The money from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act will be used to help pay for community outreach programs, regional law enforcement task forces and specialized police positions and fund real-time access to data from rapid-DNA and ballistics testing.
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A 15-year plan to abate the opioid crisis in a West Virginia community will cost local officials $2.5 billion, a forensic economist has testified.
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QIAGEN and Verogen Inc. have announced a partnership to provide laboratories with superior tools and comprehensive support for implementing next-generation sequencing (NGS) human identification workflows.
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The remains of a Black male with a bullet lodged in his left shoulder have been recovered by the team searching for, excavating and analyzing skeletal remains found in a mass grave of possible Tulsa Race Massacre victims.
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Initially, aerial, water, and ground searches were conducted to try and locate any sort of additional information regarding the man’s identity, yet these efforts were unsuccessful.
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Rescuers swept the mound with dogs trained to sniff out humans and used a microwave radar device developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and the Department of Homeland Security that “sees” through up to 8 inches of concrete.
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The Arkansas Department of Corrections has awarded the University of Arkansas at Little Rock a multi-year contract of more than $453,000 to study and assess prison culture and climate in Arkansas.
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Traditional methods of DNA interpretation are limited, and do not use all the data. Imagine a medical world without doctors, where technicians take superb X-ray images, but there are no radiologists to read them.
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The Forensic Interview Trace (FIT) is a secure computer program designed to record the structure, content and characteristics of a forensic interview, involving victims, witnesses, suspects and persons of interest.
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New Jersey residents who have been wrongly convicted of crimes and seek exoneration have a new resource: the New Jersey Innocence Project, based at Rutgers University-Camden, which focuses the expertise of Rutgers faculty in law, forensic science, criminal justice, and social work.
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