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October 14, 2011

GPS Tracking by LandAirSea Aids Murder Investigation

This murder investigation concluded with the conviction of George Ford found guilty.
March 08, 2011

Forensics technology for TASER application

When an officer deploys a TASER, some information is forensically stored on the device, but some information is not. For example, whether or not the discharge was a hit, a miss, or a partial discharge, has not — until now — been easily identifiable. Officer Chris Myers of the Seattle Police Department explains how one of the forensics experts with the Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory has devised a new way to determine the approximate length of a TASER discharge by looking at the TASER probe itself.
March 08, 2011

Don't let your gloves give you away

During an arrest, many suspects will see the common medical gloves — colored in blue and green and white — as a cue of imminent arrest. You may be able to deter and immediate threat from this by disguising your gloves. There are solutions available on the market that are harder to notice as being medical gloves which are at least worth looking into.
January 12, 2011

Forensic Video Analysis and Clarification Using dTective from Ocean Systems

Ocean Systems dTective powered by Avid Systems is the most powerful and widely used video evidence analysis and audio evidence analysis system. With dTective, you can easily enhance Digital (DVR) and Analog (Tape) evidence with a host of forensic clarification processes. This video is a groundbreaking weapon in the fight to capture and convict those who choose to break the law. Evidence captured on video has been found to be more accurate, more reliable, and more convincing than eyewitness testimony alone. But clear images are only part of the picture.
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December 21, 2010

Raw: Officer foils second robbery

Police say an officer, who went to an Ohio pharmacy to pick up security video of another robbery hours earlier, stopped a second robbery. The incident at a Walgreens in Dayton was caught on surveillance tape.
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November 17, 2010

Terror threat on the border

PoliceOne Senior Editor Doug Wyllie here... I've been howling about this issue for more than eight years — probably more like nine years — and I know I'm not alone. Law enforcers have been fighting this threat much longer than that. If you would like to add your voice to the column I'm writing about this for an upcoming PoliceOne Newsletter, please send me an email with your brief comment, as well as your name and agency.
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October 04, 2010

Officer-involved shooting (part 1)

Watch this dash-cam video of an officer-involved shooting and try to determine whether the use of force was justified. After doing so, watch the second video.
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June 08, 2010

Light at the End of the Tunnel: Ending Gang Violence

Bill Bratton, Chief of Police at LAPD discusses ending gang violence, mentioning LA as the birthplace of the gangs that have spread across the United States and how we can come together to solve the issue of gang violence.
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