Tag: Investigations: Page 22

Technology

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

Technology

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

Patrol

Connecticut Governor Signs Bill to Promote Police Disclosure of Arrest Information

Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed a bill to bring arrest details to light as part of the state's sunshine law ensuring public access to government records and proceedings.

July 10, 2015

Technology

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

Patrol

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

Technology

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

Technology

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

Technology

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

Patrol

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

Training

ASPCA Poll Reveals LEOs Lack Resources, Training to Properly Address Dog Fighting

A nationwide poll of law enforcement released today by the ASPCA exposes serious obstacles for law enforcement to investigate one of the most horrific forms of animal cruelty—dog fighting.

April 8, 2015

Patrol

Washington K-9 Dies After Inhaling Meth

A Tacoma (Wash.) PD K-9 named Barney has died after he came in contact with unwrapped powdered methamphetamine during a narcotics investigation, the Pierce County prosecutor's office said Thursday.

March 27, 2015

Technology

Prosecutors Criticize D.C. Crime Lab’s Handling of Some DNA Evidence

D.C. prosecutors have stopped sending DNA evidence to the city’s new state-of-the-art crime lab after they said they discovered errors in the way analysts determined whether a sample can be linked to a suspect or a victim.

March 6, 2015