Gang Graffiti, Crime Increase in Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City’s valleywide metro gang unit reports a marked increase in graffiti cases, along with an increase in gang crimes.

Connecting the Dots

Computers have revolutionized the art of crime mapping. Once just an exercise of sticking pins into a map glued to a bulletin board, crime mapping is now built on a foundation of “geographic information systems,” or GIS, a fancy term for creating, updating, and analyzing computerized maps.

InfinaDyne CD/DVD Inspector 2.1

Nowadays it's easier to commit a crime with a computer than with a gun.

Award Recognizes Observant Officers

The seventh annual Looking Beyond the License Plate award program recognizes law enforcement officers whose observation of a license plate led to the arrest of a suspect or to a crime being solved. The entry deadline is June 1, 2004.

The CAD Zone Law Enforcement Drawing Software

The CAD Zone's latest releases of The Crime Zone and The Crash Zone law enforcement drawing applications (now both at version 7.2) are worth a billion words and more.

Non-Students Suffer More Violence Than College Students

A new study indicates that college students were victimized by violent crime at a lower rate than non-students of the same age between 1995 and 2000.

Fingerprinting System

The sweetFINGER Solution from Atsonic is a portable wireless fingerprinting system that allows law enforcement to scan, collect, and verify biometrics data in real time directly from checkpoints, crime scenes, and other field situations. Adaptive algorithms are used for image decomposing and processing.

Instant Imaging

Today, instant law enforcement photography has taken a quantum leap with the adoption of digital cameras by many departments.

Laser Technology Inc. QuickMap 3D

Getting Justice for Lisa

When violent crimes are committed in Boulder, they often involve UC students. One such crime was the brutal abduction and gang rape of a young woman that we'll call "Lisa."