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Phone app claims it can pinpoint gun location by bullet sound Comments

By Mark Prigg Daily Mail An app that can pinpoint a gunman's location simply by analyzing the sound and shockwaves from a gunshot have been revealed by US researchers. The Android app can show a map ...

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 ...

NJ cop builds custom tablet for police work Video

By PoliceOne Staff NEW JERSEY — A New Jersey cop tired of the endless paperwork that comes with being an officer found a greener, more efficient way to do his work: he built a custom tablet meant ...

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 ...

Crime mapping software aiding arrests in Wash. Comments

Detectives in Spokane are using crime-mapping software to help predict when and where thieves might strike next. ...

New website lets Mich. residents keep up on crime

Tiffany Esshaki Birmingham-Bloomfield Eagle BIRMINGHAM — With the help of a few new tech-savvy tools, residents in Birmingham can help fight crime in their own backyard. As of Nov. 21, the Birmingham ...

Do you need to upgrade to Windows 8? Comments

Three days from now, on October 26, Microsoft will formally roll out its latest and greatest operating system, called Windows 8. It will have a very different look and feel as compared to the Windows systems ...

Top 10 things to consider when buying body-worn cameras Comments

Back when in-car video systems were first introduced, there was widespread skepticism among many patrol officers. In some cases, there were frequent outbreaks of "outages" because officers simply ...

Case Study: Lake Havasu PD cuts complaints, costs with TASER AXON

Sun Tzu said it is best to win without fighting. Plaintiffs’ attorneys know this, and frankly, when their sole objective is a settlement, they’re counting on it. They know that in a he-said-she-said ...

Interoperability Best Practices: The 4G future of public safety

By Tim Dees and Michelle Perin Technology projects in large, well-funded agencies tend to get the most attention. With 80 percent of the law enforcement agencies having 25 or fewer officers, and most fire ...

Police data in the cloud: Security and storage solutions Comments

The vast majority of people would rather keep their money in a bank, rather than hiding it under the mattress. Most would rather have their electricity supplied by the power company, as opposed to a gas-powered ...

New anti-DWI smartphone app hits market, with kinks Video

By Brian Fraga Las Cruces Sun-News LAS CRUCES, N.M. — A drink in one hand, a smartphone in the other. State officials hope that can be a life-saving combination. "More and more people are utilizing ...

New tool allows disaster modeling and simulation systems to share data

First responders participating in disaster exercises usually have to rely on disaster modeling and simulation to imagine how something like a damaged building might look following an earthquake or terror ...

App for bomb and IED defense

Every law enforcement agency deals with bomb threats now and again. Most of them are just that — threats — with no device behind them. Even so, few cops are willing to bet people’s lives ...

Website helps marginal report writers Comments

Few colleges and even fewer high schools do an adequate job of conferring basic skills in English and math onto their graduates. ...

NYPD to launch all-seeing system to track crime

By Kimberly Dozier The Associated Press ASPEN, Colo. — The New York Police Department will soon launch an all-seeing "Domain Awareness System" that combines several streams of information ...

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, ...

Growing number of communities using database for dispatchers

Kevin Pieper USA TODAY A man who called 911 in Nashville recently was too ill to speak to the dispatcher. That could have been a life-threatening situation, says Duane Phillips, director of Emergency Communications ...

Tool trains Md. police for range of dangerous scenarios Video

By Mike Conneen WJLA.com Prince George's County police now have a new tool to help them train for dangerous situations. The Judgmental Enhancement Training System (JETS) will help officers train to ...