A 7-year research project involving multiple UK police forces has shown significant failings in the role of Interview Manager, which researchers say is absolutely critical to the success of high-stake crime investigations—especially rape and murder.
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The already-effective Cold Case Unit out of the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office is hoping to continue their success as they now expand their scope to include all missing persons in the last 50 years.
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The course focused on teaching methods to forensically map a collision or crime scene utilizing a UAS, often referred to as a drone.
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The technology could potentially be used for the brain monitoring of criminal offenders or for cognitive enhancement, creating a divide between enhanced and non-enhanced humans.
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A forensic examiner and a detective were wounded when an explosive device went off while they were examining a crime scene in northern Mexico, authorities say.
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At least one person gets killed every two days in Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi. Most of these cases are never resolved. Only 94 murder cases were registered in Nairobi courts in 2021.
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States that legalized recreational marijuana saw a subsequent increase in traffic crashes and fatalities, according to a new study.
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The money will be used for testing equipment to increase the ability of police to find fentanyl. It will also be used for a media campaign to alert Idaho residents to the dangers of fentanyl.
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Mississippi’s top legal official has no plan to prosecute the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, an aide said following revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and a newly revealed memoir by the woman.
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In addition to keeping city residents safer where they live, work, and play, a new analysis of data from Chicago shows that as violent crime decreases, so does the area’s death rate from heart disease.
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