The NYPD’s high-tech fingerprint database was temporarily brought down by a bumbling contractor with a virus-infected mini computer, The Post has learned. A contractor was setting up a digital display ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Until recently, New York City police secretly kept fingerprints of children arrested as juveniles on file permanently in a department database — an illegal practice that has raised ...

The effectiveness of DNA testing and searches of the national DNA database is well-known. Over the last three decades, 137 wrongly convicted people were exonerated through DNA database “hits,” which ...

A newly annotated fingerprint dataset combined with open-source software could help forensic examiners work more consistently ...

Police collect their officers' DNA to ensure they do not contaminate crime scenes The Metropolitan Police is still missing nearly half of its officers' DNA from its database, and more than a fifth of ...

A publicly accessible database exposed the fingerprints and facial recognition information of millions, thrusting biometrics security into the spotlight once again. Researchers discovered the personal ...

Connecticut is now one of the first states in the nation with the ability to check fingerprints lifted at a crime scene against the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Integrated Automated Fingerprint ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A database of finger and palm prints used by law enforcement and child welfare workers is in danger of failing and needs to be replaced, a Kansas Bureau of Investigation official ...

At the Portland Police Bureau's North Precinct, Officer Jason Hubert is getting ready to fire a confiscated handgun into a thick metal bullet trap filled a thick sludge called snake oil. He's about to ...

Snagging a perpetrator just became a lot faster in Canyon and the surrounding area. At their July 1 meeting, the Canyon City Commission passed an interlocal agreement with the City of Amarillo to ...