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  • Photo of a school classroom shot from behind, showing rows of students. | Photo by Taylor Flowe on Unsplash

    Spotlight: The Worrying Spike In School Shootings Across America

    October 28th, 2022
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer No matter what database you look at, the stats on school shootings in the United States in recent times should be cause for worry for anyone with any interest in child safety and child protection. After the latest...

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    129 Law Enforcement Officers Lost Their Lives In The Line-Of-Duty In 2021: FBI

    August 12th, 2022
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer On Thursday, Aug. 11, an armed man clad in body armor tried to breach the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI's) Cincinnati office. The confrontation that ensued between him and law enforcement officers (LEOs) came as officials warned of...

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    Why Is Organized Retail Crime On The Rise?

    June 16th, 2022
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer Is Organized Retail Crime (ORC) really a cause for concern? Isn't it a victimless crime, as many perceive? The answer to the first question is an emphatic yes, while the answer to the second is an equally clear...

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    Cracking Down On Organized Retail Crime: Where Does The Financial Sector Come In?

    June 9th, 2022
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer Late last November, about 80 people barged into a Nordstrom department store in the East Bay Area city of Walnut Creek in California, stealing merchandise until police arrived and arrested three of them. That was but one of...

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  • A police car parked on the side of the road, shot in low light | Photo by Josh Couch on Unsplash

    Snapshot: FBI’s National Use-Of-Force Data

    June 2nd, 2022
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer On May 31, Tuesday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program published the National Use-of-Force Data Collection's report for 2021 and some data for the first quarter of this year. Per the report, 50.7% of...

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  • Person whose face is hidden walking on a narrow pathway amidst shadows | Photo by Rene Böhmer on Unsplash

    Millions Of Americans Are Victims Of Stalking Each Year

    February 22nd, 2022
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer An estimated 3.4 million U.S. residents aged 16 or older were victims of stalking in 2019, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) said in its Stalking Victimization report published this month. That estimated number amounts to around 1.3%...

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  • Representative photo of a crime scene | Photo by Faruk Tokluoğlu from Pexels

    Crimes Against Property Remained Most Reported Major Criminal Offense Category In 2020: NIBRS Data

    December 7th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer On Monday, Dec. 6, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published data on nearly 8.9 million criminal offenses reported via the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) in 2020. Of the total 8,879,728 offenses reported in 7,560,867 incidents, 60.5%...

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  • Image courtesy: FBI | The practical training area for the ERT (Evidence Response Team) Basic Course. The practical training area allows students to process scenes within actual houses. The ovens work, the ceiling fans turn, and there are secret nooks and hiding spots that students must find.

    What It Takes To Be Part Of The FBI’s Evidence Response Teams

    November 24th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Deepti Govind April 3, 2021 marked 25 years since the capture of the notorious domestic terror actor, Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber. Kaczynski was active for nearly two decades, but managed to evade arrest because he was meticulous...

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  • SUV Drives Into Christmas Parade In Suburban WI, Killing Five And Injuring At Least 40 Others

    November 22nd, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer An SUV barrelled through barricades and drove through a Christmas parade in Waukesha (a suburban town just 20 miles from Milwaukee, Wisconsin) in the early evening of Sunday, Nov. 21, killing at least five and injuring over 40...

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  • Representative photo of a hooded person in a dark alley | Photo by Isaac Weatherly from Pexels

    How Schools Can Help Curb Violence Among Youth

    November 22nd, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    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...

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  • Justice Department Announces $139 Million In Grants To Advance Community Policing

    November 18th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced more than $139 million in grant funding through the department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The awards provide direct funding to 183 law enforcement agencies...

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    How The ‘Black Sox’ Match-Fixing Scandal Changed Baseball Forever

    November 9th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Aara Ramesh In an earlier story in this series on sports betting, we wrote about how just as there have been wagers (legal or otherwise) placed on sporting outcomes as long as there have been sports, match-fixing has existed just as...

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    Surface Transport Terror Threats: ‘Soft’ Targets, Hard Security Challenge

    November 8th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Deepti Govind We set the stage in a piece published about two weeks ago, on examining the kind of threats surface transportation around the world has faced from terror actors over time. To quickly recap what we said then: While the...

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  • From Shootings To Vandalism And Cyber Threats: A Round-Up Of Crimes On Casino Property Over The Weekend

    November 8th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Casino news from the weekend includes reports of shootings and other crimes on properties, and a cyber crime warning. On Saturday, Nov. 6, a shooter fatally wounded two people before turning the gun on himself at Stateline Casino...

