Chapter 276 Locating the Murderer

Evening.

Everyone worked overtime today.

Brian took the time to use facial restoration technology to sketch the possible appearance of the eight victims, and asked Old Harden to print many copies. He also used the police's crime system to retrieve the portraits of these victims.

People are divided into skin and flesh and bone and flesh.

The facial restoration technology of the deceased relies on this logic to restore the appearance.

Although Brian saw the corpses of the victims, he could easily restore the approximate appearance of those people in his mind.

This is a very powerful technology.

If these victims have a criminal record before and are photographed for archiving.

Then the identity of the victim can be directly locked through the computer's portrait retrieval technology.

As a result, the database did not find any information about the criminals who met the conditions.

This means that these victims were obedient citizens and had never been to prison.

However, Brian's hard work will not be in vain.

If Green and Ivan and others do not gain much from the information investigation, they can also take the sketches of these victims and conduct visits and inquiries in the surrounding communities.

However, this will take a lot of time and energy, and can only be used as an alternative.

This is actually due to the citizen system here.

In Brian's previous life in China, he could easily scan the sketches of these people into the computer, then open the national population management system, use the computer to directly search for portraits, and finally quickly lock the identity of the victim.

Once the identity is determined, combined with his previous analysis, the case will be much easier to investigate.

It's not the same here.

Even for the NW organization, the database authority is limited to the LAPD police database.

In the database, there are only detailed criminal management files, and the information of other citizens is not very transparent. The main reason is that there are too many overlaps between various official agencies, the population is very mobile, the management between departments is not unified at all, the state, county and city are seriously divided, and the law enforcement is chaotic.

At present, the only one who has done relatively well in this regard is probably the FBI.

Their database is connected to the police database in each region, and citizens' information can be retrieved at will without being restricted by region.

Old Harden comforted Brian:

"In fact, there are many sources of citizen databases, such as vehicle management and driver's license processing agencies, which all have their own citizen systems.

The biggest problem is the chaotic management.

At present, all states have realized this problem and they are considering real-time updates of citizen databases.

At least I heard that the new generation of police cars will be equipped with office small computers.

The computer will be connected to the dispatch center and have accurate electronic map navigation. Patrolmen can use the dispatch center to locate the reported location as quickly as possible, and patrolmen can also ask for suspect information through the dispatch center. Determine the suspect's citizen information carefully. "

Brian shrugged: "Why don't you build a crawler system, and our team build a complete database ourselves?"

Old Harden rolled his eyes:

"Brian, this is illegal. I am an old man in my sixties. You can't send me to jail, otherwise no one will help you with your game development plans.

In addition, the network security department doesn't like this.

No one is a fool.

Everyone knows how to be more efficient.

The reasons for not doing this are very complicated.

We don't need to make trouble for ourselves. "

"What's complicated?" Brian asked curiously.

Old Harden didn't want to say this, but the person who asked him was Brian.

Brian is very generous, treats his own people very well, has outstanding abilities, and has a promising future. Of course, these are not the reasons why Old Harden compromised. The biggest reason for his compromise is only one: Brian is narrow-minded.

So Harden could only tell the truth:

"This is a huge industry chain involving multiple departments.

For example, identity trafficking. If you are willing to spend money, you can have countless real and legal identities.

The second is witness protection. For example, some gang members betray their own people, or some ordinary people are required to testify against some dangerous guys in court. In order to protect them, they will generally be given a new identity and address to live in afterwards.

There are also various undercover jobs.

Money laundering, embezzlement, and some financial businesses such as loan fraud...

In short, this is a huge gray area.

Plus, no one likes to be decentralized.

The combination of various factors has led to the current decentralized management of official organizations.

Sometimes I feel that the United States of America is not a country at all, but It is a large capital company composed of many small companies, which are connected together only by common external interests and responding to external crises.

When this external interest disappears.

Sometimes I suspect that a war of division will break out between the states in our country in order to compete for internal interests. "

The female clerk on the side rolled her eyes: "Old Harden, your words make me feel strange. I would rather believe that you are worried that the war will cause you to not get your pension, and I don't believe that you will care about the fate of this country. "

Old Harden touched his head awkwardly: "Well, there is indeed this reason. This is why I like Los Angeles. At least if this day really comes, staying in California, we can still maintain a good life. "

Brian was not interested in this topic.

Deep down in his heart, there has always been some kind of unspeakable and unknown gap with the world, which has led to him having a casual attitude of drifting with the crowd and not caring where he lives. Otherwise, he would not still be living in the same apartment now. in.

This kind of mentality will probably be much better after he marries Susan and has his own blood descendants.

