Articles tagged "law enforcement"

The legislation hardly feels up-to-date, using language like “electronic communication,” which elsewhere is defined by law as including pagers. (Remember those?)

So-called "predictive policing" isn't an exact science. But what if it could be?

Generally, my assumption of the ins and outs of crime scene forensics is a mythicism of field detectives performing high-tech feats in order to solve a mystery with some encrusted semen. I'd only expect that investigation units have access to some aw…

Skype, which has previously been one of the few untappable forms of communication out there, is now kowtowing to the Man and making chat records more available to authorities. Time to bring back the pager and pay phone combo, folks.

K2, Spice, 'plant food,' bath salts... keeping up with what's popular in the legal, synthetic drug world can be a real pain in the ass sometimes. The problem's especially difficult for law enforcement and regulators tasked with cracking down on drugs…