I'd be hard pressed to say which I enjoyed more, but was delighted to part of two evenings that were not only enjoyable, but which raised funds for two very worthwhile causes —
the national Crime Lab project, and the Wetumpka Public Library.
Not exact matches
The news came a year after Attorney General Jeff Sessions disbanded the
National Commission on Forensic Science, an Obama administration - era collaboration between the Justice Department and the
National Institutes of Standards and Technology that brought together scientists, judicial players including prosecutors, defense lawyers, federal
crime labs directors in an effort to improve forensic science.
Holt and Rakoff noted that many other recommendations for improving forensic techniques that the
National Academy of Sciences outlined have been adopted by state and local
crime labs and led to the implementation of codes of professional conduct governing forensic laboratories and other practices.
A crucial
National Research Council report issued in 2009 noted that most forensic disciplines have not been subjected to rigorous scientific study, arising as they have from
crime labs, not academia.
Bureau of Justice Statistics: Information on anything related to U.S. justice system, including arrest - related deaths, census of jail inmates,
national survey of DNA
crime labs, surveys of law enforcement gang units, etc..
From our
crime lab to the prosecutor's office to indigent defense, Houston and Harris County have deservingly received
national ridicule for practices leading to the conviction of the innocent.
Forensics have been in the federal limelight since a 2009
National Research Council report found much of the science in
crime labs wanting (C&EN, June 25, page 32).
Last February, the
National Academy of Science issued a report criticizing the sloppy practices of
crime labs, imprecise scientific tests, and the exaggeration in court of the scientific reliability of results.
Earlier this year, The
National High Tech
Crime Unit of the Netherlands» police and Kaspersky
Lab announced that they would help victims recover from CoinVault ransomware.
Corporal Brent Hill of the Ontario Division of RCMP's
National Chemical Diversion Program says, «Where there is easy illegal profit to be made, there is organized
crime, and organized
crime is gaining a steady foothold into the clandestine
lab business.