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June 16th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Deepti Govind "The true art in art theft is not in the stealing, it’s in the selling," Robert Wittman, who led the FBI’s Art Crime Team, told NBC News after the discovery of two stolen paintings by Dutch master Vincent van...
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June 15th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer It was in April that cybersecurity firm FireEye said on its Threat Research Blog that Chinese hackers suspected to be state-backed had exploited widely used networking devices for months to spy on dozens of high-value government, defense industry,...
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June 14th, 2021category: News Reports
By Deepti Govind Typically, it is the summer months that are the bloodiest in terms of mass shootings across the U.S. But what's worrying law enforcement officers (LEOs) particularly this year is the unrelenting surge in gun violence that began well before...
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June 11th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer Even one incident of mass violence at a school is one too many. Going by that metric, the United States has had far too many to ignore over the course of the last two decades: from Virginia to...
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June 10th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Charlotte Spencer The Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act (hereafter, the Act) is a relatively new law designed to help do exactly what its title suggests. The Act — S. 1536 — passed the House and Senate in 2017, and...
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June 9th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Deepti Govind Sometime between Friday night and Monday morning over this weekend, the Chabad on River synagogue was vandalized with a swastika and an antisemitic slur. A congregant found the hate symbols at 8 a.m. Monday, June 7, when they arrived early...
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June 8th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer On Monday, June 7, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued model legislation for states to use as a blueprint to create their own extreme risk protection order (or ERPO) gun removal laws — sometimes called "red flag" laws...
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June 7th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Deepti Govind Even in the bloody world of the most violent crimes, dogfighting is considered particularly heinous. Why? First, dogs used for fighting are brought up and trained in rather cruel ways. They are typically kept in isolation and spend most...
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June 2nd, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Jan Edwards May 25 was International Mission Children’s Day. Globally, more than one million children are reported missing every year. ICMEC considers any child under the age of 18 whose whereabouts are unknown to be “missing.” This includes children who have...
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June 1st, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer On Monday, May 31, the Center for The Defense of Children’s Rights, published a report in which it said it had uncovered a “disturbing pattern” of child sexual abuse at as many as 18 schools and childcare centers...
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May 28th, 2021category: News Reports
By Aara Ramesh As the dust settles, more details are emerging about the past of the gunman who killed nine people and then himself in San Jose on Wednesday, May 26, in what is the Bay Area’s deadliest mass shooting. Samuel Cassidy,...
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May 27th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Early morning on Wednesday, May 26, a gunman — identified as Sam Cassidy by media reports — opened fire at a public transit rail yard in San Jose, California. He ended up killing at least eight of his...
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May 26th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer Source: Screengrab from the DOJ-OJP report showing total juvenile arrests since 1980 In 2019, the number of arrests involving juveniles — persons younger than 18 — was estimated to be less than 700,000. That's the lowest level since...
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May 24th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer There were at least 12 mass shootings that took place between Friday night, May 21, and Sunday, May 23, in the U.S., CNN reported. According to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), the country has had 230 mass shootings in...
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May 20th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Charlotte Spencer On Monday May 17, 2021, the Supreme Court issued a ruling further clarifying fourth amendment rights. The Fourth Amendment, and the long history of case law surrounding it, deals with search and seizure, specifically when it is allowed, and...
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May 18th, 2021category: Feature Stories
By a Biometrica staffer The Covid-19 pandemic has, undoubtedly, disrupted everyone's lives across the world. Yet, most of us have managed to find a semblance of normal and continue to follow our routines. So, it would be folly to assume that criminal...
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President Biden Issues Directives On Securing Energy Supply Chains And Countering Ransomware Attacks
May 13th, 2021category: News ReportsBy Aara Ramesh The fallout of last week’s ransomware cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline continues. On Wednesday, May 12, the Biden–Harris administration announced that it was implementing an All-of-government plan to combat fuel shortages resulting from the attack, with the president also issuing...
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May 12th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Kacy Robinson Search dog handlers have a unique advantage simply because we have highly trained and very specialized canines to aid us in our work, but that doesn’t mean we can allow all the other skills we have spent decades gaining...
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May 11th, 2021category: News Reports
By Aara Ramesh On Monday, May 10, Europol released a new batch of photos as part of its “Trace an Object” program, an ongoing effort to solve child sexual abuse cold cases across the continent. In their public appeal, the agency said that they are particularly looking for details...
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May 10th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer Just last month, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said in a blog that over the last five years, ransomware has evolved from being "a threat to individual computers to posing a serious danger to corporate networks." Or, to put it...
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May 7th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Moises Alexis Reyes-Canales of Maryland pled guilty on May 6 to charges of conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise that involved the murder of one person and the attempted murder of two others in Annapolis. Reyes-Canales, 23, aka...
