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NSW Police Body Cameras Will Start Recording the Moment a Weapon is Used
NSW Police officers will have their body-worn cameras set to auto record once a taser or pistol is used, the state’s Budget papers have revealed.
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U.S. Justice Department Admits: We Don’t Even Know How Many Predictive Policing Tools We’ve Funded
Several of the nation’s largest cities use federal tax dollars to fund the development of software promising to predict the locations of future crimes. They’ve done so for the better part of a decade. For the first time, though, the agency overseeing the distribution of that money has formally acknowledged it has little idea of…
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Investigators Can Now Work Out Your Eye Colour From DNA Left at a Crime Scene
The AFP are using a new tech that makes predictions of visual traits out of DNA. That is, it can determine stuff like your eye colour from DNA left behind.
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A Hacked Together ‘Game Boy’ Was Used To Steal Cars in the UK
‘Piracy. It’s a crime.’, but so is stealing cars, and turns out three men in the UK didn’t get the 2004 PSA. They were charged this week with using a Nintendo Game Boy ‘gizmo’ to break into cars. They didn’t use a Game Boy in place of a brick to smash windows with it, no,…