Arrest by Police Computer the Controversy Over Bail and Extradition
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National Institute of Justice 6-17-82 " United States Department of Justicle Washington, D. C. 20531 r h , . F ; 1" r " Arrest by Police Computer John J. -Murphy • f ---~~~" 1 I ~. ! I i 7 & \ Lexington Books po .... , r. ~.. Arrest by Police Computer f. I , 9' ~,• .~ I • ,. --. ",., '~ __ 4'~ _ ,~, \ I' '·1 ., , <"Ivt'l'}',it~'l>tl ',' • ",,' Arrest by Police Computer The Controversy over Bail and Extradition John J. Murphy University of Cincinnati U.S. Department of Justice National Institute of Justice This document has been reproduced e)(actly as received from the person or organization originating It. Points of view or opinions stated In this document are those of thel authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the National Institute of , Jusllce. H , i" Permission to reproduce this copyrighted material in mi J' crofiche only has been granted by ~. I. 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'~_" __ , • Contents List of Tables ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xlii Chapter 1 The Computer and Official Retrieval of Fugitives 1 Introduction 1 Tlie Advent of Computerize« D1.ta Bases on Wanted Persons 1 Police Dependency on Computerized Files on Wanted Persons 4 Direct Access by Police Patrol to Computerized Wanted Persons Files 7 The Financial Midwife of Computerized Wanted Persons Files 10 Chapter 2 Police Computers and Fugitives: More Than a Matter of Equipment 13 Privacy and Automated Wanted Persons Files 14 Arrests Based on Stale Information in Wanted Persons Files 18 Inadequacy of Extradition Laws 21 Chapter 3 The Case for Revising State Extradition Law 23 Introduction 23 \ Centrality of the Extradition Act 24 Sanctions for Police Disregard of the Act 26 The Unconstitutional Taint in Waivers of Extradition 32 Chapter 4 Replacing Bondsmen with Police in Bail Retrievals 35 Introduction 3S Eliminating Bondsmen From the State Bail System 36 Absence of Accountability in the Private Retrieval System of Bondsmen 39 Conclusion 45 vii Preceding page blank _____________ I'!L.-----~--~---- f.. ~---- f.·d __ "~;;;;;;~~~~~~ ___.... _ ......------., viii CONTENTS Chapter 5 List of Tables Extradition of Fugitives: A Blending of Principles 47 .. Extraterritorial Application of State Criminal .Law 47 Involuntary Transfer of Persons Across State Lines in the Interest of State Criminul Law S1 Chapter 6 10 The Extradition Clause, State Power, and Constitutional Controls 5S 1-1 Mobile Digital Terminal Test and Operational Programs 1-2 Grants for the Development of Computerized Data Files, Including The Dampening Effect of Federal Extradition Law SS Files on Wanted Persons 12 Fugitives and Procedures Untouched by Federal Law S7 The Extradition Clause: Mandating Minimum State Cooperation 60 Repladng Executive Extradition with Judicial Extradition 63 Constitutional Controls over State Extradition Law 64 l Chapter 7 A Person Wanted by More Than One Sovereign 67 Government's Usc of Habeas Corpus 67 The Interstate Agreement on Detainers: Unsettling Prior Law 69 Chapter 8 Alternatives for Revising the Extradition Act 7S A Proposed Act 7S Necessity of an Arrest Warrant from Demanding State 77 A Two-Tier System of Extradition 78 Probable Cause to Support Extradition 82 The Governor of the Asylum State and Extradition 84 Conclusion 85 Appendix , PopUlation Centers Crossing State Borders 89 Notes 93 Bibliography 129 Index 137 - About the Author 141 ix .• ~-... ~-.,.-- ,~. ''''''''''''''<·i!!·~•. II",""",,:;;;uI~ 1 I: ! I 1 I I Preface i i I A revolution in police patrol operations is quietly beginning. It has to do with police computers and fugitives. By the end of 1974, about 2,500 computer terminals were installed in police cars, and it is estimated that half of the nation's 75,000 police cars will be equipped with terminals by 1983. Competing with the vehicle-installed terminals will be hand-held terminals for patrol officers that are now in the developmental stages. These terminals will give police on patrol direct, electronic access to national computerized mes on wanted persons. The patrol officer will have a reply to a national search of wanted persons mes in as little as five to ten seconds. The revolution is the integration of fugitive retrieval in ordinary police patrol, and its beginning can be seen in the escalation of police dependency on computerized wanted persons mes to make decisions to arrest. Inquiries by local, state, and federal police to the national computerized file on wanted persons I ~. increased tenfold since 1968 to over nine and one-half million inquiries in 1973. I, The number of persons located after computer inquiry increased fivefold in the same period. There are dangers in this explosion in the technological capacity of police to know the wanted status of persons. Both the persons included in computerized fugitive files and the police acting upon those files could be harmed by the peU mell rush to technical refinement. The problem is not too much sophistication in police communication equipment or too tenuous a relationship between crime reduc tion and equipment, such as mobile terminals. It is the faint understanding of the social and legal implications in the enormous increase in the technological capability of police to know the wanted status of persons. There are potential privacy invasions to persons subject to arrest by officers with direct electronic access to computerized files on fugitives. In this type of arrest, the police are not \ relying upon accumulated perceptions of ('vents, but upon a system of storing and updating information. All discussion of privacy and police computers to date has centered on dissemination of arrest and conviction records. There has been silence on the privacy issues implicit in the expected reliance by police on national computerized files on wanted persons. Left unexplored is the right of persons to be relieved from harm due to arrest based on stale or inaccurate information in these computers. The police could also be harmed. The rules of law governing police in fugitive retrieval between states are intolerably inadequate to meet the growing xi Preceding page blank • I"'I":"~ .• ,,.}.,.,.. /' xii . :--. ----'--"- PREFACE capacity of pollce to acquire and exchange information on fugitives. Under I' I extradition law, nine separate state agencies must act before an out.of.state fugitive is available for the first step in the criminal process. In many cases the Acknowledgments legal procedure in retrieving a fUgitlve amounts to an antiquated catapult de. wouldsigned do.to protect interstate harmony and individual liberty When a slingshot Past toleration of this procedure was based on footings that have now be. come insecure. POlice disregard of extradItion la\\l wltich was once sanctionless, has been recently challenged SUccessfully in courts. These challenges have inclUded claims against officers personally and requests for dismissal of criminal charges because of illegal retrievals. Furthermore, it is no longer reasonable to avoid This book was written during a term as a Visiting Fellow with the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal JUstice. The reqUired acknowledg. extradition by demanding waivers of extradition as a quid qUO for parole, law pro ment of my association with the Institute is dUtifully stated below. The state probation, or other benefits in the criminal process. There is an UnConstitutional ment does not reflect, however, the freedom of inquiry that I enjoyed with the taint to a waiver of extradition law extracted from a defendant Who has no leverage to refuse the Waiver. Institute as a Fellow, nor does it suggest the support and helpful criticism that I received from Institute staff. For this, I express my gratitude.