The law enforcement community, however, has made little progress in creating a national system to trade information about 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 over- loading the system with information. Many jurisdictions in Colorado and neighboring states are members of the Rocky Mountain Information Network. The subscriber-only service works as an information exchange among departments in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, Montana and Nevada. 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. A similar system, the National Crime Information Computer sys- tem, could be used to link the other states.