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Crime: A Family Thing? Although its legality has not been tested in court, a growing number of law enforcement agencies nationwide are considering whether to adopt a technique that entails looking through the database for a near-match rather than an exact match.   |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2007
Simon A. Cole |
Double Helix Jeopardy DNA databases help solve crimes but some say they also aid and abet racial discrimination. Can there be a compromise between the desire for privacy and the need for crime control? |
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To Protect, But Not To Serve Columbus, Ohio city council members are hearing complaints that police officers are saying citizens who are fed up with crime in their neighborhoods should move out. |
Chemistry World
February 4, 2011
Holly Sheahan |
Crime scene DNA testing on the move A microfluidic chip that can come up with a DNA profile in less than three hours has been designed by US scientists for use at crime scenes. |
PC Magazine
December 24, 2003 |
Bits & Bytes (v23n1) Scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have used DNA to create a self-assembling nanoscale transistor... 125 Internet crime suspects arrested in November... |
National Defense
July 2013
Stew Magnuson |
DNA Testing Machine Reduces Labs to the Size of a Desktop Printer The RapidHit 200 Human Identification System promises to radically alter the way law enforcement conducts investigations. |
Reason
April 2002
Jeremy Lott |
Fake IDs Facial recognition technology is often billed as a tradeoff between privacy and security. A recent American Civil Liberties Union report suggests that it's closer to a no-win deal, resulting in less privacy and precious little added security... |
Chemistry World
October 5, 2012
Patrick Walter |
Forensic lab error led to miscarriage of justice A forensics error has led to an innocent man being held for five months on a charge of rape in the UK. The DNA sample from the rape victim was contaminated during a routine DNA extraction procedure, although this is thought to have been an isolated incident. |
Chemistry World
September 5, 2013
Jason Woolford |
A biochemical eyewitness Blood found at a crime scene could give police an indication of a criminal suspect's ethnicity there and then thanks to a new bioassay. |
PC Magazine
September 6, 2005
David Murphy |
Real Time Against Crime While it doesn't quite match the centralized police systems seen in Judge Dredd and Minority Report, the New York Police Department's new $11 million Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) is one of the organization's largest technological leaps ever. |
InternetNews
September 22, 2009 |
Canada Uses IBM BI Software to Fight Crime Edmonton police are the latest to use business intelligence apps to identify crime hot spots. |
IDB America
June 2004
Charo Quesada |
The People's Police Why the residents of Bogota have come to love their police force, after years of suspicion and resentment. |
Wired
December 20, 2007
Melba Newsome |
A New DNA Test Can ID a Suspect's Race, But Police Won't Touch It Combining race with crime is always a sensitive subject, despite the nature of the discovery. |
Reason
February 2005
Julian Sanchez |
Songs of Innocence The Justice for All Act of 2004, signed into law in October, grants federal convicts a right to have potentially exculpatory DNA evidence considered by courts. |
AskMen.com
Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: DNA With human cloning and other controversial bombshells waiting just around the corner, expect DNA to remain in the public eye for decades to come. |
Reason
February 2003
Ronald Bailey |
Guilt Tip DNA testing and justice: Voters seem to agree that if the state is going to claim the awesome power to execute murderers, it should make every effort to insure that those it kills are in fact guilty. |
Popular Mechanics
February 18, 2010
Tyghe Trimble |
Can Sophisticated Mathematical Models Help Police Fight Crime? Is it possible to predict crimes from studying human behavior? A new paper from researchers at the University of California shows how mathematical modeling may soon lead to truly predictive police work. |
Mother Jones
Nov/Dec 2001
Julie Wakefield |
A Face in the Crowd Is surveillance software turning police into Robocops? |
Information Today
July 1, 2014 |
Supreme Court Ruling Upholds Individual Privacy Law enforcement officers must obtain a warrant before searching the content in an arrested person's cellphone. |
Chemistry World
November 2007
Lisa Melton |
Courtroom Chemistry When analyzing the smallest traces of evidence at a crime scene, chemistry is key. |
Scientific American
November 12, 2006
Sally Lehrman |
Partial to Crime Families become suspects as government rules on DNA matches relax. |
Bio-IT World
October 14, 2004
Mark D. Uehling |
Not-So-Cool DNA Storage With robotics and innovative sample tagging, GenVault offers DNA archiving with no freezer burn. |
Reason
February 2003 |
Letters Gun Control Twists... True Patriots... |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Step Away From the Car: Rare Fourth Amendment victory In April the U.S. Supreme Court said police may no longer routinely search the vehicles of recently arrested people, a practice that was considered constitutional for nearly three decades. |
Chemistry World
December 20, 2010
Jennifer Newton |
