Tag: Evidence Software

VENTURA, Calif. -- The eyes of the crime scene analyst at the Ventura County Sheriff's Department's Forensic Sciences Laboratory seemed to be absorbed by the slide underneath the powerful microscope ...

First the Federal Bureau of Investigation brought forth Drugfire. It was a wonderful concept--a computer based system, incorporating video to input images of stria from fired cartridge cases and bullets, ...

1. Which best describes the size of your agency in the number of sworn officers?a. Less than 20. 14%b. 21 to 50. 17%c. 51 to 100. 21%d. 100 to 500. ...

It's a sad fact of police life that investigators and technical specialists are often not available for response to "routine" or "mundane" incidents. Shrinking budgets, reallocations of resources, and growing ...

The opportunity to purchase new equipment doesn't always happen because you need new equipment. More than likely, you've needed new equipment for quite a while. More often, you have a ...

NEW ORLEANS -- It started with a hunk of chrome being picked up by a construction crane digging concrete and steel beams out of Chef Menteur Pass on June 11.The ...

In a society where violence seems to be more accepted as a way of doing business than ever before, firearms arrests are an increasing occurrence. How we handle them determines ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The .40-caliber Glock handgun stolen from a sheriff's deputy claimed the lives of four men in three days and left a trail of evidence in ...

NEW YORK The makers of a small, digital camera that attaches to the barrel of a gun say the device would have ended any dispute about what happened in the ...

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. -- Using a large vacuum tube and metal sifters, a local plumbing company spent the weekend helping a team of divers comb a canal in hopes of ...