A Forensics Company Tells Cops It Can Use DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face. Scientists Worry the Tool Will Deepen Racial Bias.

Posted on February 2, 2025 by csidds

A Forensics Company Tells Cops It Can Use DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face. Scientists Worry the Tool Will Deepen Racial Bias.

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Forensic pathology: When doggies bite, who did it? 🧪

Posted on February 1, 2025 by csidds

Forensic pathology: When doggies bite, who did it? 🧪

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0379073825000301

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Forensics: French spousal rapist investigated for more sexual crimes.

Posted on January 31, 2025 by csidds

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/gisele-pelicot-dominique-husband-jail-b2689156.html

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Forensics: The medical dystopian nightmare of the tin-hat icon and crank RFKjr

Posted on January 29, 2025 by csidds

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-junk-science-of-robert-f-kennedy-jr

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

Posted on January 29, 2025 by csidds

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: “Back the Blue” got chumped again.

Posted on January 29, 2025 by csidds

22 State AGs sue to protect forensic crime labs, police funding, disaster relief, and public services.

https://ncdoj.gov/attorney-general-jeff-jackson-sues-to-block-freeze-on-federal-funds/

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Forensics: Massive police crime lab scandal in Colorado. Faked DNA results affects hundreds of cases.

Posted on January 25, 2025 by csidds

https://washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/01/23/dna-test-fraud-colorado/

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Forensics: How error published error rates in Forensic Science and Expert Testimony are doctored to improve accuracy claims. Criminal Justice System | Nature Research Intelligence

Posted on January 25, 2025 by csidds

When police forensics tests proficiency, you can finagle the results to look more accurate. Fingerprint matching especially.

https://www.nature.com/research-intelligence/forensic-science-and-expert-testimony-in-the-criminal-justice-system

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Forensics: Police profiling methos debunked by DNA.

Posted on January 20, 2025 by csidds

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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Forensics: Prosecutors give excuses and denials for wrongful convictions.

Posted on January 17, 2025 by csidds

Forensics: False conviction lawsuits creates a blame game between cops and prosecutors. Typical.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/allan-woodhouse-brian-anderson-lawsuit-defence-1.7433555

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