Black women in the U.S were, on average, six times more likely to be murdered than their white peers for the years 1999 through 2020, according to an analysis of racial disparities in U.S. homicide rates released by Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
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Black adults across the United States suffer from sleep problems following exposure to news about unarmed Black individuals killed by police during police encounters, according to a new study.
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These examples underscore the need for collaboration across an investigation’s life cycle, so investigators and prosecutors have a full understanding of the evidence’s value to a case.
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The program consists of distributing child ID kits to families of first-graders throughout the state through sheriff’s offices and schools. Families can then complete the kits and have them on hand should a child in their care ever go missing.
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The new study shows that the impact on family members is even greater when a child suffers a firearm injury than when another family member is injured.
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Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson is continuing to take strides in his office’s focus to help solve cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous people.
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In a new study, researchers evaluated the effectiveness of an anti-bias training intervention in one Californian jurisdiction.
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Researchers at the Complexity Science Hub have examined 1.2 million criminal incidents and developed an innovative method to identify patterns in criminal trajectories.
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There is a growing disconnect within the disciplines of what is being called crime scene processing and crime scene reconstruction. Many are overlooking or ignoring the importance of the context in which impression evidence is found.
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Law enforcement officers in the United States own firearms at high rates and rarely engage in secure firearm storage, which could increase their risk for suicide, according to a new study.
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