From Quantity to Quality: Changing FBI Emphasis on Interstate Property Crimes--A Supplement

This supplement to an earlier GAO report contains the Department of Justice's comments on the GAO analysis. Justice supported the GAO recommendation to change the legislation but has taken issue with the remaining findings, conclusions, and recommendations. They gave no indication that substantial changes would be forthcoming in either prosecutive or investigative policies and practices. GAO believes that existing federal policies and practices ensure that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will continue to handle many nonquality property crime matters without solution and/or prosecution. They will be duplicating the work of state and local law enforcement agencies contrary to the cause of improving relationships with such agencies. GAO believes that its original recommendations are still valid after evaluating the Department's comments.