Tag: LAWENFORCEMENT

This week, some Washington state lawmakers are pushing a proposal that would require police to extract DNA from every arrested individual. At present, Washington police take DNA samples only from those who have already been convicted of a crime, as a warrant is necessary to obtain the DNA of mere suspects. Under the provisions of the proposal, the collected DNA would be sent off to a State ...

Technology: 1, old people: 0. Police apprehended a woman who allegedly kidnapped her 9-year-old granddaughter using GPS and Google Maps to track the child's cell phone. After picking up the child on Saturday in Massachusetts, the 52-year-old grandmother apparently threatened to keep her granddaughter, telling the girl's guardians they'd never see her again. Once police knew that the girl ...

The CBC and Radio Canada have run a bunch of Taser tests recently, and the results aren't likely to reassure anyone. US-based testing lab National Technical Systems pulled 41 X26 units out of 7 random police stations across the nation, and fired each at least six times. What happened? Well, four of them threw off a current "significantly" higher than a stun gun is supposed to, including some that ...

Surely your remember Project Lantern from back in 2006, right? If you weren't too fond of that initiative, let's just say your worst nightmare is coming true. Going forward, every police force in the UK will be equipped with mobile fingerprint scanners, which will allow the fuzz to carry out identity checks right on the street. Dubbed Project Midas, this here setup is supposed to "transform the ...

GPS isn't just for helping the terminally lost any more. Now, law enforcement officials are using the technology to track suspects of domestic violence and stalking. Michigan is the latest state to get on board -- it's even added an automated system that alerts the victims of the crime if the perp is nearby. The biggest advantage of the new Michigan GPS system (the result of a grisly murder by ...

As USA Today reported yesterday, the Clermont County, OH sheriff's department is mopping up the mean streets of Cincinnati with assistance from the very latest in crime-fighting techno-gadgetry. The newly deployed Mobilisa m2500 DefenseID system is a handheld scanner that reads the magnetic strip or barcode on state IDs, driver's licenses and passports. The system then checks the ID against 140 ...