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High-Tech Crash Reconstruction

Increased accuracy in measurements and calculations helps ensure that officers have better information for court, which can put away reckless drivers and make roads safer for everyone. Here are some examples of how law enforcement officers are using digital tools to investigate traffic accidents.

July 15, 2015

Photo: Carla Blazek, Tumbled Bones Photography

Streamlining the Chain of Evidence

CMPD crime scene techs say their work can be very physically demanding and officers often don't realize what is involved. "I don't know how many times I have shown up on a scene and the officers have said to me, 'It's just going to be pictures,'" says Crime Scene Supervisor Roy Patterson. "But it doesn't work like that."

July 14, 2015

Photo: David Griffith

Haystax Releases Mobile Field Interview Application for Law Enforcement

The Haystax Mobile Field Interview Application is designed to streamline data entry for law enforcement agencies by providing an end-to-end digital data management system. The new app auto-populates data and finds related cases, providing an enormous time savings.

July 14, 2015

Photo: Haystax Technology

Drug Lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman Escapes From Mexico Prison

Drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Mexico's most powerful drug lord, escaped sometime Saturday night from a maximum-security prison through a sophisticated mile-long clandestine passageway.

July 13, 2015

MSAB Introduces New MSAB Kiosk (MK2)

MSAB's new Kiosk is a faster, more powerful digital forensics tool that will support a wide range of investigations and alleviate backlog.

July 6, 2015

DNA Ties Escaped Killers to Cabin

An army of law enforcement officers descended on a wooded area 30 miles west of Dannemora, N.Y., Sunday after police confirmed that DNA evidence removed from a hunting camp a day earlier was linked to two murderers on the lam who escaped from prison.

June 22, 2015

Ex-U.S. Agent Charged With Bitcoin Theft to Plead Guilty

One of two former U.S. agents charged with pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars in digital money during the investigation of the illegal Silk Road Internet drug emporium reached a plea agreement with prosecutors.

June 18, 2015

All Backlogged San Francisco Rape Kits to be Tested this Year

San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr on Tuesday said the city’s entire backlog of old rape kits has been counted by hand and will be tested by the end of the year with money already in the department’s budget.

June 11, 2015

Motorola Solutions, Wynyard Group Partner on Big Data Analysis to Help Solve Crimes Faster

Motorola Solutions is partnering with Wynyard Group to integrate next-generation crime analytics to help law enforcement agencies connect disparate data sources such as criminal history, social media networks, property records, field notes and other types of evidence. The software helps identify criminal patterns and explore relationships by analyzing data in minutes rather than days, freeing up agency resources to investigate leads and solve cases.

June 11, 2015

Vigilant's ALPR Data Helps Apprehend Suspect in Underage Sexual Assaults

Vigilant Solutions' LEARN analytic software and commercial license plate reader (LPR) data helped a law enforcement agency locate and apprehend a suspect in multiple sexual assaults against underage victims.

June 5, 2015

DNA Left on Pizza Reveals Suspect in Home Invasion Murder of D.C. Family

The break in the case occurred after police matched Wint to DNA on the crust of a pizza found in the home, according to law enforcement officials with knowledge of the investigation.

May 20, 2015

Daron Dylon Wint, 34, has been charged with first-degree murder while armed. (Photo: Metro PD)

SceneDoc Announces Major Upgrade to Its Mobile Evidence Collection

SceneDoc 3.0 new features include more powerful multimedia/video/audio capabilities, multi-factor authentication for signing in, CJIS-capability, a home screen for quick launching modules, as well as allowing multiple users for one device. The platform’s data synchronization system now automatically syncs with the cloud so command/supervisors can get case updates as it happens.

May 18, 2015

Digital Investigation Tool Analyze DI Creates Intelligence out of Visual Big Data

Analyze Relations, a new feature in NetClean's Analyze DI 15.1, is a visual navigation tool that enables digital investigators to dig deeper into case material.

May 5, 2015

Admonitions and Waivers

Most of your communications with criminal suspects are "unscripted" dialogue. But in certain situations it can be very important that you say the right words, at the right time, to avoid creating problems for yourself, your agency, and your prosecutor.

May 4, 2015

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Prisoner Said Freddie Gray Was 'Trying To Injure Himself,' Document Says

A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray "banging against the walls" of the vehicle and believed that he "was intentionally trying to injure himself," according to a police document.

April 30, 2015

Aeryon HDZoom30 Imaging Payload

Tactical and surveillance teams can keep eyes-on-target from a maximum stand-off distance ensuring safe and covert operations.

April 23, 2015

LAPD Officer Charged with Assault

A Los Angeles police officer was charged Monday with one count of assault under color of authority stemming from an incident that was captured on video last October.

April 21, 2015

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office alleges that Clinton Alford Jr. (pictured) was beaten by an LAPD officer. (Photo: KTLA screen shot)

Video: Illinois Officer, Gunman Shot During Search Warrant Service

A police officer and suspect were wounded when they were shot in a struggle for a gun as a cybercrimes team served a search warrant at a home in Edwardsville, Ill., Wednesday morning.

April 16, 2015

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