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What if law enforcement could determine during booking if the arrestee being fingerprinted and photographed matched DNA evidence left 10 years ago at a murder scene hundreds of miles away in another s...
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As noted in a 2014 Police Chief article, “Assessing the Impact of Digital Evidence on State and Local Policing,” the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) has recognized that stat...
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Across the United States, state and local law enforcement agencies face increasing demands to prevent victimization and respond to crimes in their communities. Crime data on specific incidents, as c...
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Veterinary forensics is a developing field that can assist with animal cruelty investigations. Animal abuse investigations are vital because animal maltreatment is a co-occurring and central aspect of...
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Events over the past few years, most notably the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013, have shown how valuable the public’s help can be to law enforcement. Immediately after the Boston Maratho...
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In early 2017, Louisiana authorities reported an arrest in a 2009 cold case homicide, based on a facial profile generated through DNA analysis. While DNA was recovered at the scene of the crime, it di...
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Information determines the direction and outcome of any investigation. With police investigations, a significant portion of the information collected comes from interviews with victims, witnesses, and...
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As the tools of the law enforcement profession have evolved from the days of a billy club and whistle to body-worn cameras and Tasers, so have the tools available to criminals and criminal organizatio...
