Clearly, we don't have any expertise with respect to law enforcement, but unfortunately on Tuesday I believe Sergeant Nezan commented that the national sex offender registry had not been used to solve a single crime. If there are ways from a systems perspective to make it easier and quicker to search the information in the database to deal with the very understandable need to get access to information as quickly as possible, by all means make those system changes--whatever is required. However, I understand there are 19,000 names in the registry now. If with 19,000 names it hasn't been used to solve a crime, would increasing that to 25,000 or 28,000 suddenly make it significantly more efficient? It's not clear to me why that would be the case. I think until you have a very clear idea of why it's not more effective it's very difficult to get a sense of what the changes needed are to make it more effective.
On April 23rd, 2009. See this statement in context.