Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. and other experts performed a forensic autopsy on the 2004 election and pronounced their collective diagnosis -- the American electoral process was deeply traumatized, chronically dysfunctional and susceptible to covert abuse by computerized criminals.
The fingerprints will be checked immediately against computerized intelligence and criminal databases already available to immigration agents at the ports.
Basic checks against the bureau's roster of criminals are computerized and go quickly, officials said.
The image, converted to a still picture, was being compared against a computerized databank of known criminals.
The database is similar to the FBI's human CODIS, a computerized archive that stores DNA profiles from criminal offenders and crime scenes and is used in criminal and missing persons investigations.
Records from EZ-Pass, the computerized toll-collection system, have already been used in criminal investigations, Mr. Rotenberg said.
She said Mr. Correnti's name was placed on the board's computerized list of those never to be hired again because of either criminal or administrative wrongdoing.
A criminal quite like Sobhraj would be impossible now: Interpol is computerized; a person can't hop on and off airplanes and cross frontiers with nothing but fast talk, sexy smiles, and crappily forged passports; every jewelry store in the world has surveillance cameras, and soon every street in the world will have them too.
The phones, which cannot make or receive calls, enable officers on foot patrol, for the first time, to look up a person's criminal history and verify their identification by quickly gaining access to computerized arrest files, police photographs, and state Department of Motor Vehicles databases.
And on the theory that the poor are likely to harbor criminal tendencies, applicants for safety net programs are increasingly subjected to finger-printing and computerized searches for outstanding warrants.
See also computerized typesetting.
