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Big Data Fights Crime: The FBI's Next Generation Identification
IAFIS contains over 55 million sets of fingerprints and is used by law enforcement agencies nationwide for criminal investigations and civil background checks. To keep pace of the evolution of biometrics as well as the ever-growing demand for
Updated: 12/11/2011 03:19A
Does 'Eye for an Eye' Have a Place Today?
Even though Indonesia acceded to the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 2006, the country still doles out capital punishment for terrorism, production and distribution of illegal drugs, and other crimes that lead to deaths.
Updated: 12/11/2011 03:11A
City's exclusion zone gets another public airing
Supporters of the law — including a number of downtown business owners — have said it enables police to quickly rid the area of troublemakers, since it can take months for a criminal case to play out in court. Since October 2008, 130 people have been
Updated: 12/11/2011 03:07A
Editorial | Halt executions
retired judges and attorneys who studied capital punishment laws and procedures for the past two years found that they do not “sufficiently protect the innocent, convict the guilty and ensure the fair and efficient enforcement of criminal law.
Updated: 12/11/2011 03:01A
Injunctions! Be Damned!!
But w hen instead of doing his job and ordering the protesters to move their tents when he decided that was what needed to be done, instead goes to the BC Supreme Court and asked Madam Justice Mackenzie to do it for him. She happily obliged.
Updated: 12/11/2011 02:41A
Walt McNeil: Crime-fighters need national help
Yet despite the importance of our mission to the security of communities and the United States, we still lack a central, comprehensive plan to guide our national criminal justice efforts as they adjust to the new realities of crime and terror in the
Updated: 12/11/2011 02:01A
Minor issue: Why Wisconsin's justice system continues to treat 17-year-olds as
Vicky Gunderson became involved in juvenile justice issues after the suicide of her 17-year-old son, Kirk, while he was in the La Crosse County jail in 2005. Erik Daily/La Crosse Tribune Two days after Christmas 2005, Kirk Gunderson hanged himself with
Updated: 12/11/2011 01:35A
Minor offenders, major consequences
Racine County District Attorney Mike Nieskes supports the state law that treats 17-year-olds as adults in the criminal justice system. Courtesy of Pete Selkowe But Racine County District Attorney Michael Nieskes argues Wisconsin's juvenile system is
Updated: 12/11/2011 01:15A
Other view: Bill won't prevent child sexual abuse
Maybe we need more criminal laws. How about a law that makes it a crime to witness child sexual abuse and not report it to the proper authorities? In November, former Penn State football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was accused of sexually
Updated: 12/11/2011 01:12A
Crime lab contamination central in Victorino's 2nd death sentence appeal
DAYTONA BEACH -- A "major DNA contamination problem" in 2005 at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's crime lab in Orlando will be at the center of an appeal hearing this week by Troy Victorino, the leader of the group convicted of the 2004 "Xbox
Updated: 12/11/2011 12:54A
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