Frozen assets in biobanks Scientists from Sweden have devised a technique that extracts both DNA and RNA from frozen tissue in a bid to improve large-scale extractions from samples stored in biobanks, which could aid cancer research. |
CRM
October 2010
Koa Beck |
To Predict and Serve Predictive analytics helps a police department make better use of limited resources. |
Chemistry World
January 15, 2014
Kirsty Muirhead |
Biomarkers leave gender clues at crime scene Scientists in the US have unveiled details of a colorimetric assay that could provide an initial indication of a suspect's gender during the on-scene stages of a forensic investigation. |
Reason
December 2008
Radley Balko |
Innocence Denied As the science of DNA testing improves, labs can go further and further back in time to test even damaged and partially decomposed DNA evidence. |
Reason
November 2002
Joyce Lee Malcolm |
Gun Control's Twisted Outcome Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S. |
Chemistry World
November 28, 2014
Matthew Gunther |
DNA survives extreme heat of rocket re-entry DNA can survive the extreme conditions of sub-orbital spaceflight and re-entry. |
Salon.com
August 2, 2001
Jared Manasek |
Smoke signal Police in London's gritty Brixton neighborhood are losing the war on drugs, so the police chief is experimenting with not enforcing cannabis laws. |
PC Magazine
September 28, 2005
David Murphy |
Fighting Crime in Real Time In one technological shot, the NYPD is solving its two biggest problems: paper and perpetrators. |
Reactive Reports
David Bradley |
Integrated Biochips A new microfluidic device that can perform sample preparation, polymerase chain reaction, and microarray detection functions on a single device has been developed by US researchers. |
Fast Company
April 2013
Margaret Rhodes |
Police Department Site Gets A Visual Revamp In Milwaukee Chris Jacobs's agency took city websites to a new, dynamic level. Milwaukeepolicenews.com plays up mug shots, photos of officers, and crime stats. |
IDB America
June 2004
Charo Quesada |
Sherlock Holmes Didn't Work Alone In Bogota, traditional turf battles within the police system are giving way to cooperation and a focus on results. |
Salon.com
April 14, 2001
Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Cincinnati's killer cops Black leaders want the feds to investigate the city's trigger-happy police. They shouldn't hold their breath... |
Salon.com
July 9, 2001
David Horowitz |
Cops are not to blame Who is responsible for the recent killings of blacks in Cincinnati? Liberals and "civil rights" crusaders... |
Popular Mechanics
July 27, 2009
Brad Reagan |
The Truth About 4 Common Forensics Methods Room for doubt in deciphering the information in four important types of criminal evidence |
IDB America
Jul/Aug 2000
Paul Constance |
Police we deserve How one city reversed a rising spiral of crime and restored public trust in law enforcement... |
Popular Mechanics
January 2008
Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Watching the Watchers: Why Surveillance Is a Two-Way Street If governments and businesses can keep an eye on us in public spaces, we ought to be able to look back. |
Fast Company
September 2004
Keith H. Hammonds |
"Nothing Is Easy in Iraq. But You Can't Not Do It." A British brigadier on the rebuilding of Iraq's police force. |
Chemistry World
April 4, 2013
Rebecca Trager |
Massachusetts crime lab scandal explodes The arrest of another forensic lab chemist has prosecutors scrambling to check drug cases she worked on. |
Salon.com
December 21, 2000
Dawn MacKeen |
The medical privacy debate Do Clinton's new guidelines go far enough? |
Bank Technology News
January 2010
Rebecca Sausner |
Planted Plant DNA Convicts UK Thieves In the UK, Loomis helped convict a pair of cash in transit robbers using DNA evidence, but it wasn't the thieves' own DNA that did them in. |
Job Journal
October 28, 2007 |
Career Snapshot: Police Officer Police officers can be sure of steady demand for their courage and dedication. |
RootPrompt.org
July 17, 2000 |
Calling the Cops I have had a lot of questions concerning the police and the cracker that I have written about in the Cracked! articles. With these questions in mind I have written this article that explains several incidents involving the police and system administrators and attempts to answer some of these questions.... |
Chemistry World
November 7, 2013
Simon Hadlington |
Rocket-propelled read-out for new DNA chip US researchers have invented a lab-on-a-chip that can measure how much of a specific strand of DNA is in a sample using a 'rocket-propelled' thread of ink that can be read by eye. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
Gene Callahan & William Anderson |
The Roots of Racial Profiling Why are police targeting minorities for traffic stops? |
Chemistry World
March 1, 2013
Ian Farrell |
Fireproof coatings made from DNA Researchers have used DNA, extracted from herring sperm, to fireproof samples of cotton, and have found its performance to be on a par with commercially manufactured materials. The flame retardant industry is big business, but many of the chemicals used are hazardous to the environment. |
Bio-IT World
June 2005
Robert M. Frederickson |
Crime Pays for DNAPrint Genomics DNAWITNESS 2.0 is used by law enforcement agencies to determine the likely genetic heritage of DNA samples obtained from crime scenes -- thereby narrowing the potential pool of suspects or victims. |
