This is a presentation I gave at the French Embassy, at an event organized by the Government Business Executive Forum (GBEF), in which I discuss my thoughts on the future of law enforcement technology. I was introduced by my friend and colleague, Adam Lee.
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One of the most important lessons I learned in law school happened in “Contracts.” But it didn’t just apply to contracts. It was still early in my legal education, and one of my fellow students raised his hand. In frustration, he asked the question that was on all our minds: “When are you going to
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I appeared on CNN’s ‘Laura Coates Live’ to explain how forensics can connect firearms to crimes; whether 3D-printed guns make that harder; and what role it might play in the investigation and prosecution of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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Like most places, Las Vegas has its share of illegal guns. I was happy to discuss one source of them in this piece by Bryan Horwath at the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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“My pleasure!” I love Chick-fil-A Restaurants. Everyone does. Even would-be murderers. And in this case, we have the evidence. I’ll warn you at the outset: this story is missing some parts. Reading the appellate court’s opinion left me feeling like I showed up to a movie about 15 minutes late. And a bad movie, at
If you’re an aspiring political arsonist, no need to be fussy about the materials you use. Just go with what you have on hand. For instance, this guy used leftover containers of olives, peanut butter (the ‘natural’ kind), eggs, and Bombay Sapphire gin. Add a little gasoline and voilà: Molotov cocktails. He then (allegedly) used
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For years now, I’ve been an active contributor of posts to LinkedIn that I hope were both engaging and informative. Now that I have this website, I may (or may not) shift much of my writing activity here. We’ll see. I’m not walking away from LinkedIn. I’ll still link what I write here, there. In
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One of the most useful things I learned at the ATF Academy was how to breathe. (Another one: how to back up a car at a high rate of speed. I still use that a lot!) You can’t imagine how tempted I was to post a picture that says “Just Breathe” and then watch 10,000
Police photo arrays aren’t supposed to be like Sesame Street, where “one of these things is not like the others” and there are clues to help you pick which one is different. Instead, the array should be presented in a neutral way that does not suggest the answer. The witness being shown the array should
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Everyone knows ‘Miranda’ but if you know ‘Garrity’ and ‘Kalkines’ you were probably in (or investigated by) Internal Affairs. Not all investigations of people suspected of committing crimes are criminal investigations. Some are administrative (because when employees go bad, employers must have facts to decide what to do about it). Administrative investigations have their own
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