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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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  • Representative photo of a lit up Las Vegas | Photo by Stephen Leonardi on Unsplash

    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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  • Image of a young toddler sitting with a stuffed teddy bear on a wood surface

    A Look-Back At Issues Of Child Safety And Protection In 2021

    December 23rd, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer At Biometrica, the safety of children has always been a priority. This year, amidst general chaos and anxiety, the safety of children took center stage like never before. Here are some of the relevant issues and news stories...

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  • Gaming Industry Revenue Reaches Record Level In 2021, Vegas Police Crack Down On Crime

    December 13th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer The last few days have brought a mixed bag of news for the casino industry, with extremely positive tidings on the gaming revenue front, and less positive reflections on the crime front. Even with two months still to...

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  • Adolescents’ Mental Health Deteriorated In 2020, While ‘Hostile Behaviors’ At School Jumped Pre-Pandemic: Reports

    December 8th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Two reports released recently draw attention to a mental health crisis plaguing schools and students in the U.S. One is an advisory issued by the Surgeon General, which warns that “symptoms of anxiety, depression and other mental health...

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  • Billions Of Dollars In Taxpayer Money Could Be Recovered; Lax Child Protection In CO, MO: HHS Report

    December 7th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Last week, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its Fall Semiannual Report to Congress, in which it was found that the efforts of the HHS in the 2021...

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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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    How Covid-19 Has Impacted The Already Strained Child Welfare System

    November 17th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Aara Ramesh Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the child welfare system was rife with gaps that made children in foster care extra susceptible to abuse. Like with many other societal problems, however, the pandemic only worsened that situation on a number...

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  • FBI Updates 2020 Hate Crime Statistics After Minor Technical Error

    October 26th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Due to a small technical issue that omitted part of the data submission from the state of Ohio, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has updated and re-released its statistics on hate crimes and bias-motivated incidents in 2020....

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    911 Operators — First Of The First Responders

    October 25th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer October 28 marks National First Responders Day in many parts of the country — a day that is meant to celebrate the many hundreds of thousands of people that make up the fabric of the emergency response system...

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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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  • Inmate Population In Indian Country Jails Declined 30% At Mid-2020 Due To The Pandemic

    October 22nd, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer The inmate population at Indian country jails fell 30% at mid-year 2020 to a total of 2,020 inmates held in 82 jails, from 2,890 inmates held in 83 facilities at mid-year 2019, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)...

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    More Law Enforcement Officers Are Being Assaulted, Injured, Or Killed On The Job

    October 19th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Biometrica staffer On Monday, Oct. 18, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) released the last of its Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) dataset for 2020, reporting that 60,105 law enforcement officers (LEOs) were assaulted while on the job last...

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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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  • Grayscale image of a boy from a distance watching a man another boy walking on a pier.

    Gaps In An Overburdened System Mean That Children In Foster Care Are Too Susceptible To Abuse

    October 1st, 2021
    category: Background Check ABCs

    By Aara Ramesh A year ago, last October, USA TODAY reported in a bombshell investigation that a foster father in Florida had been arrested in 2019 and had pleaded guilty to charges for rape, molestation, and producing and consuming child sexual abuse...

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  • The CDC Is Funding Research Into The Gun Violence Public Health Crisis For The First Time In A Quarter Century

    September 30th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer With the Covid-19 virus and vaccines having underscored the importance and strategic role played by objective scientific research, many, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, are saying it’s time for us...

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  • Majority Of People Worldwide Vulnerable To Organized Crime, Warns Global Organized Crime Index

    September 29th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer The Global Organized Crime Index paints a "worrying picture of the reach, scale and impact of organized crime in 2020." The data driven analytics tool evaluated 193 United Nations member states. The 2020 report, the first published by Global Initiative,...

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  • Representative photo of an NYPD vehicle behind a police "Do not cross" yellow line | Photo by Campbell Jensen on Unsplash

    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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    ‘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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  • Representative photo of a counselling session | Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

    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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  • Healthcare Workers Go From Being Lauded To Being Subjected To Workplace Violence And Harassment

    September 3rd, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Healthcare workers in the U. S., hailed as heroes at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, have become — over the last several months — the targets of a disgruntled public. The hostility against workers administering Covid-19 vaccines...

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  • Representative photo of the U.S. Capitol | Photo by Don Shin on Unsplash

    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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  • Representative photo showing bottles of drugs, and a syringe | Photo by Michael Longmire on Unsplash

    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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  • ‘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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  • Representative image of the torso of a man dressed in black, wearing gloves and holding a sharp knife

    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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  • Representative image of a masked man golding a rifle

    Like The Rest Of The World, Terror Groups Moved Online In 2020: Europol

    June 23rd, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Deepti Govind Despite the Covid-19 pandemic leading to travel bans and restrictions world over in 2020, a new Europol report shows that in the European Union (EU), at least, terrorists were still very much active during the year. Like the rest...

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  • Image depicts three children at a camp in Pakistan, walking and playing. Representative image by David Mark from Pixabay

    Forcibly Displaced People Now Represent 1% Of The World’s Population — What Does That Mean?

    June 21st, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Aara Ramesh Despite many countries closing their borders and restricting travel during the Covid-19 pandemic, the United Nations (UN) has said that the plight of refugees and asylum-seekers actually worsened in 2020. As of the end of the year, over 82.4...

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  • The UN Says The Number Of Children Forced Into Labor Increased Last Year For The First Time In Two Decades

    June 11th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer In what was supposed to be the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, a joint report published by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has sounded an urgent alarm over...

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  • INTERPOL Takes Down Record Number Of Fake Online Pharmacies Looking To Cash In On Pandemic

    June 10th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer INTERPOL announced on June 8 that it had succeeded in taking down a “record number” of fraudulent online pharmacies and arresting 277 people worldwide with the help of law enforcement, customs and health regulatory authorities in 92 countries....

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  • ‘Bright Light City Gonna Set My Soul On Fire’ — Vegas Is Bouncing Back Strong

    June 7th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Aara Ramesh As of June 1, downtown Vegas is completely open for the first time in over twelve months and the buzz is almost palpable. Already, live music has returned to the Strip. Casinos are taking down plexiglass dividers and are...

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  • US Traffic Fatalities Hit 13-Year High In 2020, Largely Due To DUIs/DWIs, Not Wearing Seatbelts and Speeding

    June 4th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer On Thursday, June 3, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced that preliminary data seems to indicate that U.S. traffic deaths shot up by 7.2% in 2020 (as compared to 2019), despite the pandemic and associated lockdowns...

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  • Porcupine quills that were seized at Dulles Airport by agriculture specialists from the Customs and Border Protection.

    CBP Seizes Porcupine Quills At Dulles, After CDC Sounds Monkeypox Virus Alert

    May 3rd, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica Staffer The middle of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic is probably not the time to have to worry about another potential virus outbreak, but that’s exactly what the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) agriculture specialists had to deal with in...

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  • A map of 2017 National Filings of Casino/Card Club Suspicious Activity Reports, according to the FinCEN.

    Trending Back To Business? Suspicious Activity Reports For Casinos Spike In Q1 2021 After 2020 Decline

    April 20th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica Staffer According to the American Gaming Association’s (AGA) Commercial Gaming Revenue Tracker, 2020, the year that life came to a virtual standstill on account of the coronavirus pandemic, marked the first market contraction for the U.S. gaming industry since 2014...

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  • Image of a casino floor © Tupungato | Dreamstime.com

    Getting Back To Business: How Casino Ops Are Focusing On Employee And Public Safety

    March 30th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By 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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    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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  • 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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  • Representative photo of casino games

    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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  • 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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