The law enforcement community, however, has made little progress in creating a national system to trade information on unsolved murders. Nebraska publishes a monthly crime bulletin that is sent to neighboring states. Colorado does not. But if it solved one homicide, it would be worth it. And I'm sure you would solve more than one.
Local departments can and do issue teletypes sometimes nationally on specific cases.
But other departments use their own discretion in distributing that information to officers on the street, and stringent rules keep departments from overloading the system with information. Longmont and many other jurisdictions in Colorado and its neighboring states are members of the Rocky Mountain Information Network. The subscriber-only service serves as an information exchange between departments in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, Montana and Nevada. But the network is a poor replacement for a statewide or national information-sharing system. On the state level, he said, the effort could be coordinated by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation as part of the Colorado Crime Information Computer system.