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At 7:40 p.m. on a Friday evening, a patrol officer responds to a call from a concerned parent. Their teenage daughter has been communicating online with someone encouraging her to travel to another ci...
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With the rise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), new dimensions of child exploitation have emerged, with greater capacity to do harm and increased enforcement complexity. Just as GenAI too...
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Standing before the jury, the police officer testified, “I’m confident the person who assaulted me was wearing a blue jacket.” Moments later, the defense played a cellphone video showing the def...
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Today’s investigations generate mountains of digital evidence that no filing cabinet, local server, or IT budget can contain. A single smartphone can hold more than a terabyte of data—tens of thou...
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Every city has a network of streetlights that blanket the urban landscape. With the right equipment, they can be a powerful asset to public safety, helping to address short-staffed police forces, inst...
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Today, digital evidence offers deeper and more layers of proof that often exceed the availability of fingerprints or the reliability of an eyewitness’s recollection of what occurred during a crime. ...
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Twenty years ago, online crime reporting represented a revolutionary concept for policing. The promise was compelling: enable community members to submit crime reports on their own time, redu...
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Effective interviewing is at the heart of any investigation and is essential to achieving justice in society, but it is a skill that must be learned and practiced. Research studies over the pas...
