It was the point of it. A crime had been committed, and nobody would help. The cost of training officers to track computer crime. Training options also are limited. Whether they have jurisdiction if the victim and the suspect are in different towns or states.
Every officer working cyberspace is one less officer fighting bad guys on a community's streets.
Local departments often rely on state and federal agencies, but those officers juggle heavy cybercrime caseloads. But that didn't happen until Dukes had been turned down by several other agencies. Donald Daufenbach, a senior special agent with the U.S. Customs Service, says it makes sense for federal agencies to handle Internet crimes because they often cross state borders. There are days when I receive 15 cases referred to me alone. You can't keep up with it.