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    How To Protect Yourself From Cybercrimes: An Introduction

    November 5th, 2021
    category: Background Check ABCs

    By a Biometric staffer Only yesterday, Nov. 4., we wrote about how the Justice Department had said in an interview with the Associated Press that they are stepping up firepower in the battle against ransomware attacks and cybercrime. The number of cybercrime...

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    Looking Further At Campus Police And Their Role In Tracking Violent Crime

    November 4th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer In 2019, the last year for which data is available, a total of 5,998 post-secondary institutions (across almost 11,000 campuses) reported 34,933 criminal offenses to the federal government, and 17,758 offenses related to violence against women, be that...

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  • 20,160 People Estimated Dead In Motor Vehicle Crashes In H1 2021 — The Highest It’s Been Since 2006

    November 1st, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Early estimates of traffic fatalities for the first half of 2021 show that an estimated 20,160 people died due to motor vehicle crashes, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Transport's (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety...

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  • Cultural Property Crime Thrived During The Covid-19 Pandemic: INTERPOL

    October 19th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Cultural property crime continued unabated throughout the global Covid-19 pandemic, and in some cases even surged to new heights, according to INTERPOL’s 2020 Assessing Crimes Against Cultural Property survey findings. In the Americas, the number of offences reported...

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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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  • DOJ Announces $7M In Funding For Mental Health And Wellness Programs For Law Enforcement Officers

    October 15th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Biometrica staffer On Thursday, Oct. 14, officials with the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it would be handing out 65 grants, totaling $7 million, to the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (LEMHWA) program. The announcement was made at...

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    The Legislative Link Between Campus Police And Local Law Enforcement In California

    October 14th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Biometrica staffer Over Memorial Day weekend in 1996, Kristin Denise Smart, a freshman at California Polytechnic (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo, mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night when she was walking back to her dormitory after a party....

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  • Representative photo of a police car on a street | Photo by Matt Popovich on Unsplash

    Community Policing: An Introduction

    October 13th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer A majority of contacts between law enforcement officers (LEO) and the public only happens during emergencies, or situations that are highly charged and emotional. But these are not the most ideal circumstances for LEOs and the community they...

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  • Image of a truck driving down a highway

    How Truckers Might Be Uniquely Positioned To Help Law Enforcement Fight Human Trafficking

    October 4th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer Early in 2015, Kevin Kimmel, a driver with Con-way Truckload, pulled into a truck stop in Virginia, hoping to catch some shut-eye. He happened to glance over at an RV and saw a “distraught-looking young girl” in the...

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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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  • Grizzly Scouts Members Admit To Destroying Evidence In Killing Of A Federal Officer

    September 21st, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Evidence in the alleged murder of a federal security officer in Oakland was destroyed by four Northern California members affiliated with the far right boogaloo movement, authorities said on Sep. 20. Jessie Rush, Robert Blancas, Simon Ybarra and...

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  • Representative photo of a single white rose on the 9/11 victims' memorial slab | Photo by Ged Lawson on Unsplash

    Lone Wolf Terrorism: The Greatest Domestic Terror Threat Today

    September 10th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Deepti Govind When one talks of a terror attack, people are most likely to conjure up images of a group of masked assailants, with some kind of weaponry, hijacking a plane. That’s the lasting effect that images and videos of the...

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  • An emergency worker walks amid the rubble of the World Trade Center in Manhattan after the September 11, 2001, attacks | Image Courtesy: FBI

    ‘First In, Last Out’ — The Enduring Impact Of 9/11 On First Responders

    September 7th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Aara Ramesh In and among the 2,996 people who died at the World Trade Center (WTC) on September 11, 2001, were 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York City police officers, and 37 Port Authority police officers. They were just a...

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  • Representative photo of a dog behind bars | Photo by Valerie Blanchett on Unsplash

    The Insidious Link Between Animal Cruelty And Violent Crimes Against Humans

    August 18th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Deepti Govind Historically, animal cruelty was considered an isolated issue — one that didn't really harm the human population. As a result, perhaps, the process of recognizing animal cruelty as a serious violent offense in and of itself developed only slowly...

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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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  • Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed So Far In 2021 Almost At Par With 2020’s Total Count

    August 12th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer In the first seven months of 2021, there were 44 law enforcement officers (LEOs) who were feloniously killed. That number is just two away from the 46 officers who were reported as being killed feloniously in all of...

