The potential for solving crimes using computerized forensic database systems is enormous.
All forensic databases work in the same manner.
Each of these systems actually consists of two separate databases - a database of samples from known sources, and a database of samples from unknown sources taken from unsolved crimes. To continue this crime solving technology, significant funding is needed in state FY-01. Additional fiscal resources will be needed in subsequent fiscal years, to maintain the timely processing of offender samples. Analyzing offender samples is only one part of the challenge confronting the forensic sciences in establishing a successful national DNA database. This is a tremendous task which requires enormous resources.