Category Archives: US Crime labs

Forensics: Speaker Mike Johnson’s Louisiana distict has a much worse murder rate but Chicago is the target. Northern District of Illinois | U.S. Attorney’s Office and Other DOJ Components Provide Update on Increased Federal Prosecutions and Ongoing Strategies to Combat Violent Crime in Chicago

Northern District of Illinois | U.S. Attorney’s Office and Other DOJ Components Provide Update on Increased Federal Prosecutions and Ongoing Strategies to Combat Violent Crime in Chicago | United States Department of Justice — Read on http://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/us-attorneys-office-and-other-doj-components-provide-update-increased-federal

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Forensics: Im jealous. Chico State to Break Ground on New Human Identification Laboratory – Chico State Today

Excellence in research and education. Too bad US forensic dentists have no equivalent. Their specialty is dieing. Rapid DNA testing human remains leads the way. When completed, the new 28,600-square-foot facility will replace the existing laboratory and enable the team … Continue reading

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Forensics: Crime scene. Who does the investigation? ICE agent wounds marshal and TikTok streamer, who is charged with assault – Los Angeles Times

Carlitos Ricardo Parias was charged Tuesday night with assault on a federal officer after the immigration operation in L.A. in which the suspect and a U.S. marshal were injured. — Read on http://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-21/immigration-enforcement-hurt-operation-southla

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Forensics: Militarizing police personified. Judge Denies LAPD Request To Use Force Against Journalists During No Kings Protests

By Owen Sullivan | 17 October 2025 — Read on http://www.crustiandaily.news/p/judge-denies-lapd-request-to-use

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Forensics: The sensitive forensic teams identifying bodies of Hamas’s hostages

At the Abu Kabir institute in Jaffa, doctors are using their expertise to verify the dead and return them to their Israeli families waiting to mourn — Read on http://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-war/article/hamas-hostages-bodies-return-forensic-teams-80dbf7sr6

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Forensics: Incredible story of mistakes and lies used to convict. Plus a forensic quack. Oregon police, forensics lab actions result in $14 million payout for Coos County man

Oregon police, forensics lab actions result in $14 million payout for Coos County man – OPB — Read on http://www.opb.org/article/2025/09/22/oregon-police-crime-coos-county-nicholas-mcguffin-lawsuit/

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Forensics: The Wild West of digital forensics expertise challenges. Who is in charge?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/larsdaniel/2025/04/27/digital-forensics-why-licensing-would-make-expertise-worse/

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Forensics: Faulty expert testimony and inaccurate cop investigation leads to $25M payout. 30 years in prison

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/investigations/former-investigator-co-defendant-speak-trial-wrongful-conviction/3519023/

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Forensics: Trumps descent into criminal justice hell in the US.

Forensics: Details of Trumps evisceration of criminal justice. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/project-2025s-plan-criminal-justice-under-trump

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Forensics: Police profiling methos debunked by DNA.

Another example of junk Cop forensics and assumptions concerning criminal behavior. https://www.jezebel.com/how-rape-kits-debunked-junk-science-like-behavioral-profiling

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