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DOJ Awards $145 Million To Advance Forensic Science
The Justice Department has awarded grants totaling more than $145 million to fund crime laboratories, decrease DNA backlogs, support basic and applied forensic research and help law enforcement identify missing persons. read more
Report: FBI Investigating D.C. Forensic Firearms Lab
The Washington Post is reporting that the FBI is investigating a firearms analyst at the District of Columbia Department of Forensic Sciences. read more
Chicago Police End Effort to Predict Gun Offenders, Victims
Chicago police have ended a program that sought to predict people most likely to be victims or perpetrators of gun crime, according to a watchdog report that warned the department of serious flaws in the approach. read more
Police Presence at Train Stations Reduces Crime by 21 Percent
An experiment in London’s Underground has found crime declines in areas where police patrolling was recently seen, meaning potential offenders become apprehensive about police presence and adjust their crime behavior pattern accordingly. read more
Fingerprint Residues Can Reveal Their Age
A new proof-of-concept study that uses a highly sensitive mass spectrometry method to date fingerprints has its authors thinking they can test the promising methods in real criminal cases within the next few years. read more
London Police to Use Face Scan Tech
London police will start using facial recognition cameras to pick out suspects from street crowds in real time, in a major advance for the controversial technology that raises worries about automated surveillance and erosion of privacy rights. read more
House Passes Bill to Let State Patrol Destroy Crime Guns
After years of trying, the Washington state House of Representatives passed a bill that allows the State Patrol to destroy guns they confiscated during criminal investigations. read more
Study: Internet Crime Becoming More Sophisticated, Persistent
Internet crimes are becoming more sophisticated and persistent in Florida and several of America’s other most populous states, including California, New York, Texas, Virginia and North Carolina. read more
Life-sized ‘Nutshell’ Forensic Course Gets an A+
The one-of-a-kind course saw 12 criminal justice students work through the Nutshells during the week, before culminating in an interactive recreation of one of the Nutshells by the UW-Parkside theater department. read more
Keeping Guns Away from Potential Mass Shooters
Researchers have measured the extent to which mass shootings are committed by domestic violence perpetrators, suggesting how firearm restrictions may prevent these tragedies. read more
Former Detective, FBI Task Force Officer Indicted for Bribery, Drug Distribution
A veteran detective for the Carlisle, Pennsylvania Police Department, who was also a task force officer with the FBI and a member of the Cumberland County Drug Task Force, was indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, drug distribution, fraud and making false statements. read more
Organized Cybercrime: Not Your Average Mafia
New research is one of the first to identify common attributes of cybercrime networks, revealing how these groups function and work together to cause an estimated $445-600 billion of harm globally per year. read more
DHS Issues Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking
The Department of Justice held a Summit on Combating Human Trafficking last week at which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unveiled a first-of-its-kind long-term strategy for what the United States has declared a national priority. read more
Study: Attentiveness, Trust Especially Effective in Combating Juvenile Crime
Coming from a disadvantaged background, experiencing violence within the family, having a negative school environment or consuming violent media have little or no direct influence on potential criminal behavior among adolescents, but do result in young people regarding violent acts as harmless. read more
Survivors of Firearm Violence Experience 'Alarming' Long-term Trauma
A new study found that 6-to-12 months after traumatic injury, rates of chronic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other poor physical and mental health outcomes were alarmingly high among survivors of firearm violence—even higher than among survivors who had sustained similar injuries ... read more