The Department of Justice held a Summit on Combating Human Trafficking last week at which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unveiled a first-of-its-kind long-term strategy for what the United States has declared a national priority.
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The one-of-a-kind course saw 12 criminal justice students work through the Nutshells during the week, before culminating in an interactive recreation of one of the Nutshells by the UW-Parkside theater department.
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Researchers have measured the extent to which mass shootings are committed by domestic violence perpetrators, suggesting how firearm restrictions may prevent these tragedies.
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A veteran detective for the Carlisle, Pennsylvania Police Department, who was also a task force officer with the FBI and a member of the Cumberland County Drug Task Force, was indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, drug distribution, fraud and making false statements.
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A new proof-of-concept study that uses a highly sensitive mass spectrometry method to date fingerprints has its authors thinking they can test the promising methods in real criminal cases within the next few years.
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London police will start using facial recognition cameras to pick out suspects from street crowds in real time, in a major advance for the controversial technology that raises worries about automated surveillance and erosion of privacy rights.
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After years of trying, the Washington state House of Representatives passed a bill that allows the State Patrol to destroy guns they confiscated during criminal investigations.
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Internet crimes are becoming more sophisticated and persistent in Florida and several of America’s other most populous states, including California, New York, Texas, Virginia and North Carolina.
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Chicago police have ended a program that sought to predict people most likely to be victims or perpetrators of gun crime, according to a watchdog report that warned the department of serious flaws in the approach.
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An experiment in London’s Underground has found crime declines in areas where police patrolling was recently seen, meaning potential offenders become apprehensive about police presence and adjust their crime behavior pattern accordingly.
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