FBI database
Federal crime repository
A centralized collection of records maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, containing criminal histories, fingerprints, DNA profiles, and other law enforcement data.
The term often appears in crime reporting and procedural dramas: His name came up in an FBI database, She ran the prints through the FBI database.
Access is restricted to authorized agencies, making a "hit" in the database significant evidence in investigations.
- fingerprintsRidge patterns identifying individuals
- criminal recordsOfficial documentation of convictions
- criminal historyRecord of past offenses
- background checkInvestigation of someone's history
- background investigationScrutiny of someone's history
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