September 2011

Shining a Forensic Light on the Warfight

Since 2004, the Department of Defense (DOD) has been using forensic science tools on the battlefield. Traditional law enforcement techniques are being used to attack improvised explosive device (IED) ...

Technology

The Arizona National Park Service Unit: Applying Advanced Investigative Science to Protecting the Nation’s Natural Treasures

The job requires visits to places where the terrain is steep and rocky, with narrow footpaths used to smuggle people and drugs. Individuals employed here experience the extremes of nature; summer temp...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Traffic Safety Initiatives: Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT): Washington State’s Efforts to Reduce Collisions Involving Commercial Vehicles

Basic physics tells us that when a passenger vehicle is involved in a collision with a large truck—a vehicle used in commerce with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 10,000 pounds—the like...

Terrorism

What Law Enforcement Needs to Know about Improvised Explosives

On February 22, 2010, terrorist Najibullah Zazi pled guilty to conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiring to commit murder in a foreign country, and providing material support to a fore...