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  • Photo of Coal Mine Canyon on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona | Photo by John Fowler on Unsplash

    Inmate Population In Indian Country Jails Increased 8% At Mid-2021

    September 1st, 2022
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer The inmate population at Indian country jails increased 8% at midyear 2021 to a total of 2,180 inmates held in 80 jails, from the 2,020 inmates held in 82 facilities at midyear 2020, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)...

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    The Impact Of ‘Deepfake’ On Child Safety

    February 1st, 2022
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer There's no doubt that combating child sex abuse material (CSAM) is a serious challenge that law enforcement officers, parents, caregivers, and various others involved in or concerned about child safety and protection face. Sample this: Of the 21.7+...

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    The Year Of The Big Casino & Gaming Rebound

    December 23rd, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer When 2021 began, it was not a Covid-19-free world as many had hoped. For all of 2020 and several months into 2021, casinos across the country were either entirely closed or operating under capacity restrictions and other measures...

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  • Airport Screenings Rebound Close To Pre-Pandemic Levels During Thanksgiving: TSA Data

    November 29th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Around 2.31 million passengers passed through airport screenings last Wednesday, Nov. 24, the day before Thanksgiving, according to data from the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA). That's over double when compared with the 1.07 million people who went through...

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  • Nurses More Likely To Have Suicidal Thoughts Than Other Workers: Study

    October 25th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Nurses in the United States experience suicidal thoughts "in greater numbers" than other general workers, a study published in the American Journal of Nursing said. Among nurses, those who do have suicidal thoughts are also less likely to...

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  • Prison Staff Death Toll Spiked In Texas After Covid-19 Protocols Were Relaxed

    October 8th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer September became the deadliest month for employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice since the Covid-19 pandemic began, even as coronavirus fatalities dropped across the state, a Dallas Morning News report said. Covid-19 led to the death...

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    Law Enforcement Line-Of-Duty Deaths Could Hit Grim Peak In 2021: Report

    September 22nd, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer As of June 30, 2021, 155 federal, state, tribal, and local law enforcement officers (LEOs) died in the line of duty, according to preliminary data compiled by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF). That's roughly a...

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  • Representative photo of Covid-19 vaccine vials | Photo by Braňo on Unsplash

    ‘Criminals Don’t Take Breaks’ — The Impact Of Covid-19 On Organized Crime

    September 20th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer In late 2020, much before anyone ever imagined that a deadlier variant of the Covid-19 virus would sweep across the world and wreak renewed havoc on healthcare and governance systems, organizations like the United Nations Office on Drugs...

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    The Dr. Lorna Breen Bill Addresses An Urgent Public Health Crisis: Healthcare Workers’ Wellbeing

    September 16th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Deepti Govind On Sept. 17, 2020, in recognition of National Physician Suicide Awareness Day, the Physicians Foundation published the alarming results of a new survey that found that nearly one in four physicians (22%) know another physician who has committed suicide,...

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    From Combating Hate To Gun Tracing: A Status Check Of Crime-Related Bills In 2021

    September 2nd, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer In March, Biometrica did a round-up of some of the key crime, prison, and law enforcement bills with most support in the House in 2021 up to that point. Today, we pick a few crime-related bills in the...

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    Drug Overdose Deaths: The Lethal Supply Behind A Worsening National Epidemic

    August 30th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Deepti Govind In July, the U.S. government reported that drug overdose deaths last year, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, soared nearly 30% to a record number of around 93,000. That's a massive spike from 2019's 72,000 drug overdose deaths,...

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  • There Have Been Over 9,000 Anti-Asian And Pacific Islander Hate Incidents Since Covid-19 Began

    August 13th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition, said it received 9,081 reports of hate incidents committed against the Asian Americans and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community since the Covid-19 pandemic began, i.e., between March 2020 and June 30, 2021. The...

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  • Sportsbooks Cross $300M In Operator Revenue For Just The Fourth Time Since Mid-2018

    August 10th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Monthly operator revenue at sportsbooks across the country came in at $318 million in June, the highest nationwide win rate for this year, and only the fourth time that the number has clocked in higher than $300 million...

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  • Nursing Home Covid-19 Cases Rose Sharply Last Week As Staff Vaccination Rates Still Lag

    August 6th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer The number of nursing home patients and staff infected with the Covid-19 virus rose sharply last week, at a time when the nation is reeling under the menace of the highly contagious delta variant and as total cases...

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  • ‘Long Covid’ Is Now A Protected Anti-Discriminatory Disability Under The ADA: What Does That Mean?

    July 27th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer On Monday, July 26, the United States government said it will not be lifting existing travel restrictions due to concerns over the highly transmissible delta variant of Covid-19 and the rising number of coronavirus cases in the country,...

