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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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“There will come a day when it will matter a great deal to the lives of people . . . that we will be able to gain access” to such devices, Comey told reporters in a briefing. “I want to have that conversation [with companies responsible] before that day comes.”
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At 50, Lt. Nolan Anderson of LaPlace, La., had spent half his life as a member of the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office. Now, the Louisiana State Police is attempting to piece together the tragic series of events that led the 25-year veteran -- on duty and in uniform at the time -- to be shot and killed by colleagues after authorities say he opened fire on deputies who were responding to reports of a domestic dispute between Anderson and his wife Wednesday afternoon.
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Hackers constantly target law enforcement. Whatever the intent, with our dependence on technology it's more important than ever that police agencies protect themselves against cyber terrorist attacks.
Read More →The next generation of Google’s Android operating system, due for release next month, will encrypt data by default for the first time, raising yet another barrier to police gaining access to the troves of personal data typically kept on smartphones.
Read More →The FBI announced this week the achievement of full operational capability of the Next Generation Identification (NGI) System. It was developed to replace IAFIS and add new capabilities, including facial recognition.
Read More →Apple said Wednesday night that it is making it impossible for the company to turn over data from most iPhones or iPads to police — even when they have a search warrant.
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Ocean Systems' QuickDME is a secure end-to-end digital evidence asset manager that is easy to integrate within or between law enforcement agencies, allowing them to automate and standardize the ingesting, storage, dissemination, and tracking of all their digital assets involved in a case.
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An army of federal and local law enforcement agents stormed Los Angeles’ fashion district Wednesday, arresting nine suspects, seizing $65 million and searching businesses that federal prosecutors allege have been laundering money for criminals including drug dealers and Mexican drug cartel kidnappers.
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Conrad's arrest was captured on Officer Robert Pitts' body camera. The video shows Conrad standing waist-deep in the lake encouraging officers to shoot him while holding his 12-inch knife.
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The wounded officer, a roughly 18-year veteran of the Gretna Police Department, was part of a Westbank Major Crime Task Force that was attempting to stop two men suspected of selling heroin around 2:30 p.m.
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