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April 12th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu The April 9 release of lapel video and dash cam footage has shed fresh light on the fatal shooting of Darian Jarrott, a New Mexico State Police Officer in February 2021. Jarrott was shot and killed in the line...
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April 12th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Deepti Govind If you thought child marriage was a problem that only developing countries faced, think again. It is an equally real, and worrisome, problem in the U.S. too. Read this: Nearly 300,000 minors, under age 18, were legally married in...
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April 9th, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy a Biometrica Staffer According to an October 2019 report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), there were 1,954 background screening companies operating in the United States in that year, with a total revenue of about $3.2 billion. According to the...
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April 9th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu President Joe Biden’s announcement of six actions impacting gun regulation on April 8, following three mass shooting incidents earlier in the year, met with sharp reactions. As expected, the NRA was strongly critical of Biden’s announcements. “Let's be clear...
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April 8th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu On Thursday morning, speaking from the Rose Garden and flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris and Attorney General Merrick Garland and less than 24 hours after yet another mass shooting, this time in South Carolina, President Joe Biden announced an...
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April 8th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Charlotte Spencer A Mississippi businessman was indicted January 12, 2021 for hoarding and price gouging PPE. Many who heard of such practices have found them distasteful, but did not realize they were actually illegal too. So does that mean there ought...
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April 7th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Kathy Nicholl They meet in an unusual and rather unexpected setting — at a religious gathering. She takes her time and recounts to the judge in her child protection case what her father has done to her. The judge asks if...
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April 7th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer There were more law enforcement officers who died from suicide than those that died in the line of duty in 2017, 2018 and 2019. There were 168 such deaths in 2017, followed by 172 in 2018, and 228...
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April 6th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu For nearly 20 years, Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, known to the world as The Unabomber, terrorized Americans, planting bombs at various locations, killing three people and injuring many more. Kaczynski was eventually captured on April 3, 1996, after his idiosyncratic writing...
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April 6th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Nigel White Thirty years ago, in 1991, Louisiana became the fourth state to approve riverboat gaming, an event of particular significance to me, as I was hired as employee No. 2 in Baton Rouge, joining Casino Rouge as Vice President of...
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Nevada Casinos That Want To Operate At Higher Capacity Must Encourage Staff To Take Covid-19 Vaccine
April 5th, 2021category: News ReportsBy Anand Vasu The Nevada Gaming Commission has said that casinos seeking to operate at higher than 50% capacity — which will be allowed from May 1 — need to take steps that encourage their workers to take the Covid-19 vaccine. This...
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April 5th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer A day after Easter, we take a look at data on arson- and explosive-related incidents across houses of worship in the U.S. in 2019. Although the report, published by the ATF, includes accidental and natural fires, we specifically...
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April 2nd, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy Anand Vasu A substantial surge in March, a month which had several mass shootings as the United States began returning to business as usual, resulted in the FBI conducting more background checks for individuals wanting to buy firearms in the first...
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April 2nd, 2021category: News ReportsBy a Biometrica Staffer On April 1, 15 days after she assumed office as the 54th United States Secretary of the Interior, Secretary Deb Haaland announced the formation of a new Missing & Murdered Unit (MMU) within the Bureau of Indian Affairs...
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April 1st, 2021category: News ReportsBy a Biometrica Staffer The evening of Wednesday, March 31, became another horrific American statistic, as four people, including a child, were gunned down in an office complex in Orange, California, about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Lt. Jennifer Amat, a...
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April 1st, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Charlotte Spencer Last week, on March 22, 67-year-old Gregory Paul Ulrich made a virtual 10-minute appearance in front of a Minnesota judge, who ordered what's called a "Rule 20 evaluation" to determine if Ulrich was mentally competent to stand trial. On...
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March 31st, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu Tony Hernández, a former Honduran Congressman, was sentenced to life in prison and ordered to forfeit $138.5 million for distributing 185 tons of cocaine, and related firearms and false statements offenses. Over a 15-year-period, Hernández played a leadership role...
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March 31st, 2021category: Feature StoriesHere is a staggering estimate: 75% of victims of child sexual abuse material are reportedly under the age of 12, 63% under the age of eight. Children are more likely to be abused by someone they have a relationship with, either virtual...
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March 30th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu Pope Francis has said that laws must reflect “the equality of all members of the church,” indicating that further reforms of the Vatican City penal code were likely, especially to deal with financial crimes. In a March 27 meeting...
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March 30th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Michael P. Johnson Prior to March 2020, when walking through the front doors of any casino resort hotel, whether it was on the Las Vegas Strip, in Atlantic City, or on the Mississippi Coast, you would typically spot a security officer,...
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March 29th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu On March 29, 12 jurors and two alternates in Minneapolis started to hear opening arguments in the trial of Derek Chauvin. It began with the video of Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck being shown to the jury. This comes...
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March 29th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer Image Source: Screengrab from the Sentencing Commission's FY2020 preliminary report showing federal offenders by type of crime Four types of offenses accounted for 86.4% of all reported cases to the United States Sentencing Commission (called "the Commission" hereon)...
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March 26th, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy a Biometrica staffer The short answer, yes. The longer answer is that yes, they can, but for most kinds of background checks, including obtaining a criminal background check report, running a credit check, or information on school transcripts, they need permission...
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March 26th, 2021category: News ReportsBy Anand Vasu The U.S. Supreme Court, on Thursday, March 25, declined to block an initiative banning bump stocks, the modification that allows semi-automatic rifles to fire bullets at nearly the same frequency as fully automatic rifles or machine guns. Delivered in...
