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McDonald's nabs robbers by spraying them with DNA  12
By PoliceOne Staff SYDNEY, Australia — McDonald's locations in Australia are spraying invisible DNA at suspected robbers to heighten security. A police officer and a chemist in the UK developed ...
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Database tool seeks to ID unknown dead
By Jim Balloch Knoxville News-SentinelHe was a black man, probably in his 30s or 40s, when someone robbed him of his life - and his name - more than 30 years ago. His body was left in a heavily wooded ...
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NC center targets criminals' digital devices
By Cheryl Caswell Charleston Daily Mail HUNTINGTON, N.C. — Digital devices are making life easier for most people — including criminals.But the Marshall University Forensic Science Center is ...
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Tie your shoes... to an investigation
Young detectives tend to be hungry for knowledge and they often look to their senior detectives for advice. Some are lucky enough to have valuable advice shared with them on a regular basis while others ...
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Biometrics gaining ground in law enforcement
All of us accumulate a lot of keys over time. We have locker keys, door keys, desk drawer keys, car keys, padlock keys, and keys that just appeared one day with no apparent use or function. If you have ...
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Robber tells man he shot Fla. cop 1
SANFORD, Fla. — A home invasion in Seminole County could be the work of a man who shot a police officer, according to a man who was robbed Saturday morning.An 89-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint ...
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Police match DNA to NY killings after 21 years2
Associated PressYONKERS, N.Y. — A man now accused of raping and strangling three women in a New York suburb starting 21 years ago was never even suspected until he submitted a DNA sample after a ...
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How to buy police biometrics products
By Thomas Bush III, Strategic Advisor for BIO-key InternationalIntroduction Wikipedia defines biometrics as “methods for uniquely recognizing humans based upon one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral ...
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FBI reviews cases where flawed evidence was used1
DENVER — Nearly five years after the FBI abandoned its so-called comparative bullet lead analysis, the FBI has yet to complete its review of nearly 2,500 cases where law enforcement used such evidence to investigate a case. So far, the agency has found 187 cases where so-called comparative bullet lead analysis evidence was not only used in the investigation, but came into play at trial where FBI experts provided testimony. ...
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Fingerprint examiners claim officers lay on pressure
By Jim Stasiowski Missouir Lawyers MediaA police officer rushes up to the fingerprint examiner and pleads for help.The suspect sitting in the interrogation room is as guilty as can be, the officer insists, ...
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