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Video: Crowd-sourced video could give police 3-D surveillance Video

By Sam Clements The Motherboard Blog BOSTON — Imagine if you could stitch together all the video footage from the Boston attack to form a single immersive narrative. CoSync has the ability to link ...

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. ...

NYPD amasses thousands of stolen cellphone records

By Joseph Goldstein The New York Times NEW YORK — When a cellphone is reported stolen in New York, the police department routinely subpoenas the phone’s call records, from the day of the theft ...

NY police will get new fingerprint scanner

Donna Thompson The Evening Telegram HERKIMER, N.Y. — The Herkimer Police Department will be getting a new fingerprint scanning unit, courtesy of the state of New York. Police Chief Joseph Malone ...

Fingerprint system speeds arrests in Ohio Comments

Quan Truong The Columbus Dispatch WESTERVILLE, Ohio — Westerville's latest crime-fighting tool has helped clear about two-dozen investigations after a year on the job. The Automated Fingerprint ...

NYPD to boost gang unit over social media violence Comments

By Tom Hays Associated Press NEW YORK — The New York Police Department is planning to double the size of its gang unit to 300 detectives to combat teen violence fueled by dares and insults traded ...

TASER's new tools: Body cameras and the Cloud Video

By Quentin Hardy The International Herald Tribune SAN FRANCISCO — Sgt. Brandon Davis vividly recalled the moment before he killed Eric Wayne Berry, but it was not the way it really happened. "I ...

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 ...

FBI, police go high-tech to fight crime Comments

Big cases often hinge on small pieces of evidence ...

Calif. officer takes expertise to Ivy League

The officer's specialty is piecing together traffic accidents and crime scenes with measurements, photos and diagrams ...

Study: Police increasingly peeping at Facebook, email, instant messages Comments

By Jeremy Kirk, IDG NewsLaw enforcement organizations are making tens of thousands of requests for private electronic information from companies such as Sprint, Facebook and AOL, but few detailed statistics ...

Tulsa PD utilizing Toughbook U1s

The U1 is essentially the handheld version of Panasonic’s line of ruggedized Toughbook laptops ...

IACP 2010: Light, fast, and highly-mobile cell phone forensics

For agencies including LAPD, Missouri State Patrol, Houston Police Department, and many others agencies, the ability to quickly and easily extract forensic information from a mobile telephone is about ...

FBI says blood evidence flaws may have led to 3 SC executions Comments

Overstated or falsely reported blood evidence in dozens of cases, including three that ended in executions ...

How to buy video analysis systems

By Tim DeesThe good news is that there are more surveillance cameras than ever before. The bad news is that most of the video from them is crappy. With a good video analysis/forensic system and a reasonably ...

VideoFOCUS offers comprehensive video forensics package

By Scott M. Bruner PoliceOne Product EditorSalient Stills didn't get started working their video capture systems for law enforcement, but it's where they’ve been able to find a very lucrative – ...

Online database holds promise in cracking disappearance cases

Associated PressMINNEAPOLIS — A new online database promises to crack some of the nation's 100,000 missing persons cases and provide answers to desperate families, but only a fraction of law enforcement ...

Iris scans may prevent mistaken release of suspects Comments

Associated PressDES MOINES, Iowa — A Baltimore inmate who bluffed his way out of prison probably wouldn't have tricked guards if they had eye-scanners such as those being installed at dozens of jails ...

Next Generation Cartridge Scanning: The ALIAS System

Pyramidal Technologies is set to release the long overdue update to the IBIS ballistics analysis system, using fully 3d images, and it's designed byMike Barrett, IBIS' lead developer. ...

How Boston cops caught the Craigslist killer Video

CNN.comBOSTON, Mass. — They were crimes born of the Internet age -- romantic solicitations on popular Web site Craigslist that police say led to the fatal shooting of one woman and the robbery of ...