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Public safety agencies had a challenging year in 2018. However, despite emergencies ranging from category 4 hurricanes to mass shootings to uncontrollable wildfires, police, firefighters, and EMTs unf...
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“Forensic video analysis is a very powerful tool that can be used in search of the truth. There is no prosecution truth or defense truth; there is only the truth.” To the lofty statement above,...
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It’s the third Tuesday of the month, 10:00 a.m. sharp. Newark, New Jersey, Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose, calls the gathering to order and takes his seat at the head of a table of police ch...
Traffic Safety
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Emergency alerts have been sent and are ringing loudly on people’s electronic devices. Programming on radio and television has been interrupted to report the abduction of a four-year-old girl from a...
Research in Brief
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Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are one of the most rapidly spreading technologies in policing today. As of 2016, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that 60 percent of local police departments a...
Cybercrime
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Cybercrime is often thought of as activities such as network intrusions, ransomware, and distributed denial of service attacks. However, it also encompasses any criminal activity that is enabled throu...
Cybercrime
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  Reports of extensive data breaches or other elaborate cybercrimes are increasing worldwide. The complexity and scope of these cases can present challenges that might seem insurmountable for mos...
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The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is the modern system for U.S.-wide collection of crime data by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). NIBRS contains structured information abo...