Byron Dorgan: “The fastest growing area of crime in this country is juvenile crime, especially violent juvenile crime. I find it…”

“The fastest growing area of crime in this country is juvenile crime, especially violent juvenile crime. I find it interesting that if you access the NCIC or the III, the Interstate Identification Index, to find out who is on there, who committed crimes in this country, what you find is some of the most violent crimes committed are not in those records because they are committed by a juvenile. You will not have access, as a judge or a police officer, by accessing the identification index. One of the things we worked on for years is very simple, and we are not there yet. It requires a lot of attention by Congress. That is having a computer system, so that on a computer in this country we have the records of every convicted felon in America. If the Senator from Oregon would go to a department store this afternoon to buy a shirt and use a credit card to buy a shirt, they will take that credit card and run it through a little machine that is an imager that determines the magnetic strip on the card, and then in 20 seconds they will tell the Senator from Oregon whether his credit card is good or not.”