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Predictive Policing: What Can We Learn from Wal-Mart and Amazon about Fighting Crime in a Recession?
In the current economic climate, police departments are being asked to do more with less. In some localities, significant budget reductions are requiring police managers and command staff to consider ...
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Eyewitness testimony is an important investigative tool and extremely compelling in court. Unfortunately mistaken eyewitness identification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions nationw...
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It seems most unlikely that, with all the checks and balances of the criminal justice system, someone today could be convicted of a crime he or she did not commit. The unfortunate reality, however, is...
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At the 115th Annual IACP Conference held in 2008 in San Diego, the Police Investigative Operations Committee, the Police Image and Ethics Committee, and the Forensics Committee adopted a resolution su...
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The nomenclature involved with intelligence-led policing (ILP), the intelligence-sharing environment (ISE), and the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan (NCISP) can be overwhelming and confusin...
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On December 17, 1967, a hunter found human skeletal remains in a wooded area of Balsam Lake Provincial Park in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. There was no evidence of clothing at the scene other th...
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Millions of children are developing virtual friendships around the world by connecting through the Internet. It is in this innocent environment that pedophiles are also aggressively targeting the rela...
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Every day across the United States, investigations slow or stop, causing cases to go unsolved. Many police agencies lack the manpower, equipment, and funding to support units dedicated to investigatin...
