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Even after the report by the National Academy of Sciences recommending that forensic labs be independent of police and prosecutor’s offices, those groups still fight to give not give up control (and thereby influence the results of forensic analysis) of crime labs. D.C.’s top forensic scientist has been transferred out of the police department amid an [Continue Reading Cops Fight to Keep Control of Crime Lab...] Recently the NAS report described how institutional bias should be avoided by having crime labs removed from police/prosecutor’s agencies. The article quoted below ran in PoliceOne.com, and talks about how police officers can contribute to bias in forensic examination. A police officer rushes up to the fingerprint examiner and pleads for help. The suspect sitting in The Houston Chronicle published a op-ed over the weekend, calling for change in their police crime lab. Even going as far as suggesting it’s time to close it down, and open up a regional crime lab that works with, but is independent of law enforcement agencies. According to the audit, HPD workers often overlooked prints [Continue Reading Houston Chronicle on the Houston PD Crime Lab...] Orange County California is picking up what I’ve been putting down. They are looking at either creating a new, or moving the current crime lab away from the police and prosecutor, and make them their own agency. This move would be in compliance with the NAS report’s suggestion as a way to reduce [Continue Reading Orange County California Looking at Independent Forensics Agency...] Admittedly that’s a bit over an overstatement for a article title, but it gets the readers attention. A recent study at the University of Buffalo have concluded that bitemark evidence can’t be linked back to a given individual. Bitemark evidence can certainly be used to exclude and include a suspect, but to go [Continue Reading Bitemark Experts Agree, Bitemark Evidence Isn’t Reliable...] |
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