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For years, law enforcement has worked to dispel the myth that someone must be missing for 24 or 48 hours before a report can be taken, but another problem gets far less attention. A missing-person report is not an investigation.
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The federal audits raised concerns about the administration of the lab. The integrity of DNA testing on crime-scene evidence had not been compromised by the huge case backlogs and chronic under-staffing, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has said.
Read More →An Allegheny County (Pa.) Police detective who had saved a teenage girl's life committed suicide after a four-hour standoff with police. Homicide detective Lawrence Carpico, 49, died at 10:17 p.m. Saturday. He was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Read More →Starting Monday, the Detroit Police Department will only respond to burglary calls if the alarm company provides verification that an actual break-in has occurred.
Read More →In 2010, the Maryland State Police Forensic Sciences Division Laboratory received evidence from 19,000 criminal cases to process in the forensic fields of biology, toxicology, trace evidence, latent print/impressions, drug analysis, and firearms/tool marks.
Read More →Following the decision by Chief Michael Sellers' doctor to place the chief on medical leave, City Manager Joe Felz named Capt. Kevin Hamilton as interim chief.
Read More →Sgt. Carla Housely said she wrote out a statement by inmate Durrell Collins, who claimed that Tulsa Police Officer Bill Yelton asked him to beat up another inmate in the Tulsa Jail,
Read More →Detectives in Tacoma, Wash., hope to solve the case of 8-year-old Ann Marie Burr, who disappeared from her house in 1961. Bundy, who was 14 at the time and living in Tacoma, denied responsibility for her disappearance.
Read More →Hackers from the group Anonymous breached some 70 mostly rural law enforcement Web sites on Saturday, posting sensitive, investigative materials on public Web sites.
Read More →Of the eight new cases LAPD detectives are investigating, two involve women who disappeared during the 13-year period. A third went missing in 1982, before the first of the 10 known killings.
Read More →Councilmember Sharon Quirk-Silva has said publicly she believes the resignation of Chief Michael Sellers would help the investigation into the beating go more smoothly.
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