The City of Austin has chosen to remove the troubled forensics laboratory from under the control of the Austin Police Department as part of its City-Community Reimagining Task Force.
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Establishing textile fiber links is only half the battle for forensic scientists working on criminal cases. What is equally, if not more, important, is to work out how the fibers actually got there in the first place.
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Usually, one match is not enough to point to a single person. However, this match had included another clue in their public database profile.
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The Department of Justice has awarded more than $1 million in forensic grants to help Wyoming officials protect citizens from dangerous drugs, sexual perpetrators and violent criminals.
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Two law enforcement agencies in Utah are looking to dispose of more than 300 guns accumulating in evidence storage that either went unclaimed or are no longer needed in criminal investigations.
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Puerto Rico’s recovery from Hurricane María continues with FEMA’s obligation of over $7.6 million for the Forensic Science Institute, known as the ICF in Spanish.
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Software pioneered by the University of Bradford and used to piece together bone fragments from one of the UK’s oldest archaeological sites could be used on modern crime scenes.
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If you want to enhance a locust to be used as a bomb-sniffing bug, there are a few technical challenges that need solving before sending it into the field. For that matter, can locusts even smell explosives?
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Young was identified using investigative genetic genealogy funded through a $1.2 M grant to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office by the Bureau of Justice Assistance Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) program.
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Shooting incidents are dynamic and occur quick. They are rooted just as deeply in neuropsychology as they are in ballistic physics, more specifically in the actions of mental chronometry.
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