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The technology that helped nab the Boston bombers

Technology played a big role in aiding the police operation that caught the Tsarnaev brothers ...

Case Study: Arvada CO PD Implements Dragon NaturallySpeaking Voice-recognition Software Saving Time & Money

By Nuance Communications The city of Arvada Colorado is part of the Denver metropolitan area and has a population of over 100,000 people. The Arvada Colorado Police Department has more than 200 sworn officers ...

How to identify fraudulent IDs Video

When I was working the street in the 1980s, false IDs weren’t all that difficult to spot. The most common ones were sold out of magazines like High Times and all had the same format, with the name ...

Iowa police hope new 3D laser will assist CSIs Comments

By PoliceOne Staff DAVENPORT, Iowa — A three-dimensional laser scanner from Faro Technologies that was unveiled Wednesday claims to turn a four-hour mapping job into less than an hour’s work. ...

Wis. police department receives grant for much-needed new interview room Comments

Andrea Budde Milwaukee Journal Sentinel MILWAUKEE — The Village Police Department will soon have a much-needed and anticipated interview room, complete with brand new video equipment. The department ...

IACP 2012 video interview: LexisNexis Accurint Mobile Video

During IACP 2012 in San Diego, I connected briefly with Bill Hatfield of LexisNexis, who had some new information to share about how officers can connect to myriad public safety databases via consumer-grade ...

FBI upgrading its criminal justice records system

The next generation identification system is bigger, faster, and more versatile ...

Video: 3-D software recreates Aurora theater shooting Video

By PoliceOne Staff A 3-D animation of the Aurora, Colo., shooting scene where 12 people were killed could help build a case against the alleged gunman, experts say. After receiving a request from CBS News, ...

In cities across the country, fleets of cars drive predetermined routes through high-traffic business and residential neighborhoods, where they scan and photograph license plates for PlateNet, an online ...

Plate scanners raise privacy fears Comments

By Sarah Burge The Press Enterprise RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Police departments across the Inland area have embraced a new technology that helps officers on patrol to locate stolen cars, felony suspects ...

Magically scan documents and photos on patrol Comments

The next step in reprographic technology comes in the form of a magic wand. ...

Hacker helps FBI break into Anonymous, 4 charged Video

By Donna Leinwand Leger USA TODAY An influential computer hacker turned FBI informant led investigators to his former accomplices, helping federal agents make their first significant crack into Anonymous, ...

Phila. police now have 24-hour real-time surveillance center

By Allison Steele The Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA — These days, when Philadelphia police officers respond to robberies and shootings, they might learn that video surveillance from the scene ...

FBI seeks to mine Facebook, Twitter to predict future Comments

By Marcus Wohlsen Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. government is seeking software that can mine social media to predict everything from future terrorist attacks to foreign uprisings, according ...

Overwatch awards Excellence in Policing grants to 16 LE agencies

Satellite SpotlightOverwatch, a strategic business of Textron Systems Advanced Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today that 16 law enforcement ...

Product Review: SilverCloud GPS tracker from LandAirSea Comments

The recent 9-0 Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Jones undoubtedly creates a Fourth Amendment hurdle for investigations, but that issue notwithstanding, one device merits a look by any agency interested in using GPS tracking technology. ...

What does the Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Jones mean for investigators? Comments

In a unanimous decision — a somewhat unusual event these days — the United States Supreme Court ruled yesterday that police agencies seeking to use a GPS tracking device on the vehicle of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Finding that face in the crowd Video

Even though it dates me as someone who has been around a while, the first time I can remember the “face in the crowd” phenomenon coming to notice was in the case of Arthur Bremer. Bremer was ...