Current State of Arizona Crime Labs

An inter­est­ing arti­cle below regard­ing the state of police crime labs here in Arizona. It boils down to the stan­dard debate/disagreement between aca­d­e­mics vs prac­ti­tion­ers in the field of foren­sic science.

Please note, Forensics Guy, Inc. is not only inde­pen­dent, but also certified.

Even though tech­niques for ana­lyz­ing crime-scene evi­dence have grown more sophis­ti­cated every decade, oversight

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Science Found Wanting in Nation’s Crime Labs

The arti­cle below hints at harsh crit­i­cism of foren­sic sci­ence in gen­eral. Comparing other foren­sic dis­ci­plines to DNA analy­sis, and an appar­ent lack of “objectivity”.

Let’s be clear on one thing, ALL of foren­sic sci­ence entails some amount of sub­jec­tiv­ity, even the holy grail that is DNA. I per­son­ally was involved in a homi­cide case

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