The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a partnership with UW-Madison and UW-Platteville to provide the first female focused mentoring program at the two universities for students interested in pursuing a career in criminal justice.
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The models draw on publicly available data to identify massage businesses that are most likely to be violating laws related to sex trafficking and labor trafficking.
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Measuring THC, the active compound in marijuana that leads to a high, is much different than, for example, the level of ethanol that is measured with a traditional alcohol breathalyzer.
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Intermountain Forensics has announced the formation of a dedicated satellite lab for forensic investigative genetic genealogy laboratory processing with partner Astrea Forensics.
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In April 2019, while conducting a natural death investigation in Mississippi, detectives with the Biloxi Police Department were made aware of a human foot located in a bucket on the property of the recently deceased individual.
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The draft review finds that “forensic bitemark analysis lacks a sufficient scientific foundation because the three key premises of the field are not supported by the data.
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Another 22 civilians have been exhumed from individual graves at the burial site, located on the edge of a cemetery in a forested area on the outskirts of Lyman. Further exhumations are planned.
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Firearm-related deaths in school-age children are dramatically increasing in the United States where homicide rates are about six- to nine-fold higher than those in comparably developed countries.
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Forty-eight hours after release, amid accusations of racism, the image was removed from the media release as well as social media sites, and the officer in charge of the sexual assault section apologized.
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A new partnership is empowering forensic science students to seek out mentors and learn what a career in forensic science could look like for them.
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