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Monthly Archives: January 2022
Forensics: This police lab is a total wreck. Oversight Hearing Reveals More Issues at DC Crime Lab – WCP
The DC crime lab lost its accreditation last year. Its interim director says he has no solid plan for returning to regular operations. — Read on washingtoncitypaper.com/article/545794/oversight-hearing-reveals-more-issues-at-crime-lab/
Forensic DNA: Forensic Science Helps to Shed Light on Impact of Tulsa Race Massacre | Lab Manager
Non-profit DNA testing laboratory strives to identify victims of Tulsa Race Massacre — Read on http://www.labmanager.com/news/forensic-science-helps-to-shed-light-on-impact-of-tulsa-race-massacre-27423
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Tagged genocide, KKK, racial violence in the US, Tulsa massacre
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Forensics: The Innocence Projects’ plans for its next 30 years.
innocenceproject.org/in-the-vanguard-of-justice-reform-the-road-ahead/
Forensics: How a local ME agency uses the NAMUS system for its unknown persons. District Six Medical Examiner – Unidentified Persons
District Six Medical Examiner – Unidentified Persons — Read on http://www.pinellascounty.org/forensics/me_unidentified.htm
Forensics: Pennsylvania wants to use NAMUS via a New missing person bill that will require national reporting
Only 11 US states mandate the use of the NIJ funded NAMUS database which combines both public access of family info requests and law enforcement missing persons reports. NAMUS is located here: https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/ HARRISBURG, Pa. (WTAJ) — Pennsylvania currently ranks … Continue reading
Forensics: Police corruption. Watts Scandal Grows as Attorneys Prepare for More Exonerations
Cook County prosecutors are believed to be preparing to overturn the convictions of scores of individuals arrested on narcotics charges by corrupt Chicago… — Read on http://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/watts-scandal-grows-as-attorneys-prepare-for-more-exonerations/2730906/
Forensics: First Black female in Tennessee. A 74-Year-Old Black Woman Gets Exonerated After Spending 28 Years in Prison
Joyce Watkins was granted parole in 2015, but she immediately began taking steps towards clearing her name and getting her 1988 conviction overturned. — Read on http://www.complex.com/life/black-woman-exoneration-prison-innocence
Forensics: Genealogy DNA. Remains, found in Lincoln, identified more than 9 years later
The case began when a Talladega County deputy and a reserve officer working at the Racetrack during race week located human remains behind an abandoned house on Allred Road. — Read on http://www.wsfa.com/2022/01/14/remains-found-lincoln-identified-more-than-9-years-later/
Forensics: Satellites and geology methods. The science that is helping researchers find the ‘disappeared’ in Latin America
Researchers are using modern forensic techniques to find the bodies of victims of civil conflict in Latin America. — Read on uk.news.yahoo.com/science-helping-researchers-disappeared-latin-112505035.html
Forensics: Police used fake DNA reports during interrogations, Virginia attorney general says
Im sure they fake other forensic “data” as a SOP. Virginia Beach police used forged documents that linked people’s DNA to a crime to get them to confess or cooperate with investigators, Virginia’s outgoing attorney general said. — Read on … Continue reading
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