Many thanks to Eric for posting a link to an Nanowerk News article about how nanotechnology is being used to recover fingerprints. From Nanowerk News: Despite fingerprinting being essentially the foundation technique of modern forensic science, only a fraction of all the fingermarks at a crime scene are actually detected. Now the work of University […]

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While it’s a surprise to no one, it’s good that the subject of the CompStat numbers has finally come up and is being aired publicly. I know that some people are like, “so what else is new,” and they don’t believe this is a big deal since crime is, in fact, genuinely down.  But it […]

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Oh God. I don’t want to believe this is even possible. A February 23rd Los Angeles Times article by Harriet Ryan about the Phil Spector trial begins, “When it came to hiring expert witnesses for his murder defense, Phil Spector went for the top of the line. The scientists he retained to analyze evidence in the […]

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“Forensic evidence that has helped convict thousands of defendants for nearly a century is often the product of shoddy scientific practices that should be upgraded and standardized, according to accounts of a draft report by the nation’s pre-eminent scientific research group. “The report by the National Academy of Sciences is to be released this month.”  From an […]

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