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Continued Cold Case Success Leads to Expansion of Bode’s Forensic Genealogy Team
The expansion is another sign of the repeated impact forensic genealogy is having by enhancing public safety, exonerating the innocent, and bringing justice for victims and their families. read more
New York Passes Bill to Unveil Police Discipline Records
New York state lawmakers repealed a decades-old law Tuesday that has kept law enforcement officers’ disciplinary records secret, spurred by the national uproar over the death of George Floyd. read more
Texas State To Study the Use of Drones to Locate Human Remains
Over the course of the two-year project, forensic anthropologists will explore the capabilities and limitations of drones as tools for locating and identifying human remains. read more
Better Support for Sexual Abuse Victims Under New Training for Australian First Responders
A new federal grant awarded to Monash University will improve the way frontline workers and health professionals respond to victims of sexual violence. read more
IBM Quits Facial Recognition Business Over Racial Concerns
IBM is getting out of the facial recognition business, saying it's concerned about how the technology can be used for mass surveillance and racial profiling. read more
Study: AI Sentencing Tools Need to be Closely Scrutinized
In a new paper, experts take a critical look at the growing use of algorithmic risk assessment tools, which act as a form of expert scientific evidence in a growing number of criminal cases. read more
On the Frontlines of the Worst Crimes: New True Crime Podcast Seeks to Humanize Law Enforcement
Eighteen years after he worked as the assistant district attorney in the brutal kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion, David Brent still has every word from her mother’s victim impact statement stored in his phone. read more
Fingerprints are Harder to Detect on Scotland’s Polymer Banknotes
Compared with the old cotton paper notes, the polymer notes are non-porous, have a large amount of background pattern interference, and lack surface uniformity. read more
DNA Off COVID-19 Face Mask Links Suspect to Sexual Assault
The Department of Justice confirmed a DNA sample obtained from the mask was a match to a DNA sample collected at the time of the initial investigation. read more
UK University Begins Work on New Forensic Center of Excellence
The facilities at Cranfield Forensic Institute will be among some of the very best in the world in their specialist fields of crime scene investigation, digital forensic investigation and non-destructive analysis. read more
A Literature Review of Policing from a Psychological Perspective
This article reviews research on police and stereotyping, police officers’ aggressiveness, and the impact of psychological science on policing in the United States. read more
DNA Increases Our Understanding of Contact Between Stone Age Cultures
In a new interdisciplinary study, researchers have combined archaeological and genetic information to better understand Battle Axe cultural influences discovered in graves of the Pitted Ware culture. read more
Isotonitazene Could Be the New Fentanyl
Last fall, the Center for Forensic Science Research & Education issued a “Potent Synthetic Opioid” warning for isotonitazene—and now law enforcement and crime lab technicians are starting to see the opioid reflected in drug samples. read more
NIST to Digital Forensics Experts: Show Us What You Got
In this study, to be conducted online, participants will examine simulated digital evidence, then answer questions that might arise in a real criminal investigation. read more
Study: Police Efforts to Speed Digital Forensics Could Lead to Evidence Oversight
Efforts by police forces to speed up digital forensic analysis could lead to oversights in evidence gathering and interpretation, a new study warns. read more