“It’s all that other context that you have to use to prove this thing that on paper appears legal was a crime,” Thomas Chittum, former associate deputy director of the ATF said. “That’s why firearms trafficking cases are hard to make. Catching a felon with a gun is easy.” Firearms trafficking is a serious crime […]
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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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Perhaps the creepiest song of the 1980s was “Into the Night.” The opening lyric: “She’s just 16 years old, leave her alone they said.” It fits this case from Ohio perfectly. Brian Tejeda was already a registered sex offender when he developed a fixation on a 16 year old girl. He was 26. The girl
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ICYMI (and are interested in better crime stats), here’s a link to a conversation I recently had with David Hatten about the Real Time Crime Index. The RTCI is a collaborative initiative from Jeff Asher, Dave, and Arnold Ventures to provide more timely crime statistics. Learn why it’s important, who benefits, and how your agency
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Here’s an interesting side note to this would-be assassin’s plan to kill a Supreme Court Justice: He carefully followed the law on traveling by air with the firearm he intended to use. As I’ve previously written (https://lnkd.in/gQ67giFe), it isn’t difficult to fly with a gun, but the law does regulate it. Technically, 18 U.S.C. §
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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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As I drafted the opening line of this post, I didn’t intend to make a pun…but there is a lot of mental firepower behind this report. Over the last several years, ATF has used the large amount of data it has to produce four useful, authoritative reports. Yesterday it released the fourth volume. Together, they
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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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Defense attorneys get a bad rap. I’ve said many times before that the men and women on the front lines of law enforcement are my heroes, and prosecutors are my favorite kind of attorneys. That’s true, but I have tremendous respect for defense counsel, too. I believe police and prosecutors are vital to maintaining an
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