A Man with a Briefcase Robbing banks is soooo 1980.
Net crime is the crime of the future.
If the Briefcase contains a laptop and cell phone, the take goes up dramatically. Even though technology crime has just become popular over the last decade, its financial impact has already mounted to the billions of dollars in California alone. In addition, a national study of Fortune 1000 companies in 1998 by War Room Research Inc. found that a majority of the companies had experienced an Internet break-in during 1997. When California's state Legislature passed legislation to fund three high-technology crimes task forces and build an intelligence database to support their efforts, they had a previous success in mind. The complex relational database that allows officers to store, access and categorize intelligence on gangs was a huge success that has spread across the country.