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Technology Talk: A Kodak Moment for Law Enforcement: Using DNA Blueprints to Build Facial Composites
The use of Deoxyribonucleic acid, better known as DNA, recently crossed a new threshold in suspect and victim identification. Its use as a crime-fighting tool is likely to increase exponentially by pr...
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Police pursuits are an unfortunate, seemingly unavoidable aspect of law enforcement. Officers and others close to the pursuits issue would agree that high-speed chases have become part of U.S. culture...
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Planning is well under way for the 2015 LEIM Training Conference & Technology Exposition, which will be held May 18–20, 2015, in San Diego, California. The conference will feature plenary sessio...
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When seconds matter, emergency responders depend upon state-of-the-art technology to deliver concise and reliable information. Computer-aided dispatch (CAD) technology allows 9-1-1 telecommunicators t...
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The way crime is counted in the United States is changing, moving from monthly aggregate reporting of summary crime and arrest statistics to detailed reporting of crime and arrest activities at the in...
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Since 2012, the LEIM Section has hosted a daylong IT Summit to discuss the important technology issues facing law enforcement agencies. During his keynote speech, Smith challenged the audience to look...
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Policing crime patterns is hard business. Atlanta, Georgia, is no different than any other jurisdiction in this regard. Every day sees new crimes added to the database; and every day, the Atlanta poli...
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI’s) Next Generation Identification (NGI) program represents a leap forward in the availability of biometric services to local, state, tribal, and federal ...