As for now

He wants to solve this case first, and then drive to the beach to practice his sword skills, or maybe change into a new set of clothes and wander around this bustling city, looking for opportunities to work part-time.

So, Brian interrupted the two people's increasingly distant chat: "Old Harden, what I mean is, if in the name of outsourcing, I ask you to get a set of California crawler databases that are updated at a fixed time, how long will it take? time."

"Outsourcing?"

Old Harden didn't react.

Brian nodded: "Ahem, temporary workers. The kind of temporary workers who have bad records but get away with it."

Old Harden suddenly said: "This is possible, and the technical difficulty is not great, but it needs to avoid the website security protection of those institutions and the supervision of the network security department. This takes time, and it takes at least more than one person to purchase independent servers and the like. Time is not as simple as you think.”

"Then it seems there is no way to do this in this case."

Brian nodded, then took out Susan's checkbook, wrote a line of numbers on it, tore it off and threw it to Old Harden: "But let's do it. This is the fund, and the team will reimburse you."

After seeing the numbers above clearly, Old Harden smiled happily: "I like reimbursement! By the way, Brian, do I need to give you some rebates?"

Brian shook his head: "You deserve this."

Talent is rare.

As for money, it's just a bunch of numbers.

Brian is already preparing to recruit Harden Sr. and all his friends on the Internet in the future.

Now, whether it is a game company or the current database crawler business, it is just to keep them sweet.

Cooperate more often.

It will be easy to start later.

It’s okay if you don’t want to.

Ready-made evidence of crime: stealing information from official databases, endangering national security, and infringing on citizens' privacy. If you don't give him a job, let them go in, and then make them come to work with meritorious services. Even their wages can be suppressed. After all, there are many ways to do it. Different paths lead to the same destination.

“It’s nice to have power..”

Brian muttered in his mind and looked at Old Harden with an even more kind look.

Old Harden couldn't stand Brian's affection, so he put away the check and changed the subject:

"Well, by the way, Brian, what are you going to name your crow?

How about Caesar?

Some time ago I watched a movie about apes replacing humans, and the ape was named Caesar.

The small-billed crow is a social animal. In the future, it may be able to command a large number of crows to help us do things. "

"Sounds good but you should discuss it with Thirteen. He is the little crow's big brother."

Brian said casually.

Thirteen, who was lying on the table, shook his ears and licked the little meat ball in his arms in response: "Wangwangwang~"

Old Harden and the female clerk looked at Brian: "What are Thirteen talking about?"

"It says it's called savory meatballs."

Everyone was discussing the name of the little crow, and a slightly tired Green hurried back to the office.

He also had a whole box of information in his hand.

"Boss Brian, these are the information you want. I went to the community office specifically and accidentally got some temporary worker information that meets your requirements from several agencies. Fortunately, these things are not valuable. Those intermediaries were thrown into the box and preserved.

But my group of buddies didn’t gain much.

The gang over there almost misunderstood them, and it was only Ivan and the others who rushed over that prevented a fight.

It took some time.

Now that Ivan and his friends, as well as my friends, have taken care of the gang over there, we will probably gain something tonight. "

Speaking of this, Green was a little helpless.

The poorer the neighborhood, the more active gang members are.

They are hostile and suspicious of all strangers who enter the community. They will come up to you and ask you why you are here. They have a bad attitude. If they are high on drugs, they will even attack you for no apparent reason.

This special environment caused great obstacles to the Green Brothers' inquiry work.

Brian nodded: "Fortunately, you have done a good job, Green."

Susan went to help Brian with the 'Botanical Garden'.

So Brian has been spending a lot of personal time lately.

He was prepared to stay up late to work on the case.

Old Harden and the female clerk also stopped discussing Little Crow's name and joined in to help.

The four people began to classify and organize the information brought back by Green.

The first thing Brian looked at was the information about the home's previous owner.

The other party is a Mexican with a wife and three children. He is a contractor and leads a group of Mexicans to do some cheap decoration and temporary work. He has no criminal record in the United States.

But the other party disappeared.

Ivan and the others had investigated each other before, and they only knew that the owner of the house took his family and drove away overnight without saying goodbye. Only a few Mexicans who often followed him to work knew about this.

From the data point of view, there is not much information available.

Brian could only flip through the remaining information.

The gain is small.

Unless these migrant workers have families, most of them are temporary workers, illegal workers, etc. Their lives are unstable. They work one day and rest a few days. The replacement rate is very high, and there is very little personal information left.

No one cares about these bottom-level people.

As a country with many immigrants and illegal workers, it can continuously siphon cheap labor from the surrounding areas. In addition, these people are not even qualified to vote, so no one cares about their situation.

