The Justice Department has created a database to track federal law enforcement officers who commit serious misconduct in an effort to prevent federal agencies from unwittingly hiring problematic officers.
Homeland Security’s former acting inspector general has been indicted on charges of stealing government proprietary software and databases containing personal information on more than 250,000 government employees – all in an effort to elevate his private business.
President Obama’s administration acknowledged this weekend that it approved about 175 immigrants for citizenship without properly running their names through the FBI’s name-check databases.
The FBI tracks records on plenty of crimes, but it has not collected statistics on the number of times police use force when interacting with the public.
The FBI is working on technology that would allow law enforcement to track and sort people based on their tattoos.
Hawaii is poised to become the first state in the nation to enter gun owners into an FBI database.
Beginning this year, the FBI will begin tracking the animal cruelty cases to keep an eye on the worst abuse in the country.
FBI Director James Comey expressed frustration Wednesday’s with the federal government’s failure to better track police-involved shooting.
