Someone should hire Katja Base as a skip tracer. The AP is reporting on this mother of 6, who used some street smarts, detective and investigative skills to track down some teen pranksters that vandalized her house. As a result of her amateur detective work, 6 teenagers are now facing vandalism charges. You can read […]
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Here is an interesting example of how a modern software program like Adobe PhotoShop has built in a crime prevention feature that helps to stop the counterfeiting of money. Adobe uses a currency-detection algorithm to prevent the use of their Photoshop graphical editing software for printing of currency images with a popup window that alerts […]
San Diego County has made available to the public a freely searchable mapping system that allows users to search for regional crimes in San Diego County. Users can search crimes by neighborhood, address, zip code, date and time. The crime mapping search collects information from all law enforcement agencies from all of San Diego County, […]
The BBC is reporting on a proposal that would place web cameras along the Texas-Mexico border and allow anyone with an internet connection to monitor illegal immigration ‘hot spots’ from anywhere in the world and report sightings to authorities. From the article — A US state is to enlist web users in its fight against […]
Here is a recent article from NewsWeek that shows just how important Web 2.0 blogs and social networks are becoming to law enforcement and legal professionals when conducting investigations. Law enforcement officials are increasingly turning to social network sites like MySpace and FaceBook to help solve crimes and bring wrongdoers to justice. From the article […]
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