Finally, it was Edna, a female clerk, who found out through Green's resumes stored by those intermediaries: "Hey, everyone, look at the photos on these resumes. They look like the sketches of the victims drawn by Brian!"

These people are temporary workers who have registered their personal information with those intermediaries and left their resumes and photos. Among them are indigenous people and illegal immigrants.

She put three photos on the conference table.

Everyone looked at it and it was true.

Two women and one man looked like they were in their thirties or forties.

These resumes were marked by Green's intimate source.

According to the marking, these three people had submitted their resumes to an intermediary.

Edna, the clerk, was very happy: "Does this mean that this agency is highly suspicious?"

Green and Old Harden shook their heads at the same time.

Old Harden explained to the clerk who was a former policewoman:

"Agencies are just a way to find work. They often leave their resumes in all agencies, and the overlap is very high.

This group of people, most of the time, will squat in the labor market, especially illegal workers. Many experienced bosses will drive a small car and go there directly to find cheap workers. They don't care about the identity of the workers at all.

Workers also like this because it can save a sum of agency fees, but there is also the possibility of being cheated by the employer."

Green nodded:

"Some employers are very bad. They deliberately find some illegal workers without work cards to do the work, and then report those illegal workers through the Immigration Bureau.

This way, you don't have to spend money directly, and they are not business premises, so they don't have to be fined for hiring illegal workers, and they are for In order to avoid retaliation afterwards, they will deliberately select Chinese illegal workers who don't like to cause trouble.

It is also for this reason that many Chinese illegal workers would rather be cheated by the intermediaries than by these people.

After all, they come here at the risk of their lives, and would rather suffer a little loss than be sent back. "

Brian looked at Green in surprise: "How do you know this?"

Green smiled: "When I went to the community office to apply for information today, a Chinese who was registering told me that he had suffered such a loss, but I still admire this group of people. In my impression, they are generally very smart, can mix well, are very hardworking, and value education. If we black people can learn from them, our social status will definitely be much better. "

Old Harden on the side heard this and sneered.

A lot better?

Green is still too young.

The demise of the O'Doland Black Panther Party explains a lot of things.

There are also some special systems..

Green looked at Old Harden in confusion: "Man, what, am I wrong?"

Old Harden sighed: "Have you noticed that many people in our black community have lived with their mothers since childhood and do not have a complete family?"

Green disagreed: "That's why I think we need to change our consciousness, and we are still very united. Many of my brothers' families are taken care of by their brothers and sisters on their father's side, or their fathers are still around, but they just don't live together."

Seeing this, Old Harden lost interest in the conversation: "Continue to find photos."

Brian also stopped eating melons.

In fact, he understood what Old Harden meant.

An authoritative organization has investigated that more than 70% of black people in the United States have no "father" and grew up in missing single-parent families since childhood.

They believe that this is also the main factor for the high crime rate among the black community.

This situation is not only related to the living habits left over from African blacks, but also related to the various single-parent benefits vigorously promoted by the federal government later: if you are an unemployed single mother, you can enjoy various social welfare benefits and receive various subsidies.

To sum up: it is difficult to raise a child with a father, but if you don't worry about the child's future, you can raise a lot of children.

This has led to the situation that in order to enjoy these benefits, many black families, even if they have a good relationship, suffer from the pressure of their own income. In order to avoid occasional inspections, the father of the child simply ran away and only went back to visit occasionally.

Others are not stupid. Seeing that it can still be done, they will follow suit.

It won't take long.

In at most 20 years, these people have ruined themselves and lost the healthy model of a healthy family. They can't make the family better through collective accumulation from generation to generation, and it is difficult to turn over.

But these are also personal choices.

Brian does not sympathize.

After several people checked.

They found the information of the remaining victims from the resumes provided by various agents.

This is the same as Brian's inference.

These victims are all a group.

After connecting with these agents, they found something more amazing.

According to the information of the current owner of the house of this group of victims, Brian and others found that the other party had actually worked for one of the agencies.

And this agency has also served these victims..

There is no need to investigate the case now.

Brian said to Green: "Contact Ivan and others directly and ask them to bring back the current owner of the house. By the way, Old Harden, go prepare some props. If the other party does not cooperate, let him learn to be honest!"

"No problem!"

The two began to get busy.

"What about me?"

The female clerk felt that it was a bit redundant for her to stay and work overtime.

Brian shrugged: "Help us order some midnight snacks, I'll treat you."

It was a little after nine o'clock in the evening.

A middle-aged man with a kind face was forcibly taken to the office building by Ivan and others.

Looking at the other party's aggrieved and confused appearance.

Brian clenched his fist.

He was very curious about why the other party would kill a group of worthless low-level people!