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Reason
January 2009
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Baloney Ballistics Gun databases fail. Devoting so much record keeping to every gun sold guarantees wasted effort, since less than 1 percent of all guns sold will ever be used in a crime.   |
Popular Mechanics
July 27, 2009
Brad Reagan |
The Truth About 4 Common Forensics Methods Room for doubt in deciphering the information in four important types of criminal evidence |
Salon.com
October 25, 2002
Arianna Huffington |
Will the NRA once again shoot down common-sense legislation? In the wake of the sniper attacks around Washington, the gun lobby remains unmoved by the case for ballistic fingerprinting. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2006
David Dobbs |
Forensics Under Fire The unparalleled accuracy of DNA analysis has forced traditional forensic science to stand trial. |
PC Magazine
September 6, 2005
David Murphy |
Real Time Against Crime While it doesn't quite match the centralized police systems seen in Judge Dredd and Minority Report, the New York Police Department's new $11 million Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) is one of the organization's largest technological leaps ever. |
BusinessWeek
July 22, 2010
Dina Bass |
Microsoft Crosses Swords with Pirates Microsoft employs digital forensics and other technologies to help law-enforcement authorities bust counterfeiter syndicates. |
Job Journal
October 28, 2007 |
Career Snapshot: Police Officer Police officers can be sure of steady demand for their courage and dedication. |
Reason
May 2005
Kohn et al. |
Straight Shooting on Gun Control A debate about gun control from four viewpoints. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Sweet & Cass |
How to Fight Crime in Real Time New York City's Real Time Crime Center enables officers to extract information from integrated databases and send it immediately to investigators in the field. Displays are tailored to the situation at hand. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2009
Brad Reagan |
CSI Myths: The Shaky Science Behind Forensics Bite marks, blood-splatter patterns, ballistics, and hair, fiber and handwriting analysis sound compelling in the courtroom, but much of the "science" behind forensic science rests on surprisingly shaky foundations. |
ifeminists
November 16, 2005
Wendy McElroy |
Girls, Get Your Guns Organizations dedicated to female gun ownership are spreading from well-established organizations like Second Amendment Sisters and Women and Guns to relatively new ones like Mother's Arms, which urges mothers to protect their children with armed force if necessary. |
Reason
July 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Drug Control Begets Gun Control The violence in Mexico is caused by prohibition, not firearms. |
Chemistry World
June 6, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Fingerprints Recovered From Wiped Metal Forensic scientists can now find fingerprints on metal surfaces that have been wiped clean. Scientists have developed a way of enhancing the patterns that fingerprint residues corrode in metal surfaces. |
Reason
November 2002
Joyce Lee Malcolm |
Gun Control's Twisted Outcome Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S. |
InternetNews
September 22, 2009 |
Canada Uses IBM BI Software to Fight Crime Edmonton police are the latest to use business intelligence apps to identify crime hot spots. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2002
Cliff Gromer |
Shooting Safe And Smart How many points for hitting the hill? The author gets some pointers from firearms expert Walt Rauch. |
AskMen.com
Moti Shapira |
How To: Buy A Gun If you are thinking about buying a gun, there are three main parameters by which to choose the most suitable model. |
Reason
June 2000
Kenneth Smith |
Loaded Coverage How the news media miss the mark on the gun issue. |
Salon.com
September 7, 2000
David Bowman |
The reasonable gun nut Denounced by the NRA, a historian talks about the myth of early American gun ownership and his own fascination with firearms. |
Reason
February 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Speak Softly and Carry a Concealed Handgun Would a nicer NRA be more effective? |
National Defense
October 2010
Eric Beidel |
Plastic Solution Blocks Guns From Firing A Train Safe device fits into the gun barrel, blocking the chamber and preventing a live round from being fired. |
Fast Company
February 2016
Darrell Hartman |
Can This High-Tech Gun Accessory Make Smart Guns A Reality? Though the idea of using technology to improve firearms safety has been around for decades, a forthcoming product offers hope that 2016 could be the breakthrough year for smart guns. |
Reason
February 2003 |
Letters Gun Control Twists... True Patriots... |
Reason
February 2005
Eric Dzinski |
Humanizing Gun Nuts In Shooters: Myths and Realities of America's Gun Cultures, anthropologist Abigail A. Kohn shoots down stereotypes about gun enthusiasts. |
CIO
February 15, 2004
Richard Pastore |
Taking IT to the Street How the Chicago Police Department used technology to fight crime and become the first Grand CIO Enterprise Value Award winner. |
| AskMen.com |
"Arrest Me!" A man rebuffed in an attempt to get arrested, finally got his wish when he went for an officer's handgun. |
ifeminists
April 15, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
War May Redefine Gun Control Despite the high emotions that surround war --- or perhaps because of them --- people are focusing again on "normal" life. But what is normal has shifted in ways both obvious and subtle. Consider how war has affected just one issue: the debate over gun control. |
Salon.com
May 15, 2001
Jake Tapper |
Playing both sides President Bush unveils a new gun program carefully crafted to appease both the NRA and gun control advocates... |
Information Today
December 15, 2015 |
Gale Debuts 19th-Century Crime and Punishment Collection Gale launched Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920, its new primary-source archive of more than 2 million pages of material on 19th-century history, literature, law, and criminal justice. |
ifeminists
May 5, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
Gun-Proof Your Children The basic question is whether private gun ownership is a Constitutional and individual right, or a reckless practice that endangers society and children. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
Gene Callahan & William Anderson |
The Roots of Racial Profiling Why are police targeting minorities for traffic stops? |
Popular Mechanics
February 18, 2010
Tyghe Trimble |
Can Sophisticated Mathematical Models Help Police Fight Crime? Is it possible to predict crimes from studying human behavior? A new paper from researchers at the University of California shows how mathematical modeling may soon lead to truly predictive police work. |
U.S. Banker
May 2011
Laura Thompson Osuri |
One Way to Cut Crime After too many robberies, Columbus Bank and Trust found a way to keep the police close and employees and customers feeling safe. |
BusinessWeek
May 20, 2010
Paul M. Barrett |
Why Gun Sales Are Faltering Gun fans are less anxious over the prospect of more gun control. That's bad for sales - though a modest uptick should follow. |
National Defense
March 2009
Magnuson & Rusling |
Noted Police Chief Slams Federal-Local Partnerships The man who led the local police response to the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon hopes the new administration does a better job of coordinating counterterrorism efforts with local law enforcement. |
Reason
May 2001
Abigail Kohn |
Their Aim Is True Taking stock of America's real gun culture... |
| AskMen.com |
To Protect, But Not To Serve Columbus, Ohio city council members are hearing complaints that police officers are saying citizens who are fed up with crime in their neighborhoods should move out. |
Wired
April 24, 2007
Tina Pittaway |
America's Most Wanted Home Videos Canadian police are using YouTube to post images of wanted criminals. |
