding matters of importance that involve endangering the public's safety, or they may be held accountable for possible litigation as a result (ranging from obstruction of justice, to aiding and abetting, to civil charges for unnecessarily endangering another person's life, etc.).