Tag: IT

Crime analysts are often highly educated individuals whose skills are underutilized in law enforcement agencies. Most crime analysts have bachelor's degrees and are well-trained in specific analytical skills. Yet too ...

Pull a U-turn, there's Sartellie! Teddy Sartellie was a well-known heroin user. He was reaching for the door of a brand new Ford I knew he didn't own. In a ...

When police officers in the Albion (Mich.) Department of Public Safety want to review reports on several incidents and look at photos of possible suspects, they don’t have to go ...

The Crime Analysis Unit DEVELOPER’S KIT, produced by the Crime Mapping and Analysis Program (CMAP) and the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC)-Rocky Mountain, contains documents, tools and ...

No matter how computer literate you get, eventually you’ll stumble over something you find difficult. For me, it’s graphics. I don’t mean tweaking photographs or even editing video. I can ...

When breath-testing instruments were introduced in the 1950s, they were a groundbreaking new technology. Fifty years later, current and emerging technologies remain the key to reducing drunk driving. Although drunk-driving ...

Cellular phones have become one of the most common communication devices available because they offer mobile communications at a reasonable cost and, in most urban areas, have great coverage. As ...

We all make choices in our careers for good and bad. Sometimes just speaking our minds will inadvertently cause a career choice. This is the story of how one such ...

Individual officers & management commonly throw these questions out when asked about how their agency's records are stored & used. A records management system (RMS) is basically a data-storage system ...

You're a computer forensic examiner for your department, working on a network intrusion case. The evidence you extract from several computers and firewall logs clearly shows the suspect broke through ...