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March 25th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Anand Vasu The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on March 24 that states could restrict the open carry of guns. Justice Jay Bybee wrote in the majority opinion that: “There is no right to carry arms openly in public; nor...
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March 25th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Charlotte Spencer On Wednesday, March 24, 2021, there was a key ruling in the long legal battle between gun rights activists and gun control activists in the United States. It won’t be the last ruling on gun regulation by far, but...
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March 24th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Kacy Robinson There is nothing more important to a search and rescue handler than his or her canine. We have multiple tools at our disposal depending on the circumstances of the search, but without our canine partners, we are not searchers....
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March 24th, 2021category: News ReportsBy Anand Vasu Carlos Hernandez, a senior member of a Los Angeles-based Latino street gang called Big Hazard, was sentenced on March 23 to 16 years in federal prison for orchestrating and executing the night-time firebombing of African-American families at the Ramona...
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March 23rd, 2021category: News ReportsBy Anand Vasu A gunman opened fire at a King Soopers outlet in Boulder, Colo., at approximately 2.40pm local time on Monday, March 22, killing 10, including police officer Eric Talley, who responded to the incident. Boulder is about 25 miles northwest...
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March 23rd, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Deepti Govind On Monday, March 22, 51-year-old Boulder Police Officer Eric Talley, a man who waded into ditches to rescue ducklings, a loving father to seven children, and the first officer to respond to reports of an armed man being inside a...
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March 22nd, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer The First Step Act (FSA) of 2018 requires the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to collect data from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) through its National Prisoner Statistics program on a number of different topics and to...
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March 19th, 2021category: News ReportsBy a Biometrica staffer On March 18, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released new information and videos of suspects in the U.S. Capitol Hill riots, and is seeking the public's help to identify them. It has been two months since violent extremists...
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March 19th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov pleaded guilty in federal court on March 18 for conspiring to travel to the U.S. to recruit an employee of a Nevada company into a scheme to introduce malicious software into the company’s computer network. Kriuchkov,...
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March 19th, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy Charlotte Spencer Sometimes the paperwork involved in bringing on a new hire can seem like a mere formality that you don’t want to spend time and money on. Recent court cases, however, demonstrate just how risky it can be to skip...
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March 18th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu More than $4 billion was lost to Internet Crime in 2020 and nearly 800,000 cases were investigated, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in its annual Internet Crime Report. The top three crimes reported in 2020 were phishing scams,...
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March 18th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Charlotte Spencer Congress has had several new bills proposed so far this year to address the issue of prison reform. Together, they cover the topics of youthful offenders, nonviolent offenders, elderly offenders, Covid-19, solitary confinement, monitoring of electronic communications, re-entry into...
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March 17th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica Staffer Image Source: Screengrab from the FBI's latest quarterly Uniform Crime Report showing the percentage increase/decrease in all violent crimes reported, over four consecutive quarters. On March 15, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published its latest quarterly assessment...
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March 16th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu The Federal Bureau of Investigation found that Anthony Quinn Warner acted alone in the Christmas day bombing in downtown Nashville. Investigations revealed that Warner was motivated by a desire to kill himself, and it was not an act related to...
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March 16th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Michael P. Johnson March 11, 2021, marked the 1st anniversary of Covid-19 being labeled a "pandemic." A year ago, the casino industry was turned on its ear, having to shut down. Looking back on it now, as a casino professional with...
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March 15th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) published a new report last month with annual insights from its examinations and risk monitoring programs. The report is aimed at helping inform compliance programs at member firms of areas of importance....
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March 12th, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy a Biometrica staffer Employers of all stripes, private corporations, NGOs, public agencies, schools, colleges, hospitals, delivery services, home health care providers, political campaigns, even religious organizations, use background screening reports to make a determination on potential or current employees, contractors, volunteers...
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March 12th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Authorities in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands have enabled major interventions to block the use of encrypted communications by large-scale organized crime groups. Judicial and law enforcement authorities from these countries worked closely with each other, supported by...
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March 11th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Charlotte Spencer As of March this year, there are already several bills proposed in the area of crime, prison, and law enforcement. These bills cover a wide range of topics including hate crimes, the death penalty, solitary confinement, mental health, parenthood...
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March 11th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Michael David Miller of southwestern Missouri was sentenced on March 9 to 20 years without parole, for using a social media app to contact 12- and 13-year-old girls in Canada and induce them to engage in sexually explicit...
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March 10th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released new footage on March 9 seeking information from the public in identifying a man who placed pipe bombs near the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters and Republican National Committee (RNC) headquarters on...
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March 10th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Kevin Metcalf The community of people that works on child protection is a wonderfully disparate one. There are people in law enforcement, for instance, here in the United States and elsewhere, who have willingly dedicated themselves to seeing the worst of...
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March 9th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu Nearly five million counterfeit toys were seized by Europol as a result of operation LUDUS, which ran from Oct. 19 2020 to Jan. 31 2021, the holiday season and the period in which toy sales are traditionally highest due...
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March 9th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBeing a casino operations manager isn’t for just anyone. You need a combination of management skills, an attention to detail, be part regulatory maven, part staffing expert and part magician. One of the hardest jobs on the books is to vet and...
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March 8th, 2021category: Feature Stories
By a Biometrica staffer Image Source: UNODC, based on the GLOTiP report One hundred and nineteen. That's the number of countries across the world that have never had a female leader. Women serve as heads of State or Government in just 21...
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March 8th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu Police in Aurora, Colorado, said the southbound interstate 225 was intentionally blocked by 600 to 800 vehicles while street racing took place and weapons were waved. The incident occurred at night on March 7, according to a report on Fox...