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  • Two More Officers Who Responded To Capitol Hill Riot Dead From Apparent Suicide

    August 3rd, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Deepti Govind It was just last Tuesday, July 28, that the House select committee formed to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol convened its first hearing. At that hearing, the entire nation heard the emotional testimony of four...

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  • Representative image of a lonely child sitting on a bench at sunset | Photo by Arek Socha | Pixabay

    ‘A Missing Kid Is Never Forgotten. No Matter How Long They’ve Been Gone’: How The FBI Handles Missing Children Cases

    June 28th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Deepti Govind Child abductions are, thankfully, rare in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in its "Inside the FBI" podcast on May 25, Missing Children's Day. But when it does happen, the statistics tell a terrifying story:...

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  • LEOs Worry Over Surge In Mass Shootings Across The Nation Ahead Of Habitual Summer Spike In Crime

    June 14th, 2021
    category: 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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  • The thin blue line flag on a map of Arizona. © Karenr | Dreamstime.com

    Community Matters: We Are Your Police Officers. You Matter & So Do We

    May 5th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Mark Pooley June 1, 2018 was a day I’ll never forget. That was the day I received my cancer diagnosis for something called multiple myeloma, an uncommon kind of blood cancer in which a group of cancerous plasma cells eat away...

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  • Felonious Acts Led To The Death Of 46 LEOs In 2020, Shows FBI Data

    May 4th, 2021
    category: 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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  • Video Sheds Fresh Light On Officer Shot And Killed In Line Of Duty

    April 12th, 2021
    category: 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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  • Representative photo of a prisoner © Popa Sorin | Dreamstime.com

    Top Crime, Prison, and Law Enforcement Bills with Most Support in the House in 2021

    March 11th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By 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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  • Capitol Hill siege: Three charged for assaulting federal officers

    January 26th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer January 26, 2021 On Friday, three men were charged for their attacks on local and federal enforcement officers, and for other crimes they committed during the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Emanuel Jackson of D.C.,...

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  • US Capitol Hill police officer dies of injuries from riot

    January 8th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer A US Capitol Police officer died from injuries sustained while physically engaging with rioters who descended on the Capitol the day before, the US Capitol Police (USCP) said in a statement. The officer, Brian D. Sicknick, was the...

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  • ICMEC & Biometrica Announce Collaboration To Help Find Missing Children, Using Biometrics And Real-Time Big Data To Help Track Abductors

    March 12th, 2019
    category: Press Releases

    eMotive, Biometrica’s multi-jurisdictional 24x7 continuous criminal background checking software, is one of 4 key components of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children’s new GMCNgine™ , a secure global platform to help locate missing children, including those vulnerable to exploitation, sexual...

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  • For NCMEC’s Forensic Artists, Every Face Tells A Story, Every Child Has A Name

    For NCMEC’s Forensic Artists, Every Face Tells A Story, Every Child Has A Name

    September 30th, 2018
    category: Feature Stories

    Above: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children forensic artists, Colin McNally and Joe Mullins, at work in Alexandria, Virginia. Mullins is holding 3D prints of skulls. Photo credit: NCMEC Senior Multimedia Editor Sarah Baker, courtesy NCMEC By Kadambari M. Wade Nestled...

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  • An Odyssey: Tracking The Sex Offenders That Live Among Us & Securing Our Communities

    An Odyssey: Tracking The Sex Offenders That Live Among Us & Securing Our Communities

    September 24th, 2018
    category: Feature Stories

    This artwork, in the image of 8-year-old Ryan VanLuchene doing what he loved best, being outdoors, was created especially for us by Germany-based Indian photographer and artist, Priyanka Oberoi. Her work can be found here. By Derek VanLuchene, with Nadia Eley On...

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  • With Focus On Missing Persons, National Criminal Justice Training Center And Biometrica Announce Four-Part Expert Series on Security And Public Safety

    September 13th, 2018
    category: Press Releases

    Running from mid-September to Oct. 1, the one-year anniversary of the Las Vegas shooting, each piece focuses on an aspect of law enforcement and other public safety response to missing persons and mass casualty incidents: Urban Search and Rescue; Forensic Imaging in Missing Children...

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  • Targeted, Taken, And Trafficked: An American Epidemic

    Targeted, Taken, And Trafficked: An American Epidemic

    September 19th, 2017
    category: Feature Stories

    Above: © Nomadsoul1 | Dreamstime; While young girls are predominant victims of trafficking, about 20% of victims are male. We have a problem — there’s just not enough comprehensive, substantive data. But depending on various accounts, between 100,000 to 1.5 million children are trafficked...

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