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Just over seven years ago, letters laced with anthrax spores killed five people in the United States, closed Congress and the Supreme Court, and crippled mail service for months. No other anthrax atta...
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Target operates more than 1,700 stores in 49 states nationwide, employing more than 350,000 team members in stores, distribution centers, and headquarters locations in the United States and overseas. ...
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In the early 1990s several shootings involving Miami, Florida, Police Department officers using Glock firearms received widespread media attention. It also revealed the Glock weapons’ identification...
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In the past few years, the developments in crime analysis, especially geographic analysis, have been stunning. Just 10 years ago, the job of making a map and table depicting residential burglaries in ...
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Financial and identity crimes are becoming more complex and time consuming to investigate. Frequently, these investigations can be overwhelming and intimidating for law enforcement officers. This ofte...
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Years ago, one of the authors (K.P.) was the project manager in charge of replacing his department’s computer system, and the department was trying to decide if it needed to spend thousands of dolla...
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he May 2007 issue of the Police Chief provided a brief overview of attempts to address the problem of identity crime in the European Union (EU).1 More than a year later, progress remains slow. Althoug...
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In December 2006, the Palm Bay, Florida, Police Department (PBPD) and DNA Security, Inc. (DNA:SI LABS), collaborated to develop a local agency databank of forensic DNA evidence for use on most crimes....