A new study found that the average rate of assaults with firearms increased an average of 9.5 percent relative to forecasted trends in the first 10 years after 34 states relaxed restrictions on civilians carrying concealed firearms in public.
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A major Florida sheriff who was appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis appears to have lied when he didn’t disclose in his job application that he fatally shot another teenager when he was 14 and that he had used LSD.
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Super-recognizers never forget a face. They help police departments and security agencies identify suspects. They also make good private detectives and unofficial investigators.
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While ethanol is often a hidden ingredient in e-liquids, a new study finds vaping won’t trigger a false positive sobriety test– but only if police employ a proper waiting period.
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In October 2021, the 50th anniversary of Hall’s homicide, detectives from the Cold Case Unit decided to review the case with a fresh set of eyes.
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Researchers in Sweden are developing a portable gas sensor system that can be trained through machine learning to identify human remains—kind of like cadaver dogs.
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Researchers show that incarceration rates in New York City census tracts with public housing developments outstrip the incarceration rates in census tracts without public housing, even though crime rates are equivalent.
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Unregistered, unserialized weapons produced with Polymer80 parts have turned up at crime scenes across the country, but state-level efforts to close ghost gun loopholes continue to fall short.
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For more than two decades, Robin Engel has worked to engage in policing research designed to reduce harm in communities and make police-community encounters safer, promoting best practices through academic-practitioner partnerships.
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The Truth Commission established to clear up the 2014 disappearances of 43 students in southern Mexico said Thursday the army was responsible at least for not stopping the abductions because a soldier had infiltrated the student group and the army knew what was happening.
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