Modern Marvels FBI Crime Lab Latent Prints and DNA Sections

Modern Marvels high­lights the FBI Crime Lab’s Latent Print and

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Latent Prints at the Boise Police Forensic Crime Lab

A look at latent print analy­sis at the Boise PD Crime Lab.

This video intro­duc­tion gives you a peek into the world of the Boise Police Crime Lab and the peo­ple who make it all hap­pen. The pri­mary respon­si­bil­ity of the Crime Lab is to apply sci­en­tific lab­o­ra­tory test­ing pro­ce­dures to the analy­sis of phys­i­cal crime fin­ger­print evidence

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Houston PD Fingerprint Unit

My last blog post seems to have a much “rosier” view on the cur­rent state of the Houston PD crime lab fin­ger­print unit, than the local news­pa­per did here.

A Houston Police Department offi­cial con­firmed Wednesday that a crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tion is under way into alleged wrong­do­ing at HPD’s fin­ger­print­ing com­par­i­son unit, which is under scrutiny fol­low­ing an

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More Problems for Houston PD Crime Lab

During a re-accreditation attempt by the Houston PD crime lab with ASCLD-LAB (Association of Crime Laboratory Directors — Laboratory Accreditation Board), the exter­nal audi­tors found problems:

The depart­ment said it iden­ti­fied sev­eral prob­lems includ­ing insuf­fi­cient staffing, lack of proper super­vi­sory review, inad­e­quate qual­ity control/quality assur­ance pro­to­cols, tech­ni­cal com­pe­tence incon­sis­tent with indus­try stan­dards, insuf­fi­cient train­ing and inad­e­quate standard

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CSI Miami Episode 703 “And How Does That Make You Kill?”

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For a more detailed episode review, please read here.

This episode deals with the mur­der of Delko’s therapist’s daugh­ter, and even­tu­ally the ther­a­pist her­self. Somewhat dis­ap­point­ing, this episode was weak on a few fronts.

The first being Horatio’s open­ing line, “So did I.” I don’t care how you spin that one, it just wasn’t

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