Arizona

In a perfect world, this would be amazing news. The problem here is, the actual police are corrupt. So it may not matter how much access every police dept has, if they want to wrongfully frame you, they will.

In a perfect world, it would mean rape scene forensics could be collected in one city, and be shared nationwide. So when another rape happens 3 states over, they can be linked.

Instead, I think what will happen is one rape will happen, no evidence is gathered, so police just patrol the city until they find an old condom on the side of the street. Now suddenly, some guy who threw a used condom out his car window is wanted for rape, in a system tracking statewide, for a woman he never even met.

Then, if he’s ever pulled over for speeding, or a busted tail light, now he’s arrested because they see his history.

This is just one case where it sounds uplifting, until you remember who the police are.

Now, it seems positive and all allow it to be positive, but everything needs to make money. And so, since the public sector has no money, it makes me wonder if this is actually going to work. Because if you consolidate things, it means that things are starting to fall apart, like corporations that eventually absorb each other, and then we’re left with monopoly and the lowest common denominator. So you got to think critically about some of these things. I am a negative Nancy. A pessimist by trade.