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By a Biometrica staffer London in the late 17th and 18th centuries was a rather challenging place to live in, going by one specific measure: the presence of gangs. Certain parts of the city had gained such notoriety as hotbeds of crime...

By a Biometrica staffer This midterm election season, along with the state of the economy, the country's crime rate has been under the scanner. Forty percent of U.S. registered voters said crime is an extremely important issue when it comes to their...

By a Biometrica staffer In Portsmouth, Virginia, the local police department and the Up Center are reaching out to the public as they seek mentors to help steer youth in the right direction. The two organizations have come together due to an...

By a Biometrica staffer Gang activity in the United States is said to have declined in the mid-1990s to 2000. But between 2001 and 2005, it increased again and stayed constant until around 2012, per government estimates. From around 2002-2012 annual estimates...

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...

By Kadambari M. Wade On Oct. 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival from the 32nd Floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. One nondescript killer, a man who fit no known profile of a mass murderer,...

Above: Chris James addresses the Reservation Economic Summit (RES) in Las Vegas in March 2018; photo courtesy NCAIED. Note: This is the first in a series of "Conversations across Communities," which will touch upon various aspects of security, surveillance, law enforcement, intelligence, crime,...

An Indian soldier on the India-Pakistan Line of Control in Kashmir. Picture © Oleg Doroshenko | Dreamstime.com For far too long, too many soldiers, paramilitary forces, and other security personnel have died because of a lack of planning or foresight. While there are any...

Everybody gets email, all the time. Copyright Vkraskouski | Dreamstime.com By Kevin King According to reports, people across the world will send and receive 269 billion emails in 2017. Internet Live Stats, which is the accepted global standard for such matters, and part...

When dealing with a gunman, try and find cover. © Nyul | Dreamstime.com By Colonel Sushil Kumar Singh (Ret.) Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. - Miguel de Cervantes If someone tells you they felt no fear or unease when...

(Above: Donald Trump on the campaign trail in Gettysburg. © Georgesheldon | Dreamstime.com) In a rapidly evolving, technology-driven environment, where the IoT is a way of life, the incoming administration faces a number of new challenges, especially from a security perspective. Here...

The 5 Real World Things You Really Do Have To Keep In Mind To Secure Your Virtual World: Verify Credentials, Have Pinch Point Admission, Validate Vendors, Implement Physical Access Protocols To Devices, and Be Able To Trust Your Staff In the aftermath...

[Pictured above: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where TDG is supplying Smart Cities Designs and Solutions as part of the Saudi Arabian National Transformation Programme, also known as Vision 2030, as viewed from space by moonlight; Picture © Anartis | Dreamstime.com, with...

(Above: The initial conceptual master plan for Kingdom City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; courtesy Paul Doherty.) By Kadambari M. Wade Architect. Innovator. Integrator. Traveler. Paul Doherty, President & CEO of TDG [The Digit Group, Inc.], is one of the world’s foremost authorities on...

By The Biometrica Blog Team This case study examines how members of an England-based gang of Turkish-origin poker cheats, found guilty of a ‘conspiracy to cheat’ earlier this year in London, had been spotted on several occasions operating in the United States over...

By The Biometrica Blog Team Butch Pracale, the Director of Surveillance at the Four Queens Resort and Casino doesn’t like to share information. “I’m paranoid,” he laughs. “I watch out for the bad guys.” He’s done just this — looking out for...

By Colonel Sushil Kumar Singh In the 2003 historical epic, The Last Samurai, a striking conversation plays out between Ken Watanabe’s Katsumoto (the Samurai lord) and Capt. Nathan Algren, the war hero turned wastrel turned Japanese Imperial Army trainer. Algren, played by...

By Wyly Wade Last month, NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, released an initial version of a framework of standards to help developers of cyber-physical systems (CPS) build cybersecurity and privacy into their designs. This week, NIST announced that their Smart Grid Advisory Committee...