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  • ‘Urgent And Overlooked’ Side-Effect Of Pandemic — Children Left Without A Caregiver Due To Covid-19

    July 26th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Last week, a coalition of researchers from organizations including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the UN’s World Health Organization, and the World Bank published a report in the medical journal Lancet, in which it was...

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    Jihadist Terrorism Remained The Greatest Threat To The EU In 2020: Europol

    June 30th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer This time last week, we established that yes, terror groups were very much active during 2020, even when much of the world was closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, as the Europol Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2021...

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    29 Million Healthcare Records Were Compromised In 2020, But You Can’t Protect Your Cyber World If You Leave Your Real World Unsecured

    April 16th, 2021
    category: Background Check ABCs

    By Wyly Wade Section 13402(e)(4) of the HITECH Act requires the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights, to post notice of any breach of unsecured protected health information that affects 500 or more individuals. According to...

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  • Nevada Casinos That Want To Operate At Higher Capacity Must Encourage Staff To Take Covid-19 Vaccine

    April 5th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By 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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    Looking Back: Life In Limbo, The Covid-19 Blues, Change & Resilience As A Casino Employee

    March 16th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By 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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  • Trio Charged For Offering Covid-19 Vaccine On Fake Site

    February 15th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Anand Vasu Olakitan Oluwalade, his cousin Odunayo Baba Oluwalade and Kelly Lamont Williams were arrested after the HSI Intellectual Property Rights Center and the HSI Cyber Crimes Center became aware of a fraudulent replication of the website of Company 1, a biotechnology company based in...

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  • Man Bought Lamborghini With Money He Got Defrauding PPP

    February 11th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer David T Hines of Miami fraudulently obtained $3.9m in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and used part of these funds to buy himself a Lamborghini Huracan sports car worth $318,000. At the time of his arrest, the car...

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  • People from Jovi's Diner react in delight on Zoom as the business owner, Jovanna Rodriguez, receives her check from San Manuel Tribal Chairman Ken Ramirez.

    A Grant From The Heart, The San Manuel Way

    February 9th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    50 Small Businesses Receive $20,000 Grants Each In Partnership With IEEP Some of the business owners that were among the 50 chosen for the San Manuel-IEEP grants watch on Zoom while the grants are announced.  All images in this post are courtesy of the...

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  • Scammers Wasted No Time During Pandemic, FTC data shows

    February 4th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer If you think scammers also took a break during the Covid-19 pandemic, think again! On Feb. 4, the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) said it received more than 2.1 million fraud reports from consumers in 2020. Imposter scams were...

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    Casino Tuesday: State Of The States

    February 2nd, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Deepti Govind Map courtesy of the Casino City Press Gaming Directory, which can be accessed here. You can change the date on the map above to see openings at any given time. The $261 billion U.S. casino and gaming industry may...

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  • Interpol issues global alert on mafia threat to covid-19 vaccine

    December 2nd, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Interpol issued a global alert to law enforcement across its 194 member countries warning them to gear up for organized crime networks targeting covid-19 vaccines. The group’s Orange Notice warned the international community to prepare for possible infiltration...

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  • Texas woman charged for $1.9 mln covid-relief fraud

    September 15th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer A Texan woman has been taken into custody on allegations of defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of more than $1.9 million in forgivable loans, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. The Small Business Administration...

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  • NFL player charged in $24 mln covid-relief fraud scheme

    September 10th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Former New York Jets wide receiver Joshua J Bellamy was arrested in Florida and charged for his role in a scheme that involved defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The National Football League (NFL) player and his associates...

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  • Attorney charged for defrauding PPP of $9 mln

    September 3rd, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer An attorney from New Jersey was arrested on charges of defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) by obtaining about $9 million in loans, the US Department of Justice said in a statement.   Jae H. Choi, a licensed...

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  • Minnesota man charged with covid-19 relief fraud

    August 21st, 2020
    category: News Reports

    A Minnesota man was charged for defrauding the PPP of $841,000 | © Ossi Lehtonen - Dreamstime.com By a Biometrica staffer A man from Minnesota was charged for allegedly defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of about $841,000, the US Department of...

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  • Wynn Resorts closes its Yokohama, Japan, office

    August 3rd, 2020
    category: News Reports

    Wynn Resorts Ltd closed its office in Yokohama, Japan’s second largest city by population | © creativecommonsstockphotos - Dreamstime.com By a Biometrica staffer Wynn Resorts Ltd closed its office in Yokohama, Japan’s second largest city by population, due to delays in the...

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  • Older gamblers avoid Atlantic City casinos amid covid-19 pandemic

    July 31st, 2020
    category: News Reports

    The covid-19 pandemic has amplified the shift to younger visitors and non-gamblers in Atlantic City since gambling parlors re-opened in July | © Martin Allinger - Dreamstime.com By a Biometrica staffer Before the covid-19 pandemic, Atlantic City’s casinos were working toward expanding...

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