Investigations
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Take a moment to imagine what the future could hold: It is 2:00 a.m. in Modesto, California. Among hundreds of video feeds, filtering into the Modesto Police Department’s real-time crime center, one...
Investigations
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It isn’t often that a hate-driven incident creates an opportunity for positive community building and fosters unity and forgiveness between the suspect and victims. However, for the city of Meriden,...
Technology
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Technological advances in law enforcement have made video a critical component of an officer’s day-to-day tool kit. Video sources in law enforcement include traffic cameras; privately owned video su...
Research & Evidence-Based Policing
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For many years, recommendations have been made for law enforcement agencies to form collaborative working relationships with local academic institutions. The benefit of these collaborations to law enf...
Research & Evidence-Based Policing
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Dropping bombs, capturing for interrogation without warrant, intentionally causing infighting to cause groups to fall apart—all are acceptable in times of war. However, all are unacceptable tactics ...
Technology
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The modern, digitally connected world has created enormous benefits for individual’s business and personal lives. People have the opportunity to connect for commercial and social reasons more easily...
President's Message
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Forensic science. The phrase often brings to mind the labs filled with futuristic technology featured on popular television shows like CSI, Bones, NCIS, and other crime dramas, where every fingerpr...
Investigations
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What if law enforcement could determine during booking if the arrestee being fingerprinted and photographed matched DNA evidence left 10 years ago at a murder scene hundreds of miles away in another s...