The Report to the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection[?] (1997) stated, "Cybercops are law enforcement personnel whose beat is cyberspace." According to Microsoft's Justice and Public Safety Division[?] Marketing Manager Reeves[?], over 2,000 law enforcement organizations[?] had connected to the internet by 1996. Noted Reeves, "[The Internet is] another protective device, just like the bulletproof vest." The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Firearms Chief Vince[?] stated, "[The federal computer system] is...the most powerful law enforcement tool I have ever seen."
There is much objection to cybercops, mostly from Civil Libertarians[?].
The Patriot Act greatly expanded the abilites of cybercops to collect data from the Internet.
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