Allegations of racism against the Capitol Police are nothing new: Over 250 Black cops have sued the department since 2001. Some of those former officers now say it’s no surprise white nationalists were able to storm the building.
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Eric Lander has been named Presidential Science Advisor, a position he will assume soon after Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20. Biden intends to elevate the Presidential Science Advisor, for the first time in history, to be a member of his Cabinet.
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Amber Hagerman’s murderer is still at large, but the Arlington Police Department (Texas) announced last week, on the 25th anniversary of her kidnapping, that they intend to submit multiple pieces of evidence for testing in hopes that new technologies can produce a DNA profile.
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A young man made a tragic discovery while fly-fishing on the Stillaguamish River in July 1980. The body of an unidentified man, known as "Stilly Doe," was found caught on a logjam in the river.
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"We helped identify 50 perpetrators and victims of violent crimes this year, primarily using tiny, decades-old DNA samples," said Ellen Greytak, Director of Bioinformatics at Parabon.
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The Houston Forensic Science Center has asked the City of Houston’s Office of Inspector General to investigate allegations made against personnel in the crime scene unit.
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PCAST’s claim that forensic pattern examination methods can only be validated using its non-severable set of nine experimental design criteria is inconsistent with its own examples, international laboratory standards, and authorities in experimental design.
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Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) has introduced legislation requiring the addition of a new online victim portal to California’s existing rape kit tracking system to allow survivors of sexual assault to anonymously and electronically track and receive updates regarding the status, location and information regarding their rape kit.
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Berkeley County, South Carolina held a ribbon-cutting for its new Forensic Services Building earlier this week.
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All collected evidence, and every swab taken of those items, has to be sealed in a primary container that is sealed inside a secondary container. Place, seal, label, repeat. And what is the result? Swabs.
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