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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 or [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 institutional [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 any [Continue Reading Bitemark Experts Agree, Bitemark Evidence Isn’t Reliable…] It would seem Congress has finally taken up hearings on the NAS report written months ago. Congress seemed to agree to allocate more funds for training, research in the field, and federal standards should be created for labs and analysts. They didn’t agree on setting up a federal agency. …the federal government shouldn’t “try to micromanage every [Continue Reading Congress Finally Has Hearings on the NAS Report…] NPR authored an article pointing out that the push to form a national forensic oversight committee has stalled. Could it be that the government has more important things on their hands now days than the creation of a new bureaucratic body? The end result of which would undoubtedly the recommendation for legislation, or creation [Continue Reading NPR Report on the NAS Report…] |
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