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May 6th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer If you recall, just over a week ago, we had written a piece on how organized crime groups (OCGs) managed to carve out a $2.6 billion cut in Italy’s strong tourism sector, based on an article by the Organized...
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May 5th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer In the last week or so of April, sentences were given out to various individuals who had committed drug-related crimes. Biometrica rounds up ten of those for you, based on statements published by the Department of Justice (DOJ)...
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May 4th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Image Source: FBI's Crime Data Explorer: LEOKA In March, just a day after a 21-year-old shooter opened fire at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, killing 10 people including a police officer, we examined the felony killings of American...
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May 3rd, 2021category: Feature Stories
By a Biometrica staffer In 2018, a total of 4,135 state prisoners died in publicly or privately operated prisons, and an additional 378 federal prisoners died in facilities operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), according to a report published by...
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April 29th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Charlotte Spencer It is estimated that more than 600,000 individuals go missing in the United States every year. While many of those missing are found relatively quickly, thousands disappear, for different reasons, whether by choice or not, for more than a year,...
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April 28th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Organized crime groups have managed to carve out a $2.6 billion cut in Italy's strong tourism sector, according to a recent report published by Italian think thank Demoskopika. While that revenue is split between three groups, one of...
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Abused, Intimidated By A Patient’s Husband, I Was Still Lucky. Other Doctors Or Nurses Might Not Be.
April 28th, 2021category: Feature StoriesA 2018 ACEP survey of 3,500 respondents, all ER physicians, found that one-third had been punched and spit upon. In 97% of these cases, a patient committed the physical assault, while 28% reported that a patient’s family member or friend was also...
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April 26th, 2021category: News ReportsBy a Biometrica Staffer If you talk to any investigator working in child protection, he or she would tell you it is a mentally, emotionally and physically exhausting job, because of the nature of often horrifying crimes they are constantly investigating, the...
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April 26th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer Four out of every five small and medium-sized (SME) companies in the world suffer from counterfeits and brand abuse on the internet, a study by the anti-piracy and brand protection company Smart Protection found. The trend among cybercriminals...
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April 23rd, 2021category: News ReportsBy Anand Vasu On April 22, five years to the day since eight members of the Rhoden family were shot and killed in four different locations in Pike County, Edward “Jake” Wagner pleaded guilty to the murders as emotional scenes engulfed the...
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April 22nd, 2021category: News ReportsBy Anand Vasu On April 21, the Manhattan District Attorney announced initiatives that would change the way cases with regards to prostitution and unlicensed massage would be prosecuted in the jurisdiction. District Attorney Cyrus R Vance Jr., who heads one of the...
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April 22nd, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Charlotte Spencer As of April, 2021, Congress is considering several different pieces of legislation which address hate crimes. Many of them focus on hate crimes directly. Others have a different focus, but also take on the subject of hate crimes. Here...
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April 21st, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu It took just a little over 10 hours of deliberations for the jurors in the trial of former policeman Derek Chauvin to bring an end to a courtroom drama that has gripped the world for the past three weeks....
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April 21st, 2021category: Feature StoriesIn 2020, just 5,030 of 18,514 law enforcement agencies active in the United States that year provided use-of-force data to the FBI between January and August (we do not have data details as yet for the period post August). In 2019, that number was marginally higher...
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April 20th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer On April 19, Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey signed a package of bills into law, with an aim of bettering the criminal justice system to make it more respectful and responsive to victims of sexual assault crimes....
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April 19th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Deepti Govind We are just about five months away from the 20th anniversary of the deadly 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Neither the United States, nor the rest of the world, is likely to forget...
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April 16th, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy 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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April 16th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned on April 16 that actors of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) were exploiting five known vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities listed by the FBI were: CVE-2018-13379 Fortinet FortiGate VPN CVE-2019-9670 Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite...
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April 15th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu Cornell D.A. Johnson, of Chicago, was sentenced to 45 years in prison on April 13 for producing child pornography involving multiple minors. Senior U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm called Johnson the “ringmaster” of the operation and said that...
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April 15th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Charlotte Spencer Years into the opioid epidemic, Congress is still working to find solutions that help society address this issue. This year several laws have been proposed already. They include laws focused on warning labels, patient education, healthcare worker education, healthcare...
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April 14th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Barbara Jean Wilson I was eight years old when my mother’s boyfriend, “Uncle Bob,” as he asked me to call him, touched me, and told me not to tell anyone. He said he was doing what he needed to make me...
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April 14th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu In their 2021 Serious and Organized Crime Threat Assessment, or SOCTA, Europol has identified the most serious threats posed by criminal organizations to individuals and businesses. The annual report, put together by Europol after analyzing data from law enforcement...
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April 13th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer On Monday, April 12, erstwhile and disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein made his appearance via video conference along with his attorneys at an extradition hearing. He was secretly indicted by a grand jury in Los Angeles a couple...
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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: 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 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...